The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-06-18
PROFIT AND CONFINEMENT
ALL IN FIVE ACRES
Poultry, Fruit and Vegetables consti-
tute Sources Of Profit.


with three hundred hens and five
acres 81 land. II. Bishop. 81 Delaware
county. New York. is living a happy
and contented life. says a writer in
Suburban Life. after having engaged
an active business for many years.
Failing health led Mr. Bishop 10 buy
this little place about one mile from
his home village. and careful manage
meni and intelligent study Of condi-
tons as he found them, combined with
and backed up by a natural love for
the out-Of doors and a keen interest
in poultry keeping. have enabled him
20 make a comfortable living on this
small area
AS matter Of fact the statement
that Mr. Bishop owns i've acres of
land is a BIT misleading. because there
really are only two acres that are
tillable. the rest OF the plot being. for
the most part a deep glen, which. OF
course. can not be cultivated. A con
siderable part OF the available land
is occupied By buildings. which in
clude a good house and barn. a tool
storing house. three henner.es and a
brOOder house The remainder is
given 70 an orchard and a vegetable
garden.
The poultry, the fruit and the
vegetables constitute the three
sources OF income. About three hun
bred hens are kept. and they are so
well cared for and so skilfully man
aged that they average a net profit Of
s. a hen This amount. together with
NIB fu hn nf
fruits and vegetables. is quite suffi-
cient for the support Of a small fam
fly. when there is no house rent 10
pay. and when a large part OF the
table supplies are raised on the place
The market value Of the products Of
Mr.. Bishops vegetable garden and
the orchard is not less than three
hundred dollars a year In the or
chard there is practically every kind
OF fruit adapted 10 the locality in
fact the little farm produces almost
everything desirable which can be
grown in that part Of the country
Not everyone could do as well as
Mr. Bishop has done. for he has the
qualities which make for success. both
I'm the fruit and the poultry business.
He IS intelligent Industrious and
painstaking He runs his little place
just as he formerly did his more ex-
tensive business The fact should be
stated. too. that Mr. Bishop was able
10 buy the place outright. II he were
obliged 70 pay interest on a mortgage
the situation might be a little less sat
isfactory The shrewdness Of the man
was disclosed when he began with a
small crop. charging his business as
he learned how TO handle his birds.
Too many people. under such circum-
stances. plunge heavily at the begin
ming. only 70 end in failure.
The poultry plant at this little place
includes one large house for layers
one for pullets that are maturing and
a broOder house. Among the conven.
fences IS a feed-r0om and another
room. where meat is cooked for the
hens and rations prepared The poul
try houses are remarkably free from
lice. because Of Mr. Bishops plan OF
providing a dust-roOm. 12x12. the floor
Of which Is frequently covered with
fresh soil. in which a large flock OF
hens can wallow. all taking their bath
at the same time. and filling the house
with dust in which lice can not live
Mr. Bishop feeds, alternately. dry
and wet mashes made Of wheat bran
and middlings. ground oats. cornmeal
ground fresh bones or cooked meat
milk and alfalfa meal The hens have
the run Of a large grass range In
summer. and in winter are fed cab
bages and other vegetables.
A 240-egg incubator Is used beinr
kept in a suitable room in the house
Early in March the eggs are put into
T.. and the first chicks come out
about ADril l. These are taken &c
the br0oder house and put in a port
able brooder in few weeks the
chicks are strong enough to move
from the brooler 10 a section Of ths
house that Is heated hy a stove under
the floor IN midsummer the pullets
and cockerels are separated and each
Is fed IN the way best calculated e
prepare the cockarels for market an,
10 mature tho nTllcfs for laying
The young chicks are fed oat fake
~ FIRST. with milk when ID can be oh
tanned and cracfed corn and whea
as they er0w older The maturing
bullets ORC fed tho same ration as tn
LAYING hens Alfalfa meal is fed q
some extent ana with good results
Mr. Bishop huvs supplies in quaint
ties ana So gets the lowest prices
He Keeps MincrCas and White Leg
horns. mostly as these lay the pur
white egg which is demanded by tn
New York market. The eggs are shlr
ped to the city once week. and
special price Is obtained for selected
large, white eggs.