New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-10
BY E. c. LAMPSON,
THE chicken fever, like the mumpf,
and measles, is one Of the dis.
J til,

eases with which most mer
sooner or later become affiict.
ed. There are few things that can be
figured out with pen and paper to give
more ''sure results than an imaginary
investment in feathered bipeds. The
/ only cure for this chicken delirium tire.
mems is thorough fumigation and
about three years with Dr.. Experience.
| The net results in ninety-nine cases
out Of hundred, where the patient
! goes in on commercial scale. are
a lot of enthusiasm at first, lit
tie amusement as the chickens DOR
out of their shells, some success for
the first year or two, an undreamed
amount of hard, disagreeable work,
final brood of encouragement and
a plant abandoned to lice or an
other sucker who has read all the
poultry catalogues and can see "iust
where you made your mistake"
During the last few years there has
been a regular poultry craze The Pc
riod of high prices of food products,
and especially Of chicken yard eat
ables, has turned the city mans at
tention countryward. IF hen will
lay But what's the use? Just cut
! off the IF" and you'll solve the greatest
! problem in the hen culture ''biznis."
Failing to cut off the eff" just wiring
the hens neck
"But there certainly is money in the
business" said city man to me. II
pay 80 to so cents per dozen for fresh
eggs a month old and young broilers
from Is to so cents pound. There
| must be money in it,
''There u.s." I replied. 'That's just
the trouble. The moneys in it, all
right, all right. But it'll take another
John D. to get it out"
The symptoms Of the hen fever are
easily distinguished, and If you are
already inoculated probably you will
| give scant attention to this little trea-
| tise on chickenology. There is some
thing so peculiarly enticing about the
first dreams Of the opium eater that
the warnings Of millions Of others who
! have travelled the same path 20 I'M
| needed. There Is no one so expert in
! the fowl enterprise as the man who
has few we'll developed biddies in a
new house and on new land. 1t takes
only seven nights a week pouring
! over poultry papers and fanciers' cata-
| logues and a few days in the natural
laying season for the most inexperi-
enced man to pose as "know it alr'
In the society Of Cut-cut- ca docket
vile.
This story costs you little or nothing,
but it cost me $1,435.72; hence have
a right to tell it.
Likes a Change of Scene.
The first thing to remember is that
no matter how much you may know or
think you know about chickens nor
how much practical experience you
may have rubbed into the skin, there
will always be new conditions and
new problems in the same flock. No
rule will always work the same, and
the methods employed this season by
which you are successful will prove
utterly inadequate next time. For this
information you can thank me- You'll
never find 1t out from reading any
poultry paper nor from the supply
house catalogues A hen likes change
Of scene, she likes new scratching
ground, and unless your neighbor
keeps garden Mrs. Hen will be quite
miserable. Give her new house and
new front yard every year and many
of the poultryman's troubles will dis.
appear. But how many Of us have {
forty acre farm or can afford new
hen palace every spring?
Do not think because a few hen:
pay that fifty times as many would
| pay just fifty times as much. YOU
are likely to get your labor for you
pains. Four years ago 1 bought {
dozen pure blood White Plymouth
; Rocks of a leading fancier. They wer'
snow white, beautiful birds. They be
:, gan laying the latter part of Novem
Der, and during the winter months
; gathered sol eggs. This was an excel
lent record. At the end Of the frs
: year my account with the hens stoot
gross $3.50, and after figuring thei
l leu Diil anu ueuuSlluS S1O iultlSSC VI
their lodging the twelve pullets hat
netted me about 50 each. OF course
/! did not figure in the time spent, bu
the amusement and exercise the bird
afforded Cancelled that account.
Broiler Business Studied.
I had sold number Of the increase,
flock as broiiers from June until Al
gust at prices ranging from 20 to
cents per pound, and this inciden
turned my attention to the possibilitie
of the broiler business. began study
ing catalogues for broiler house equip
ment and soon had a house Is by
feet, divided into pens and heated wit
hot water system with twelve pipes
top heat. / figured that I could haI
die 1000 chicks month and in tim
have 500 or 1000 laying hens on th
five acres Of ground Additional build