The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-07

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raise poultry with success Just so Iona
Will there be the long records of failures
OF which the world hears so much. \
series of articles are going the rounds Oh
the papers to the effect that 800 hens wiz
bring a net income of $500 and that one
IN poor health can readily furnish the nee.
essary care. This is arrant nonsense aS
every one knows VINO takes care Of poultry
for a person in rood health would find
themselves exceedingly busy caring fog
300 laying hens properly. The poultry bus
mess for profit is not for invalids nor sazy
people nor yet for those wholly without
experience along some branc OF the work
on the other hand there Is much health
and enjoyment to be gotten out Of a lock
of poultry of any number to suit the TING
one can give to them and profit to any one
who will gain the experience necessary to
handle n flock of considerable size in prop
er shape yet such. a person must be strong
enough to do all the work in connection
With the outfit for once one begins to pay
out the profits for labor the remainder II
Very small.
A CHANGE FOR THE FARMERS
WIFE.
Here seems to be a chance for those who.
are properly located, and by this we mean
within driving distance of a large town or
small city. to work up q profitable bust
ness. For several years there has been
great complaint against the pickles on the
market, mainly because they are pickleis
in chemically made vinegar, which is SO
powerful that it is really dangerous to use
it. Judging from the pickles now on this
market, packers must nave wholly aban-
doned the use of elder vinegar for picking.
Pickle cucumbers are not at all difficult
to raise and one could readily work up n
good trade in the pickle article, guaranteed
to be put up in pure cider vinegar. They
could be marketed in small crooks, holding
a half gallon, or one could invest In bot
ties at first until the trade had been Sc
cured. Once give the consumer a properly
picked cucumber, put up in pure cider
vinegar, and there will be little trouble i'm
increasing the trade to proportions equal
ing ones ability to take care of it.
MARKETING THE SEASONS CROP.
No matter crop is to be marketed
II in a city 1t will pay to spend the neces-
sary time and money to go there and look
up a reliable commission merchant. If
you do not know where to find a reliable
merchant, go to the local bank with whom
you do business or where you are ac-
quainted and ask the banker to give YOU
the commercial standing, of say three OF
IllC pSSl COlIll1llSSlOll merchants IN 1Qc Cl4N
you propose going. Visit these men, talk.
with them and judge whether you can do
business with them to advantage. Once
you decide on the merchant, talk freely
with him, telling him what crops you have.
to market, take his advice as to methods
of packing and packages and agree to
ship according to his Instructions. Follow
this line. and nine times out Of ten it viii
be found profitable. Most of all, il YOU
claim your crop is Of a certain grade sec
that 1t is all you claim for 1t before you
ship 1t and thus get the confidence Of the.
merchant. Once he knows he can abso-
lutely rely upon the quality of your goods.
the method Of packing and shipping, he.
Will go to considerable pains to market
your product for your mutual profit. II he.
flnds you careless and your goods not up
to the standard he will not do as well by
you. In twenty years of fruit growing the
writer has never lost a dollar through the
of commission merchants and
has received a better price with less worry
and trouble by this method of handling
the crops than by any other.
THE JOYS OF FARM LIFE.
Our friends in the city are given to err
vying US our brown skin, well hardened
muscles and the general air of good health.
which has been acquired by many years
of work in the fields. One of them, oc--
cupying a $1,000 a year position, a man.
about the age of the writer, has been par.
ticularly envious of our rather moderate. :.
success on the farm and complains of liisr
hard work and rather Indifferent health
He Is particularly fond of saying that my
work is not so hard as his and that at the
end OF the year l have more to show for
what 1 earn than he does. This latter is.
true, for he lives in the CITY.
owing to his position, must need live in
pretty good style. To convince him that
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spend a week with us and play farmer
came and, as he said, ito worl1, not to
Knowing his condition physically.
we invited him to use the lawn mower OF,
the grounds around the house while we.
worked with the men in the field. AT moan.
he was found in a hammock fast ASLEEP,
and about one-half the avn of a quarter
acre had been moved. He was covered
with a shawl, for as the wife explained
ne was soaked through with perspiration
After dinner he insisted on working in the,
1eld with the rest of us, but worked one
1our and went back to the hammock. To.
make a long story short, he went back to
he city at the end of two weeks grateful
or the country air and living and quite
Wiling to admit that farming was hard.
work.
THE LAkENVELDER.
While L~akenvelder fowls are well known
o poultry breeders, the general public ss.
rot familiar with them. The breed re.
iemble the Leghorns in a general way,
tut are a trifie larger. They are even, more
prolific layers than the Leghorns, but in
'ur experience with them they are even
more nervous than the Leghorns and more
of confinement. They would dc
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