The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-28
MONEY IN MATCHING CHICKS.
Summer Work of an Ulster County
Farmers Wife Nets Her a Couple
of Hundred Dollars Season.

There is woman in Ulser county,
n. y, who adds couple of hundred
dollars TO her income by Matching and
selling one day old chicks. She keeps
fifty hens and during the othel
months of the year she devotes her
spare time to raising broilers for
marker. Being farmers wife, !
have less time to give to chicken
raising during the summer she ex-
planned to the reporter. THAT is one
reason why find selling chickens
more profitable than raising them.
"Of course the eggs would always
bring good price because my hens
are all thoroughbreds, but then again
there would be the extra trouble OF
packing and shipping at the season
yhen the price OF even the best eggs
is lowest. Broilers also bring less al
this season than at any other time In
the year. Trouble and time consia
cred, get more by Matching out my
eggs and selling the one day old.
chicks.
"The business itself is very simple.
With my hens furnishing the best
eggs there only remains putting them
in the incubators, keeping them al
the right temperature, taking out the
chicks and packing and shipping
them.
There Is no food put in the ship.
ping box nor is there any feeding be
fore shipping 1t is this fact that
makes the business possible and.
might say, adds little to the profits.
THE chickens should be taken from
the incubator as soon as they are dry,
which will be a few hours after they
come out of the shell, and packed in
boxes about six inches deep, carefully
covered with layer of burlap over
which Stats are fastened so as to pro
tect the chicks from injury. Small
holes should be bored in the boxes
near the top to secure sufficient ven
tilation and at the same time protect
the chicks from all danger of getting
chilled. | pack my chicks quite
closely, not only for the sake of saw
ing space, but also because they stand
less chance OF getting bruised and
will keep each other at the right tenn
perature.
while | have heard of chicks be-
Ing safely shipped more than thou
sand miles have never sent any
more than couple Of hundred miles.
My patrons are all families who move
into the country during the summer
and prefer to raise chickens for their
own table. There Is not the slightest
doubt but chickens carefully raised
and fed at home make the best eating
have always advised people who
come into the country for few
months In the year TO have chicken
runs, even II small, and TO raise their
own broilers.
until one becomes accustomed to
it managing incubators is quite a
y
learned in season. With good
brooder. which is never expensive,
and chicken run as large as your lot
will permit there is no reason why
almost anybody shouldn't have the
pleasure OF raising his own chickens.
with each box of chicks enclose
a little printed slip saying just how
and when they should be fed and
watered at first. After that all that
is required Is good food, clean water
and enough ground space 10 peck
gravel and stretch their growing
limbs. OF course 1t is better If they
can have a grass plot, but that can be
omitted If fresh vegetables are furn-
ished several times q week.
II have several customers who as
sure me they never buy food for their
chicks, but feed them entirely on
scraps from the table and pickings
from the uncooked vegetables On
the other hand, there are others who
feed their chicks entirely on certain
foods with the idea of having a par
ticular flavor. The difference lies In
the people and not in the chicks; one
person prefers TO make trouble and
the other wants TO save It.
my season begins the second week
In April and lasts until the middle OF
August Chicks bought In April VIII
be ready for the table In June, and
those bought in August are for use
during the last weeks for the family's
stay In the country, Or perhaps, as is
sometimes the case, they are kept and
killed, being shipped into town as re-
CURED. People tell me 1t Is pretty
hard to get back to using dressed
chickens after having become accus-
toned to chickens Of their own rails
ing, and for that reason they like to
have a few left over TO keep the
taste In their mouths as long as pos.
sible.
"All my orders are booked before
the season opens. That Is necessary
for an intelligent management Of my
business OF course | could. and do
often, have few chicks left over. but