Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-20
SANITARY POUL TRY CO..
A NEW VENTURE.
Company to Produce 10000 Birds An
nually. Plant to be in Operation
Within Thirty Days.

The price of poultry and products
for the past few years, according to
statistics, have been steadily adj
vancing. Especially 50 since the
recent packing house investigation
which revealed the filthy and un-
sanitary condition that existed in
the principal food preparing estab-
lishment of the world
People are now demanding the
strictly fresh egg as part of the
breakfast meal as well as the rest
/ of the days menu and the spring fry
or the soft roastcr is a luxury where
poultry is scarce. The food quality
of the egg is being more generally
appreciated. For the invalid it
contains nourishment and is easily
digested and for the well a food
equal to the tenderest porterhouse
and equally as satisfying to the ap-
petite.
The price of poultry advances ac-
cording to the supply and the past
few years has nearly doubled. Ten
years ago strictly fresh eggs went
begging Sat six and seven cents
dozen. while in the same locality
the same fresh product went to the
minimum of thirteen cents per doz-
en- the present year. Spring chick
ems went onto the market at the
price of beef while today the price
ranges from thirty tive to fifty
cents per pound and difficult to
procure at that price. The reason
for this increase is the fact that
people recognize the clean, whole
some food contained in an egg or
fresh chicken and are demanding
the food at any price.
To meet this increased demand
large poultry establishments are ap-
pearing in all parts of the United
States, but more especially in the
east. Plants producing up to 100, :
600 ducks and chickens per year
are not uncommon. Laying ranches
covering from fifty to one hundred
and twenty acres of land and con-
tanning flocks OF 5000 to IS, 600
laying hens is the size of eastern
poultry plants.
To meet the growing demands for
poultry IL Mountain Home and in
fact this section of the west, the
Sanitary Poultry Co. has been es-
tablished for the purpose of hatch
ing and raising chickens for mur-
ket and furnishing strictly fresh
eggs. The company will not be
confined entirely to the rearing of
a market product, but thoroughbred
fowls will be bred and kept on hand
TOR those desiring to improve either
the laying quality or market size of
their flocks. For this purpose the
Single Comb White Leghorn has
been selected for egg production and
the Single Comb White Orpington
for both market fowl and layer
The Lcshorn has stood the test of
repeated egg laying contests and in
each and every instance proven far
superior in point of numbers and
size OF egg to any other breed; one
strain producing an average of 200
eggs per hen for the year The
Orpington is new breed originat-
ing in England and is the favorite
table fowl of that country. The
flesh is white and the breast full
and long the cock birds weighing
as high as twelve and fourteen
pounds. They come from the
Single Comb White Leghorn and
White Hamburg, the offspring from
this mating crossed with the Dork-
ing. This mating produces an ex-
celient laying table fowl that can
not be surpassed by any other
breed.
Sufficient equipment of the best
of standard manufactures has been
ordered to hatch and rear 1000
chickens per month ready for de-
livery to the market. Laying stock
will be kept in sufficient quantities
to supply any possible demands
with strictly fresh eggs at ali sea-
sons OF the year. Three hundred
fowls have been purchased and
moved into the large laying and
breeding house in the east part of
town. A large incubator cellar is
under construction that will hold