The Imperial press., 1905-08-05
Poultry Raising as business

Those who have succeeded with poul- try are those who have overcome obsta- cles and battIed against and battered down opposition, unless there has been and odd genius or so in the country, who has grasped tue details and mas tered the difficulties ol the business i'll a marvelously- short time. One hears of such and occasionally reads of one such, but never Sees one. They are a. evasive ghosts, and perhaps as substan- tial.
 1 think protest against the false in- ducement offered by these glaring and sensational statements of immense gains from a small outlay of money should appear once in awhile in substantial agricultural papers, and the truth indi- cated that there is profit in poultry, as in other things when the business is handled properly and when good honest work and thought are expended upon 1t. Get-rich-quick schemes are elusive and delusive. If one person gets rich quick in some scheme or business put him down as genus, or the result as one of the 'fhappens' of life. It is not the rule with chickens, or oil, or railroads or newspapers, or even farming. Hard work, and hard thought, and plenty of it, both are the foundation of success. That is the price of it and many pay the price withoUt getting it. If one gets it without paying the price he is in class by himself and no guide to us ordinary mOTtals.
 Chickens certainly pay good profit, and invite culture from scores aI.d hun dreds who can raise few on small piece of land. More persons than now are in the business can advantageously undertake it. There is much of pleas ure in it, and plenty of work md abund ant opportunity to think. When one has acquired tine knowledge and the faculty of feeding and caring for two hundred hens he will be in receipt ot a modest income which will make the way of life easier. The road to this de- sirable result is that of slow, steady and continuous progress; and he who ob- tains possession Of two hundred hens aud knows how to take care of them | will have learned of some things that 1 newspaper, but which have been worn into him by the hard rubbing of every day facts. He will know he will not eet rich from few hens, for one thing For another he will know that he can l not get rich in the poultry business otherwise than as other men get rich in otl.er business, namely, by doing great deal of it successfully. For another thing, he will know that there is good profit, and much satisfaction, in doing even & little of the business.
 Now that the heated season is here the poultry man needs to be on the watch for inroads of the red mites which so cunningly, and consistently, take up their abode ill hen houses. It is not always fair sailing on this voyage on which We are embarked, as many have found. There are battles to wage and that against insect life is one the poul- trier has on hand much of the time. At the risk of repetition it may be stated that one pound of naphthalene flakes dissolved in one gallon of coal oil, with one or two tablespoonfuls of chloro- naphthalene added make d very effec- tive paint for roosts where mites play hide and seek.
 Also for good disinfectant, a powder one may profitabIy use i'll the house and yards, is air-slaked lime, sulphur and liberal quantity of chIoro-naphtnalene. Poultry Journal.