The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-18

AOO11 III IN G1Es1Nkf FOR WOMHN.
The women of America are fast fill
ing the ranks OF our fanciers and
poultry keepers, and it is only ques-
tion Of time when women will be just
as actively engaged in poultry keep
ing as men. The raising of poultry
is a business that is peculiarly adapt
ed to women; their hereditary edu-
cation has fitted them for it and to be
the best of caretakers. In the rails
ing Of poultry. the strictest attention
to the minute details of the business
is necessary to the attainment of any
great degree of success, and here is
where women easily excel men. a
woman will go out in the rain and get
soaking wet in order to see if the
chicks are dry, while man will stay
in the house until the rain is over
and let the chicks take care Of them
selves during the rain.
Then again, women are naturally
more gentle in disposition than men,
and since gentleness is very conduct
i've to good results with poultry, wom-
en- are better fitted to look after the
fowls. If the fowls get to "scrapping, Z
a woman will gently part them before
they have injured themselves or per-
haps trampled upon and injured a
number OF little chicks, while man
viii stand by and watch the fun"
go off, and he will let them fight it
out If it takes all summer and kills
or injuries lot of his little chicks.
But then. it is just as well that he
does let til em fight it out for il he did
conclude to separate them, the
chances are that he would throw one
over the poultry house and kick the
other one over the garden wall.
Women. as rule, are eminently
we'll suited to the poultry business
and the work is most fascinating. ire
spective Of the dollars and cents 1t
brings in for the successful woman.
Ut is work, not play, in all of its many
branches, but it is work that is
healthgiying. interesting and not
too heavy for the weaker sex There
are many branches in the business,
and one branch will pay better in one
section of the country than will an
other; but the three main lines "a.
eggs for market. with carcasses as
adjuncts; b, broilers, with or without
eggs, as adjuncts; {. fancy stock, with
few market eggs and carcasses as
adjuncts- will, each and every one,
49, = forft;xnofn and coficfonf0rv
profit to every one if managed proper
ly OF course, the branch that best
lfts persons own individual makeup
and conditions is the one that will
pay that person the best profit all
other things being equal.
AS an exclusive business poultry
raising offers excellent inducements
tc ambitious beginners. According
to the amounts invested there is no
other business which is nearly so prof
table as the poultry business, and
there is no other business that can
be started on so small capital, which
pays such handsome profits: and
again, there is no other business
where the returns come in SO quickly.
More than one person has started
with practically nothing and in a few
years, comparatively speaking, has
built up poultry business which has
paid handsome annual profit, and
to use slang expression, "put him
on Easy Street" I
There are many persons of moder-
ate means, who perhaps have had
some little experience with raising
poultry, who get to wondering if it
will pay to breed. poultry on q
large scale. and If it would be good
policy to give up a fair paying clerk
slfn Or 4 small business to engage in
A. such questions are very difIicult
to answer to the satisfaction Of all
persons concerned, for in nearly every
department OF human industry much
than on the business; and where one