The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-19
GAN MAKE MONEY
 RAISING CHICKENS Alabama Doesn't Supply for Hore Consumption SMALL FARMERS CHANCE WeIl-known Local Produce Man Tells of Opportunities Open In Alabama.
 More Business Here Than
 In Western States.
SMALL FARMERS CHANGE

A golden opportunity is awaiting men in Alabama who have small place and a limited amount of capital, according to L. A. Towney the wel-known produce dealer of this city.
 q read d dispatch from Gadsden in The Age-Ierald recently" said MT. Townley which stated that the people on Sand Mountain are raising great many chick ens and in consequence have many eggs to send to the market. Yes. 1t is true that perhaps all this product is sent here, as this is about the best market that could be reached within two or three hundred miles of Sand Mountain. This simply means that Birmingham Is the best market l know of anywhere for chickens and eggs.
 Now, I am about the oldest dealer in poultry and poultry products in Birmins- ham. I can't see any possible reason why we people of Alabama should not pro duce all rne chickens and eggs we need for home consumption, but the fact re- mains that Alabama does not produce more than 30 per cent of the chickens and eggs consumed in the state. We import the remainder of what we need from the  sas.
 Business Would Pay.
 And right here.'' said MT. Townley, "1 want to state in the most emphatic man ner that I don't know of a business on the face of the earth that would pay a man with limited capital so well as to go into the chicken and egg business. All he needs is a small place in good loca- tion, and such a market as Birmingham affords will do the rest. The man who can realize his opportunity in this business can be independent in a few years.
 But while l am talking I must drift off to another subject" said MT. Town ley. T came back to Birmingham yester- dal after a visit of several weeks to Lake Superior Mich. and I want to say that Birmingham has more life, more stir Ii such word Is permissible, and more business and building activity than any city I visited. When I told people UT In Michigan and other places in the west I visited that l was from Birmingham they almost invariably cried, Why, arc you from that yellow fever country?
 Had to Explain.
  found it almost impossible to explain tc them that Birmingham and Alabama, ir fact do not come in the fever district The people up there have very exagger ated idea about the fever scare in this part of the country They do not realize that yellow fever cannot live here ano that no case has even developed here This ignorance on the part of people nortf and west is one of the things we have got to fight against.
 Any one who will take the trouble t' look Into the matter cannot but realiz' that Birmingham is one of the healthies cities in the south. Our torn-up street look bad to strangers, of course, but thu escapes of gas from furnaces and othel manufacturing plants are, in my humble opinion. almost complete disinfectants.
 "We are having very little sickness here. Now. compare 1t with Washington city where they have been having twen ty new cases of typhoid fever per da, for the last two weeks, and then compare the general state of health of Birmingham with that in the Capital City of the ma tion.