The sun., 1908-07-05
MONEY IN HATCHING CHICKS
THAT rs, For TEE WOMAN WHO
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS.


wlfe Nets Her q C0upie Of Hundred
Dollars o 9eason-kier Customers City
People with Homes In the Country.
There 10 woman In Ulster county. N. r,
who adds couple Of hundred dollars to
her income each summer by hatchins and
selling one day old chicks. She keeps ffty
hens, and during the other months OF the
| year she devotes her spare time to raising
broilers for market.
Being farmers wife have less time
| to give to chicken raising during the sui%
| mer," she explained to the reporter. THAT
10 ono reason why fnd selling chicks more
profitable than raising them.
-Of course the eggs would always bring
q good price because my hens are all thor
oughbreds, but then again there would be
the extra trouble Of packing and shipping
at the season when tho price Of even the best
eggs IL lowest -Broilers also bring less
at this season than at any other time In the
year. Trouble and time considered. get
more by Matching out my eggs and selling
the day old chicks.
'The business itself is very simple. With
my hens furnishing the best eggs there only
remains putting them In the incubators.
keeping them at the right temperature.
taking out the chicks and packing and
shipping them.
There is no food put In the shipping box
nor is there any feeding before shipping.
1t is this fact that max es the business pos
sible and. might cay. adds not little to
the profits.
.The chickens should be taken from the
incubator as soon as dry, which will be
few hours after they como out OF the shell.
and packed in boxes about six inches deep.
carefully covered with layer Of burlap
over which Stats are fastened 30 as to pro-
tsot the chicks from injury. Small holes
should be bored In the boxes near the top
TO secure sufficient ventilation and at the
same time protect the chicks from all danger
Of getting chilled. I pack my chicks quite
closely, not only for the sake OF saving
| space, but also because they stand less
chance of getting bruised and will keep
each othsr at the right temperature.
while have heard Of chicks being safely
shipped moro than a thousand miles have
never sent any more than couple Of hun
dred miles. My patrons are all families
who move into the country during the
summer and prefer to raise chickens for
their own table. There is not the slightest
| doubt but chickens carefully raised and
| fed at horne make the best eating. have
always advised people who come into the
country for a few months in the year to
have chicken runs. even II small. and TO
| raise their own broilers.
| until one becomes accustomed to IL
managing incubators is quite a science
Of itself and cannot always be learned In a
season. With good brooder. which is
never expensive. and a chicken run as large
WHY almost everybody shouldn't have the
| pleasure Of raising his own chickens.
with each box Of chicks | enclose q
little printed slip saying just how and when
they should be fed and watered at first.
After that all that is required Is good food.
clean water and enough ground space to
neck gravel and stretch their growing
limbs. OF course 1t is better II they. can
have a grass plot, but that can be omitted
II fresh vegetables are furnished several
Il have several customers who assure me
that they never buy food for their chicks.
but feed them entirely on the scraps from
the table and pickinge from the unoooked
others who feed their chickens entirely on
certain foods with the idea Of having O
particular favor. The difference lies In
the people and not in the chicks: one person
prefers to make trouble and the other
my season begins the second week in
April and lasts until the middle Of August.
Chicks bought in April will be ready for
the table in June and those bought in August
are for use during the last weeks for the,
famiiy's stay in the country, or perhaps,
as ia sometimes the case. they are Kept and
killed. being shipped into town as required.
People tell me it is pretty hard to get Rack
to using dressed eh,okehs i ehioL after say,ng ,h
own raising. and for>that reason they like
10 have Few left over to keep the taste
in their mouths as long, as possible.
AN my orders ere booked before the
i n,oN tn nAnaa f~r IN
telligent mana cement Of my business. OF
course could, and do often, have a few
chicks left over. but never enough to fill
an extra order.
place and as a rule become the property
of my two small oh!ldren. They claim them
and sell them to me for uso on our own
table. There are never enough to warrant
shipping them to the city, and besides
make a point OF never taking any orders
for broilors or eggs to be filed during tho
| summer
after my last shipment OF chicks in
August begin to prepare Tor tho orders
Those are the kind that pay best. and /
| might add require the most care, for 1t re-
quires work to tend them and to manage
the hens in such way as make them con-
tinue to lay eggs: or course the secret Of
TINT in the main is the feeding, and II that
is properly attended TO- and the breed is
right hens are practically little more than
laying machines.
%For the purpose Of shipping day old
chicks prefer white Leghorns, not only
because they are the best layers. but also
because the chicks themselves are fairly
hardy and mature as broilers in q reason
able time. The profits In the business are
not exorbtaut, though for the time and
effort put into 1t l consider myself well
paid
Il should never advise any woman TO
70 into the business with tho expectation
OF making fortune without an effort and
In n limited time. The only woman ever
did advise TO undertake 1t cured me OF ever
trying to hep strangers. with advice at
lecst.
This particular woman heard Of mo
through one Of my customers and made
fifty mile trip to see my place and con-
suit me. gave up one entire day to her;
gave her every particle Of information that
possibly could. The next year got three
or four letters OF bitter complaint from
her because abe hadn't been able to hatch
all the eggs she had put In her incubators.
"The second year she wanted me to come
down TO her place and look IL over. She
did offer to pay my way but as time amounts
TO something with me both on account OF my
home duties and my family, i didn't feel
| that could accent Such a letter "A got