The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-02-28
EGGS AND CHICKEN MONEY

Asnine tenths of the readers o
Farmers, the subject OF poultry OF
the farm Is a familiar one, as ever!
farmer Is now more or less of q pou
Try raiser. II the farmer himself
ism u, his wife is, which amounts tt
che same thing. L. there anything
new TO be said on the subjscl? / fsaI
not. However, there may be such q
tcing as calling in some thoughts
from the field OF forgetfulnes.
There was time when farm folks
we're not extensive poultry raiseIs.
That was Is to 20 years ago. Then
prices for oyery thing the farmer pro
duced werel0w, but poultry and poul
try products lower than auythiug
else. 1t didn'G pay. A few nens-3O
or 40-were kept to supply home needs
and with this the poultry industry
Of I be farm stopped. Eggs often sold
for as low as 1 to cents during the
SUNNI or. How different today
1t seems that everything farmer
takss up today, successfully, must
first be reduced to an exact science.
We canaot grab hold anywhere and
hang on. We have first to get the
right grip, then hang on tight. And
we have to get the right grip to make
poultry raising on the farm pay.
There is work ABOUT it-lots of IT.
One cannet sit still and see 'em grow,
or 90 on about som ething else, letting
the chickens shift for themselves.
There must be care close attention
little worries in poultry raising or
there is failure. There are no Top
sizes" in the poultry tribe; neither
chicken, turkey, duck nor goose will
just grow up.
There Is money in farm poultry
Taisins--to the person who will give
as close care and attention to IL as to
any other branch OF the farm where
success is GROWING the effort. l know
of farmsrs and farmers wives who
buy all the groceries. the clothes and
other necessities Of the family. be
sides a carriage aud an organ, or a
piauO, occaslonally, from the pre-
ceeds of the poultry yard, La ~ years
they will be buying automobiles with
Lue egg and chicken money.
DnuIf M rui.inH hau NINA for " 2 r6
with leaps the same as anything else
touched by the hand of the progress
sive Twentieth century citizen. We
naye picked IL up mere nojnlng and
brought IL iato coin Of our country.
From letting a few Old hens steal
their rests" In The weeds we have
cUiue all the way to Matching CHICK
ems by machinery and all thls In 10
years. We raise Them now by whole
sale. IL is not, now. u matter Of get
ting old hens that will SCI and keep
iug them on the nest after they have
concluded to perform the parental
duty but dumping eggs into a ma
chine and rakIng downy chickens out
u days hence,
Then comes tte time when care,
right feeding axa strict Attention
counts. The women of the farm
often do this; more often than the
men, Now aud then you find a man
whJ has The patience 70 TOOL
with the days old chick, but more
often tits the woman fur 10. she
does IL TO perfection and along TO
wards mid summer when sale note or
two, contracted ohe fall before comes
due, the guide mon" is glad TO haul
chickens enough TO pay the debts.
The woman who did the work has a
heartbreak when her husband drives
out the front gate with her full
feathered pets, aud calico dress
when he comes back. But The sale
notes have been paid,
No prophetic vision can acquaint US
with the poultry industry of Jhe farm
20 years hence. IL mas grown more In
the last 10 than in thu whole loo
before that. II 1t grows in proportion
Ia the next quarter of century, we
shall be living on chicken and crow
log oyer it. Not only will the empty
feed boxes in the barn be converted
int hens nests, but every morning
as you lift your plate in anticipate Q
Iof filling 1t with blue milk and
'Lijab's Manna," a large brown egg
aud the large breast OF one OF you
pure bred Rocks will rise up to make
glad.
Poultry on the farm! Indeci
would Eet havs it fl the farm unle
went along oo.-Mail ana bcetze,