The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-10
rAlcl:3c POULTRY AND FRUIT.
Money Car be Made on Small Farm
Near Good Markets.

handicapped by heavy debts incurred !
by the considerable working capital
necessary in operating these extensive
farms Thousands OF dollars are in.
vested in livestock. implements and
machinery. that are deteriorating each
day, and in many eases are cast aside
as worn Out out even before paid Tor
1t is 10 such unfortunate individuals
VINO are struggling along to pay IN
terest or borrowed capital that | will
describe what / consider more safe
ana sane method of earning living
on the farm, says writer in Tie
Country Gentleman Compared with
other branches Of farming. very
small amount of capital is required
and the help question is eliminated
from the business. which in itself is
worth a good many dollars each yeai
TO the man who, in order 10 pay the
men, has been compelled 10 deny him
self and family all the Injuries and
many Of the necessities OF life.
Ten or II acres situated near a good
market which insures top prices for
garden truck, fruit and poultry, will
keep one man out of mischief. but
when looked after iEtelligently. will
provide a good living from the start
A farm Of this size can usually be pl,r-
chased for from $1,000 to $1,000. and if
without the necessary poultry bulld-
lugs, these can be erected cheaply ac-
cording to the owners ideas. our
laying house is 100 by 10 feet, seven
feet high in front and four feet in
back, sheathed with barn boards and
rooted with Gull shingles, it is good
snug building for all that. The brood
er house is 40 by IL feet and was
originally a feed mill, which we tore
down and rebuilt within 50 feet of the
laying house Half dozen colony
houses complete the poultry buildings
which have a capacity OF 300 hens and
1000 Youngsters
The coming season we expect TO
double the size of the laying house
and add more colony houses Three
large incubators, having a capacity OF
1000 eggs. are located in the cellar OF
the house, where the temperature Is
even and moist enough to insure good
matches. The brooGer house is equipped
with hOt-air individual breeders. lined
up side by side, facing the south Each
brOoder stands back from the south
wall eight feet, which affords a louI
by eight runaway for each flock OF
chicks. This south wall is nearly solid
glass. three feet high from the floor
which allows the chicks an ideal play
ground when the weather prohibits
exercise in their outdoor runs
From the brooder house The chick
are moved to colony houses situated
In a young orchard adjacent to the
former building From there they
finally move either TO different home
as breeding stock, to the laying house
or In case of cuIls. to the fateung
coops. We raise entirely thorough
bred poultry of the white Plymouth
Rock, white Wyandotte, bluff Ply
mouth Rock. and Rhode Island red
breeds. good enough for the fancier to
win prizes with, but here bred for egg
production. 1t does not pay to fool
with scrub stock, as good prices can
be secured for breeding stock, and if
any surplus, the poultry buyer will
pay as much for a well-bred dressed
fowl as for one OF the variegated sort
We are running this II acres place
primarily as poultry farm, and our
poultry comes first but 50 we'll do
trucking and raising fruit fit in with
poultry rearing that nothing is slight
ed We are continually putting ont
more apples and peach trees. and be-
tween these young trees are straw
berries and vegetables principally
potatoes, tomatoes, sugar corn, linn
beans and cabbage Although we
bought one carload of manure this
season for our truck, another season
will see us we'll supplied with
chicken manure, which with that from
the horse and COW. will be sufficient
fer our crops,
We set apple trees 40 by 40 feet
with peach tree between each two
apple trees. BY this time the apple
trees are in bearing. the peach trees
will have outliyed their usefulness
and will be removed. Between these
rows of trees are our strawberries and
garden crops In cultivating and fer
tllizing the latter the trees get prob
ably more Of each than were they not
In such good company To illustrate
how we economic on room, sugar
corn is planted in rows with young
strawberry plants. Thus two crops are
practically grown at the cost OF one
and as the corn stalks are removed
from the row before the plants send
out runners. no harm is done in thus
crowding the Strawberries at the earl
ier period of their growth
With this combination of crops, one
man can handle 10 or l2-acre rarrl
nicely and make enough more from the
garden truck, than il used for corn