The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-04-07
POULTRY ON THE FARM.
1t Used to BE Considered a By-Pred-
uct, But. 1t Is Not So =
Nowadays.

This day of ours is often termed the
progressive age" and certainly the
south has made such rapid strides in
growth and all material development
that our ever changing conditions in
SO many points touching our productive
. capacity has naturally'left us behind in
many minor lines. One of these minor
things of major importance" Is the
poultry business. 1t Is true we have
varieties of the different breeds; that
we have been introduced to the won
ders Of the incubator and brooder; and
that We have many poultry yards, still
We witness the price ever advancing
and the supply still more inadequate
We must wake up and grapple with this
problem until we can at least supply
all our local demand We were raised
up to consider the chicken a little
family adjunct, or by-product of the
farmer, to be used by the way of add
ing toothsome variety to our table and
q kind of necessity to be kept running
around the premises to be caught and
slain when extra company arrived, and
especially to be sacrificed whenever the
preacher appeared upon the scene, but
now we are called upon to consider her
as a money-maker-as one of the prod
ucts of the farm that daily pays for
her daily keep and the product that will
yield a greater and more regular rev.
enue upon the investment than any
other. Many of us can remember ten
or fifteen years ago, when often eggs
went begging at ten cents per dozen,
and fine, fat fryers were drug on the
MAJ ket at ten and fifteen cents apiece.
Look at the difference for the last
two years. More than double these
prices could have been realized the year
around, and the supply totally made
quate to meet the demand. We must
wake up and spread out. No farmers
wife, who will give poultry the atten-
tion it deserves, need ever be lacking
in money to buy her a needed dress,
book, paper, or little household article.
No boy or girl but what could always
have pin-money if they would learn to
attend to the hen that keeps laying
right along" No farmers daughter
need go to town to clerk for board
and Clothes when she could make as
much with less strain by directing her
time intelligently to the poultry bust
ness. And it would do many of our
men good and pay them we'll to con-
slider how to raise 100 chickens which
will bring the price of a bale Of cot
ton. instead of striving so hard to in
cre1se their yield Of the stable another
season. We have to spend money every
month in the year, so let's have some
coming in every month in the year. Do
mot overlook any profitable part of the
farming industry that you can success
fully handle. If you can raise more
poultry, do so. If you can raise bet
ter poultry. do so. Do not keep scrubs
without getting in some good variety
to improve your stock You can not
lose anything by buying. a good cock
erel or a setting of. fine eggs every
year. Do let's have our chicken coops
and nests where our 'smokehouses and
corn cribs used to be. We are gradu-
ally moving them back down south,
and let us have the chickens to come
home TO roost" so.-Southern Cult
vator. -.