Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-04-04
Runs Egg Farm.

son of Eagle, Wis. IT, u represent.
htive of the Milwaukee Sentinel. |
That depends on how you go ut
il. | have farm Of 2G0 acres
upon which | have 900 laying
hens, and enough Others to bring
the grand total up to 1900. The
pays well. People claim
that they have to pay high price
for eggs in winter, but as a matter
of fact they do not pay any more
then than in the summer, for the
cold storage men come into the
market during the warm weather
and send the price skyward. Of
course this has nothing to do with
my business as | sell my eggs on
yearly contracts to people who are
willing to pay the price for fresh
eggs.
You know there are sanitary
and unsanitary eggs. A hen is
one of the most unclean fowls
that we have. They will eat any
thing when allowed to run at
large. This, of course. has IN ef-
feet upon the eggs. My chickens
are fed on health food. The coops
are cleaned out and disinfected
every day, and the result is that |
am enabled to place before my Gus.
toners an egg that is not only
strictly fresh, but is healthy.
What sort of hens have | on
my farmt There is not black
bird among the entire 5000. They
are White Leghorns aud White
Wyandottes. The Leghorns are
the best egg producers and the
WyandOtts the best broilers.
we have a capacity for re- ising
1000 chickens a month, all of them
by means OF incubators. Ii will
not do for person to go into bus
iuess on a large scale at the start.
II he does he will find that he is
mp against it. You may read all
the books on poultry, but you have
got 10 learn the business by ex-
perience aud feel your way :"
Sidney Smith cut the following
from a newspaper and preserved il
for himself:
When you rise in the morning,
form a resolution to make the day
a happy one to II fellow creature.
1t is easily done. A left-off gar
ment to the man who needs it, q
kind word to the sorrowful, an en-
couraging expression to the striv'
ing, tSifes in themselves as light
as air, will do at least for the
twenty four hours. And. il yOu
are young. depend upon it, it viii
pay when you are old, and il yOI
are old, rest assured it will send
you gently aud happily down th'
stream of time to eternity. BY
the most simple arithmetical sum
look at the result. II you senC
one person, only one, thru the day
that is three hundred and sixty
five during the year. SuppOsinI
you live forty years only after yoJ
commence this course OF medicine
you have made Sl4,6 600 being
happy at all events for a time"
A child may be troublesome il
many ways without deserving
punishment. We must Away
bear in mind the good of the child
aud our form of government mus
not be neglectful OF the child
true interest in our great efforts +
make his behavior conform to on
moods aud the requirements OF 60
eiety. We punish severely wheI
the child throws q ba
and breaks a window o
turns over q chair, or spills hi
milk; but we pass over the malics
revenge or cupidity that we I'm
creeping out now aud then. Small
playful errors are committed somG
J times under the influence OF youth
Z ful spirits, with no bad intention
whatever on the part Of the chile
This should not be treated gravel
as q moral issue; we should dil
/, criminate between playful acts an
' their motives; we should make OF
: training instil ideas OF truth. (
humanity. and let him SEQ that
the degree he practices these ma,
( Inns il his daily life he win be n
Raraed a. good Or bed.