The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-10-10
POULTRY RAISING In
TOWN-IT PAYS
BY Dr.. r. w. Young, President Mich
i-sn State Poultry 1850
citation.

staples, they are indispensable on our
tables. Nothing can take their place.
The demand for fancy stock was never
before so great as at the present time.
You will hear say there was Mr.. Smith
or Mr.. Brown or Mr.. Clark, or some
other fellow who went into the poultry
business and lost all. That is very
true, and | do net wonder that there
start in. l happen to know few peo-
pie myself who started into the poul-
try business and made fiat failures OF
it. l also happen to know why they
did so. | will tell you how Mr..
Brown, who had $1,000 to throw away,
went into business.
In the first place, Mr. Brown knew
nothing about poultry, could not tell
a rooster from hen, they all looked
alike to him. Every person he would
meet he had to tell all about what he
was going to do, going into the chicken
business, greatest thing On earth; had
figured out where he could make
enough money to retire on in five
years. The way he went about it, let
contract for buildings costing him S.
500> consisting of laying houses, incu.
bator house and brooder house. From
his way of thinking they were perfect,
but they were far from being so. His
buildings were completed ABOUT the
middle of June. He was now 1900 in
debt, and not o chicken on his place.
His next step was incubatOrs and In.
door breeders, then came the buying
of eggs for Matching and feed for
young chicks and a little later colony
houses, putting Mr.. Brown $4OO more
in debt. His young stock now were
requiring lots of feed to keep them
growing, going in debt still more.
Things commence to lock rather dark
been all pay ever since he started, and
nothing coming in. Fall comes and he
finds himself several hundred dollars
in debt. Feeling discouraged with his
years work he quits the business IN
disgust. Now, it would have been bet.
made the venture, his condemnation
of the business and everybody and
everything connected with it will dc
untold harm in keeping others from
taking it up who might have made
grand success of it. Many a man has
built up a great poultry business for
less than $500, where Mr.. Brown made
a total failure on $4,000 Motto, do
not put so much money into buildings.
You must have a little capital to work
on, the profit is in the poultry, not In
the buildings. To be sure, you want
warm, dry, well ventilated quarters,
but you must first get your stock.
which should be the very best. If you
cannot afford to buy pen, which con-
sists of four females and one male,
buy a few settings of eggs. Look we'll
after your young stock and in the fall
you will have a start which any fan
cier would be proud of. Do not expect
to make any money from your poultry
the first year. The second year you
might be able to sell few settings,
but the third year you should have
both stock and eggs for sale. Why so
many fail in the poultry business is
because they jump into it without look
ing into it, They expect to get rich
and retire after the first year.
Now drive the get-rich-quick idea
out of your head it's swindle, has
ruined many a man. Take our mer.
chants, mani. lecturers, professional
men and men with trades-it has
taken time, hard work and steady be-
fore they commenced to reap bene
fit, and many one dropped cut in the
struggle. You can start in thorough.
bred poultry with less money and can
have a business paying 100 per cent.
in less time than anything else you
might venture into. | know dozens Of
men who have started into the poultry
business and who to-day are making
big money out of it, but they started
right started at the bottom AM!
worked up.
Breeding of fancy fowls in our towns
and cities is becoming very popular b.
business and professional men. They
ners are not raised on farms, the towr
and city lot fanciers have an equal
chance with their country cousins, ex
cepting for lack Of room, he cannot
raise as many-it is more quality than
quantity with him, he enjoys the grow.
ing of prize winners and the recrea.
ton which helps body and mind.
| began the rearing Of thoroughbred
poultry solely for pleasure and l be.
lieve there is nothing person can get
more enthusiasm out of than flock OF
thoroughbred chickens. / often won.
der why more men who are so CON
fined to offices in our large cities do
not start little poultry plant in their
back yard, they would find there is al
ways something to learn to do, to plan
and to hope for and by looking wei:
after their stock, they would combine
profit and pleasure. A man who thinks
it beneath his dignity to keep few
birds better get his hat on straight.
If he would write to some of our fan
ciers, asking them for prices for say,
rs of his best birds, and the answer
would come back $4,000, he would
drop his dignity Birds have even sold
for nearly $4,000 apiece, $500 birds are
being sold every day.
To the farmers I would say this is
an age OF improvement and when you
see a chance to improve you should
grasp it. Do little more hard think
ing and you will do less hard work,
the man who works his brains ia the