Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-09

OduSc ana cllcCt must DC Stuu1cQs
all the details must be looked after
with an intelligent eye and the hand
that receives the income must con- 4
stantly watch the hand that pays
out. In the poultry business above
all things, ordinary common sense /
is the quality most needful.
1t is not within the scope of these I
articles to cover every case, but no
matter where we go, certain things
are true about poultry keeping, |
among the number being these
That poultry and eggs at all times
of the year meet with ready sale
for cash; that as d rule the price of
poultry and of eggs does not fall be-
low the cost of production, where
intelligent methods are employed;
that extra or gilt-edged prices can
everywhere be ordained Tor gilt
edged stock, that is, for extra
choice, uniform and neatly dressed
fowls and strictly fresh eggs. that
it costs practically no more when
one is tightly equipped for the work
to produce a gIlt-edgcd article than
an inferior one; that by the proper
use of artificial means the highest
market price can be obtained at all
times of the year; that by adopting
up to date methods, hundreds of
dozens of eggs can be produced dur
ing the season of the year when
they will command the highest
prices, and that hundreds OF duck
lings and chickens can be raised up
on a comparatively small plat Of
ground. A surprising amount Of
poultry can be produced on an acre
of ground, while full Pledged farm
can be conducted on a five acre
tract, where knowledge and good
sense 90 hand in hand
Not all men are qualified to sue
coed to the same extent, but we
claim it is fair to cite exceptional
cases of success in the poultry bus
mess, where the methods employed
and the man or woman who en-
ploys them is not wonder worker
in any way, except that he or she
has put heart and brains into the
work. There are several branches
to the poultry business that are sep
arate and distinct one from the
other, although a number of sue
essful men and women whom we
know combine two or more branch
es of the business with success.
What one is doing with success
another can do; hence when we
cite actual cases of success that
have come under our personal obser-
, walton we feel that we are simply
, pointing out what others can do.
1t is no doubt true that where one
person succeeds with poultry sew
! eral fail.
Let us describe briefly the lead
ing branches of the poultry bust
ness. We hear most about the
: fancy or standard bred poultry bust
ness, and for good reasons. for nc
doubt it is really more important
WHEN we come to consider how in
significant the poultry industry
was thirty or forty years sago COM
pared with what it is at the pres
ent day, the great change being
due very largely to the work of the
fanciers, in breeding to a stsndar d,
that is, to different types anc
ideals, founded as a rule on the
basis of combined utility anc
beauty. BY fancy in poultry As
meant that which is pleasing II
look at-the beautiful in form anc
feather. BY utility is mean
size, vigor, color of skin, egg pre-
duction, etc. and in the ability &
n a type to reproduce in its progeny
: those characteristics that are es
pccially desirable in poultry fo
c market. Persons who are not post
e ed on the subject of standard brec
poultry can have no idea that there
r are over 100 distinct val icties o
standard bred poultry, ranging il
weight all the way from few
ounces, in the case of the bantams
to Mammoth Bronze turkeys weigh
: ing as high as as to so pounds
v So far egg yield is concerned thu
: average American hen, as set fortl
by the census of 1890, lays les
d than100 eggs year. On the othe
II hand as result of the work dom
is by the fancier or breeder, large
l. flocks of Leghorns running fifty t.
/. pen, including 600 fowls in all
It have made averages of 1914 eggs il
n 365 days, while in other and small
o cr flocks hens have averaged, &C