Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-23

from Duluth, taking charge Of some
construction camps on the Duluth,
Rainy Lake and Winnipeg railroad.
As hardly any Of the land was sur
veyed and very little Of II settled, h,
decided TO take a homestead. He Sc
lccted our present home, which l..
about 40 miles from the Canadian
border AS our home is on the town
line. we knew, OF course, that II woulu
: not be long Until we would have a
}, road. The railroad runs north and
south through our farm, and we In
duced the company to establish flag
station. so at present we are very
nicely located for poultry raising.
The first summer ! was up here
decided TO raise chickens. but was en-.
tirely ignorant OF the care Of fowls.
I walked four miles through the woods
and bought two very ancient mongrel
hens. carried them home; well
pleased with my trip. In June, 1904.
went to Tower, Mimi, about 80
miles from here, and bought six more
hens. got two Brown Leghorns, two
parred Rocks ana two mongreI hens
in that lot One old hon stole a nest
and batcbed - little chicks. the 9th.
or sev,n hens laid inst 20 eggs all
/; SIMMER Az there was no store or
postofice nearer than Tower, feed was
. hard TO get and mail we did not look
for.
! Maxim the Start
Tho fail of 1904 tho town of Cook
, was established two and a half miles
5 from here n postoff,ce was nut I'm and
friend sent mo n farm magazine
) which contained several poultry hints
an reading etc which | studied earn.
, es,Iv Reading how other people were
making nou,trv nav I decided that I
could do the same, In the winter of
1904 INV two Brown I.eghorns froze TO
|. death had barred plymouth
Rock rooster given to me and as the
Rocks seemed an hardy. I killed the
otber hon. on and kent the b, p.
, Rocks. Nv reading the poultry pa.
pers started a system with my work
and In IN. war 1ao5 got 400 eggs
!, from NV two hans and setting each
hon twice I raised 50 chickens. |
bouybt II ,ittle chicks three weeks
old and had Thorn n week when a
skupk killed them all or the SO
batcbea I raised every one and there
. were only I, roosters leaving me
forty nuI,ets and great expectations
for the coming summer But a weasel
!. k,,ed all INV chickens hut 10 in one
night As this country is heavily
t,mbered with poplar and we started
without n dollar nv husband had to
e work away from home all winter to
i earn enough TO keen us through the
E summer. while he tried to clear a little
/ land I had n baby at that time, Ave
months old. I was certainly discour.
a aped after working SO hard and to
e ana most of my chickens dead.
e brought all the live ones into the
IS bouse and took n gun TO watch for
II the weasel I sat IN two nights be
}, fore I got him
J. eoues,t an Incubator.
7 beIieve that was when my luck
started IN change I borrowed some
e money and bouCht a hot air incubator
e 60 eggs capacIty. In the spring OF
e ,eoG I oct the incubator with go eggs
lie and got 81 chicks. As had no brood
ia or lot a hen take care OF them in
IL the day time and all she could not
N cover I brought IN the house at night.
Tho second hatch I got a. chicks NV
hons Matched 40 Ont Of the 1879 hatch
ed I raised 1o5 and had only 20 roost
e ers In the lot which we used on the
O. table The summer NJ 1905 nv bus
hand exed nm an old camn and also
hni,t . march house tOx1O feet out O,
,oys and hull, .no,ber building arount
Tho, lava foot and Allied the snac,
with dirt having a door leading into
,hs camn which wo called n harm. n,
N nar,,t,oncd tho harm on Leaving nj,
+ mace 9sxIs foe, for n scratcbin,
Il shad Cor Tho Mons and I mn, in ba,
ahor, civ inches daon for them 1,
scratch In had a feed bopner mad,
and mad n dr,nking fountain myse,
ora ,ho hons soon,ad well n,ease,