The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-04-15
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OBJECT LESSON IN POULTRY WORK
IN, M, Hansen.O
H. L. BLANCHARD

willing heart and a trained hand be-
fore there can be any honest success
full result in industry or business. We
cannot successfully do what we do not
perfectly understand, hence some per-
Tod of our time must be given to learn.
We must not forget reading and study
and accept such help as we can get
from those who are older and more ex-
perienced in the business for best re-
suits. We must take plenty of time
for rest, sleep and food, and not for
get that six days shall thou labor
and do all thy work." and remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy
1t is the Sabbath or the Lord thy God:
in it thou shalt not do any work"
Many strike out in business with
energy and invincible determination to
succeed but turn out failures. They
fail for the lack of knowledge, refuse
instruction, despise the power of their
own mind and stay wise in their own
conceit They only will become mas
ters of their own situation, time and
business who go through the gate of
experience leading to some knowledge
of the laws that govern the natural,
mental and moral life in this world
Women are often better poultry
raisers than men. They are more pains
taking, patient and gentle in their
work. My mother, farmers daugh.
ter, but a teachers wife, took great
delight in raising both ducks and
chickens in small way on part Of a
town lot nearly thirty-five years ago.
In the corner Of an outbuilding she had
a three-story apartment poultry house.
The ducks occupied the lower floor
space, about four by five feet. From
three to five was the number Of the
flock from which she raised several
dozens to sell every year, besides those
used in the family. About two feet
and six inches from the ground floor
occupied by the ducks was a solid
board floor and an old-fashioned step
ladder roost for about dozen chick
ems About four feet above was again
solid board floor and this upper story
was most interesting to us boys, be-
cause there we kept our pigeons. Most
Of the feed for this little poultry
plant came from the kitchen scraps
and small garden. A few oats and a
little barley were the only grain ever
fed. 1t was profitable FOR the family,
pleasure for mother and a lifelong
object lesson to us chi1dren-more val
liable than the money derived from it.
And now it is the wife who is poul-
try raiser and woman of all work at
our home on a small farm. She was
born, raised and lived in the city for
the first 35 years Of her life. She had
everything to learn when four years
ago we first began on the farm. Many
Of our best friends and relatives
thought it was foolish and a great mis-
take for us to think of doing anything
on piece Of land, and I was told 80
by some of them in no uncertain strong
words. I was crippled and partly para
lyzed and could not do a days work
or any kind. Our means were limited
and the outlook was not very bright.
At that time a brother-in-law said to
me: Il don't want my sister to bury
herself in the country" I did not an
swer him one word, but thought of the
multitude Of human beings in every
large city buried in foul sweatshops,
filthy slums and crowded tenement
houses. I thought Of the many bread
winners who every night in the year
return from work tired and weary to
close and crowded rooms, where, with
their loved ones of wife and children,
and in spite of all they can do many
VI IHSLH are uOOmeu TO living burial
In poverty want, sickness and misery,
IF not in vice and CRIME.
I know something of the conditions
Of such people in more than one city.
I know there is salvation for thousands
Of them if they will but make good
their escape out into the country. The
certainties of life are there; the pos
sibilities of a real home, Of bread Of
comfort and happiness are wrapped UP
in the soil Of mother earth for all her
Industrious sons and daughters Gods
out-of-doors nature is full Of real