Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-02-07
POULTRY IN ocoseE.
Tho Industry Pays In the North and the South
Offers Greater Opportunities.

industry ls receiving more aud more
attention.
Pennsylvania produces much coal
and steel, but from Pennsylvania
comes the news that all the coal
marketed in that great State does
not bring 80 much money as the pro-
ducts of the Pennsylvania chicken
yard.
The American Poultry Journal,
published in Chicago, has abou, fifty
thousand subscribers. and it is est;-
mated that quarter of million peo-
pie read it.
In the West, where the cowboy
has had his day, the "old hen" is en-
joying life and laying dollars for her
owner, while the incubator saves her
the trouble of abiding on the nest
until her legs are too stiff to help her
over log.
One woman in Indiana told me
not long ago that during the last
three years she had made on bber
chickens, above expenses, fifteen hun
dred dollars, and she is not specially
II the poultry business, but simply
keeps chickens in the right way.
While the hen is 80 profitable in
the North and given so much atten-
tion in the Great West, why should
not the Southeastern States give the
chicken a chance?
So far as our knowledge goes, there
is no spot of the United States 80
well adapted to paying poultry rails
ing as is Oconee county. SO far as
the price is concerned this county
has good advantages. In some
Southwestern States poultry is quite
high priced. But as rule chickens
sell for more in Mobile, Ala, than in
indianapolis, Ind, and bring as fair
sum i'll Charleston, S. c., as in
Charleston, w. Va.
AS to market-it is not "far to
seek" In twenty four hours a coop
of chickens or crate of eggs can be
sent from Oconee to Knoxville, Ashe-
vile, Charlotte, Columbia, Charles
ton, Atlanta, birmingham or New
York, to say nothing of smaller, but
good markets.
1t sometimes pays man to ship a
~ hn L. "a
tied in Greenville, S. c., and heard
our hostess complain that eggs could
hardly be bought there, and when in
the market could be bought for no
less than 25 cents per dozen. We
got on the train there, and in few
hours our train stopped at town in
East Tennessee, and we heard man
outside ask, "What are eggs worth ?"
and we heard the answer, "Seven
cents" and that too in seven hours
run of Greenville, where people were
hungry for eggs at more than two
cents apiece
In the colder States, where
"chckens pay" the weather is un-
favorable to little chicks for eight or
nine months in the year, but not so
IL Oconee.
In the colder States poultry houses
have to be built tightly, often double
floors and walls. Stoves have to be
put in the chicken roosts and fuel
bought to keep the cold rooster"
warm from November to March.
During the long winter, while the
earth is covered with snow, and ice
two feet thick bridges the rivers, the
hen in Ohio is put into small run
indeed, while her cousin in Oconee
bathes in the sunshine. If the hen
pays in Ohio, why should she not
pay ten fold more in Oconee?
Again, in great part of the
United States chickens cannot pick
up grit. They must have grit, but
1t is not there and it has to be bought
and shipped. While write this the
wagon is on the way to bring from
the depot 200 pounds of grit that l
ordered for my fowls. Nature has
thrown good coat of SHARPE cor
nered little stones upon the hills of