The Green Forest tribune., 1910-07-01
HEN GOOD MONEY PRODUCER
Cooperative Plan Advocated bv Mi. neapoIls Man for Making Poultry
 Raising Profitable.

"inS9' NIlnheapohs has now taken the leau Ill a new proposition, which may feVolut1onize the egg and poultry in. austry throughout the country if not a large part of the world. William IT Bussey, a veteran chicken fancier of the New York Life building, Minne- apolis, is the man who started the idea, and negotiations have been he. 1 gun looking to it's being put into eper. ation this year in the southern mart 1 of the state.
 MT. Bussey's idea, which he has planned out completely, is to have cooperative hennery, the same as they operate creameries. He is en- thusiastic oyer the plan and claims that he has many enthusiasts With him, who will show the farmers how to make real hen money.
 Today the modern creamery with it's up-to-date machinery and scientific methods handles and markets the but ter in the most advantageous man ner,' said MT. Bussey. Tt is put up Ill the most attractive packages, nice ly labeled and weighed, ready for the consumer. Thus not only a large amount of labor for the individual farm hand is saved, but a much larger return is yielded, at the same time giving to the trade something more uniform in flavor and coloring. By such method the farmers get a much better price than they could ever otherwise have hoped to obtain by the old method
 The conditions that exist today in regard to poultry raising are in a measure similar to those previously mentioned in regard to buttermaking. Poultry raising is too much of a side line and for the most part is conduct ed in haphazard manner. The poul- try plant on most farms allows 'roosting' anywhere and laying everywhere. The fowls are fed most ly on corn which, of itself, is a very good heat producer, but never made an egg when fed to the exclusion of other diet The method of marketing both poultry and eggs is as fully open to criticism as the manner in which they are housed and fed.
 The eggs are irregularly gathered and dumped indiscriminately into baskets and they are carried to the corner grocery. good bad and indif- ferent, large, small, white and brown. there to be kept week or more be- fore they are shipped to market Even here they are received in a more or less doubtful condition to be rehan- dled and then offered to the public for what they will bring. Certainly not very desirable pedigree.
 Quite in contrast to this, imagine, II you please, a well-kept hennery, fully equipped with all the necessary apparatus for handling and housing fowls, located conveniently near the creamery, where the farmer goes daily to deliver his milk. Here, to commodious and well-lighted apart ments, the farmer brings his fowls in the fall, where he receives proper credit for them on some equitable basis. They are under the care and supervision of an attendant who un- derstands feeding, raising and market ing fowls and their products He se- lects the ones for the market sep arates them from the hens, and from the laying hens he eliminates the drones. which, with the balance of those for market, he feeds proper food for fattening. Then they go to the chopping block, while the layers are fed separately for egg-production.
 Towards spring and long before the hens take a notion to set, the in cubators in the cellar are grinding out the little fluffy fellows by the hum dreds. A few weeks in the brooder and they are on their legs and can be safely removed to outdoor breeders. MT. Farmer then takes what he thinks the good housewife can properly care for, say 50. 100 or 200 as they desire.
 Here the little chicks can enjoy the outdoor life of the farm, gather ing the loose grains and helping the | farmer rid the place of worms and bugs that infest the premises, incl dentally lining his pocketbook. By fall they are all good, husky bullets or | cockerels. The bullets are turned back into the hennery for winter lay CTS and the cockerels go for broilers | oi IOlSIClS D do dSSll Su. l He Olu DlTQS, at the option of the superintendent, can be either retained as breeders or sent to the market. If such a plan were carried out, the fowls would re- ceive proper care and would yield far greater returns and the public--well, they would be eating fresh eggs. The cost would be lessened and greater re- suits would be obtained, and the farm CT, as well as the public, would be | benefited.
 While the blasts of winter are bowling without and the mercury drops to zero, here in well-lighted, sanitary apartments, under proper supervision, the hens are laying. The large eggs are then separated from the small and the white ones from the brown. These are properly packed, labeled and stamped and sold for the highest market price, while the farm CT, sitting by his fireside, draws the dividends"