The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-05-18

alone, while the man who is earning
$40 a day is using his brains as well
as his Drawn. If you put brains into
the poultry business as we'll as muscG-
lar action. you will reap a great har-
vest every day
/ am glad the farmers are finding
out as never before the possibilities in
keeping thoroughbred poultry. They
are learning by practical experience
that pure bred poultry gives the most
satisfactory results, and that no line
of Farming pays better than poultry
and egg production. The young man
ON the farm today has no greater or
grander business proposition than the
poultry industry offers. He is privl-
legged to use his brains as much as our
merchant, professional man, or any
other person, and by using them he
can climb the rocky road faster to
prosperity. Subscribe for one or more
poultry journals, they will teach you
things you never knew before, they ex-
plain rything that you do not un-
derstand, you cannot get along without
them. I have taken five poultry jour-
nails for the past four years, have al
ways found them interesting and full
of good facts. | hope the day is not
far off that when you ask a farmer
what kind Of stock he keeps he can say
thorOughbreds, and not mongrels.
Mongrels are mongrels, and you can
not make anything else out of them.
Get rid of them, do not have them
around, they eat more, lay less and
are unsightly.
What looks prettier on farm than
a fine fock&"of thoroughbred chickens
In showing friend or a stranger about
your farm, you will take great pleas
ure in showing him your flock Of thor
oughbreds, you will interest him; he
| will go away thinking about them and
| will tell his friends all about them.
What a pleasure pure bred stock
brings! In starting l think it best to
select one breed; make a study OF
them and look after their wants. The
profit and prosperity of the business
now depends upon your own efforts,
1t is only few years ago when you
sold your eggs for nine cents per dozen
and had to take all out in trade. To
| day you receive from 80 to 40 cents
per dozen in cash and from 10 to Is
cents per pound for live fowls. Now
where is there anything paying like
poultry on your farm? I believe farm
ers on so, rs and 100-acre farms can
make dollars out of poultry where they
make cents out of grain. Do not look
upon the poultry business as foolish
| hobby. 1t is worthy Of your best ef
| forts; it has grown from insignificant
proportions into one of the greatest in
dustries of our country. It is unriv'
aled by the coal mine, the gold mine
| the wheat, corn, oats, wool Or any
other agricultural product in the world
| it's value annually running into the
Millions Thanks to incubators and
brooders, they have been introduced
into the poultry world the last few
years, and without them it would be
| utterly impossible to get the results
| shown above. I am glad to see farm
ers by the hundreds to-day blying in
cubators and brooders. There is nc
reason why anyone cannot run them
successfully; they have helped thou
| sands to make money out of poultry;
| they will help you.
This is undoubtedly an age of ad
vertising. Our business men of to-day
| are all extensive advertisers; they are
! noted far and wide; it is beneficial tc
! them and a decided benefit to the pub
| lie as we'll as there are always people
| looking for just what you might have
| for sale. 1t is strictly mail orde1
business Advertise just what you
| have and sell just what you advertise
Don't tell lies about your stock. The
! American people will not be hum
| busged, An advertisement in good
| poultry journal will sell your stock
It also pays to carry an ad in your
local paper; it costs but little and lets
| the people know for miles around
about you and your stock, besides
! local papers are sent all over the
| United States, giving you good results
for very little money spent. The be
ginner might be somewhat timid about
| spending little money in advertising
but l want to say through constant
and liberal advertising great poultry
business can be built up.
Another very important help to the
| poultry industry are the poultry shows;
they are as much needed to poultry
culture as our schools are to our coun.
try, they help the beginner and the
old fancier-are educational from start
tn finish -. ~ - x. !! T.