Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-23
Poultry For Profit

The writer is personally ac-
Quainted with a number OF men
who have made the breeding of
standard poultry their life work.
BY this we mean that these men
have never been in any other bust
mess. They started in the poultry
at fifteen to twenty wears old, and
have continue in it to date. Some
of them have been in the business
from fifteen to twenty-five years
and we are we'll acquainted with
the facts of their success. Mr.. A.
II. Hawkins, for example, has
been in the standard poultry BUSH
ness twenty-six years and his an
nual sales of stock and eggs sold
for exhibition and breeding pur-
poses amount to from $4,000 to
$4,000 and have for seven to nine
years past. We know of other
$4,000 to SIS, 900 and we are per-
.sonally acquainted with women
VINO raise and sell from $1,000 to
$4,000 worth of standardized stock
and eggs each year, making a good
living therefrom. In fact, in all
these cases poultry as bred by these
experienced persons is the best
farm crop raised in their respec-
tive neighborhood. Hundreds of
men are making standardized poul
try side issue and clearing up
each year snug little sums ranging
from two to thtee hundred dollars
to two or three thousand dollars.
We make these statements on the
basis of our personal knowledge.
The writer during the past eight
year has travelled probably so, 900
miles, visiting poultrymen and at
tending poultry exhibitions, and
these writings are based upon the
best information thus obained.
Probably four out OF every five
persons who think seriously of en-
barking in the poultry business ap-
proach it from what may be called
the practical or market side. Their
first idea is to raise hundreds OF
thousands of chickens for the COM
mon market, and we regret to say
that as a rule they do not look care
fully enough into the subject before
investing their capital, and as a
direct result many failures are
recorded. We know of no busin ess
where man who is apt with fig
ures and given to figuring can make
untold wealth easier or quicker
than in producing poultry for mar
ket-on paper. We remember that
the first time we got the fever it
took one side of sixteen foot
board for us to figure on the prot
it's we were to make from a
broiler plant that was to have
the capacity of 5000 broilers per
season. We were not daft-sim-
ply figuring.
There is money in poultry for
market, we would aim st say
plenty of it, but it depends upoo
the man. 1t was Napoleon who
said: MEN is nothing; a man is
everything.
This is true in poultry business
as we'll as in war or in statesman
ship Take for example, the exper-
fence of c. H. Wyckoff. We refer
the reader to the installment in
this series entitled profitable
Egg Farming. - The writer visited
Mr.. Wyckofi' ; place got his story
from him direct, end it may be
relied upon. Mr.. Wyckioff is {
man in whom we have full conf
dence. He does not consider thai
he performed a miracle. He sim
ply marked out his course, newec
closely to the line, was patient,
the results were entirely satisfac-
tory. AS further evidence of what
can be done, speciA attention is
directed to the installment in this
series entitled Give Thousand
Ducks Raised on Two Acres"
To all those who contemplate
raising poultry and eggs for mar
ket, let us say that good market
is of first Importance. You should
know what market you are to sup
ply and what that market demands
before you spend dollar or take
the first slept to ward going into the
business. What you will first
want to do is to get into position
to furnish exactly what your mar
ket demands, what it prizes mosi
highly and will pay a premium on.
Desirable goods always sell the
easiest, and you will want TO join
with your marketnen in catering
to this invariable rule. A great
secret Of success i S to send to mar
ket just what the market wants,
delivering it there in the most al
tractive form possible. so as to at
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