Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-01-13
FARM, ORCHARD & GARDEN
Something Of Interest For Everyone Better Methods For Pro-
ducng Profit and Caring for Stock

business he never mentioned; and his
poultry he talked about as often as
he got an interested listener.
He made the poultry business very
successful, and it was good evidence
to me that the complaints made by
so many that there was no money
in the business were but the natural
result of poor management.
This man selected the Barred Ply
mouth Rocks for his breed, because,
he said, he thought them the real
cuisines hen" They are an Ameri-
can breed; they are of good size and
even quite large when properly rails
ed; they are good layers, good set
ters and generally good mothers.
Then, too, on lis country place,
many hawks we're about at times,
and he thought the inconspicuous
grey color was the least likely to
attract them.
These points being settled, the
next thing was to start. l thought
he would build a half dozen houses,
fence up several acres of land and
buy at least a hundred hens and the
proper accompaniment of ROSTERS.
Most people who jump into the
poultry business without experience
are tempted to do that way. But
he didn't He built small house,
fenced up a small yard and bought
dozen hens and one rooster. Then
he subscribed to some poultry papers.
l think my friend must have had
good country raising, and a mother
who raised poultry and had learned
by experience all the points that
made success. At any rate, he didn't
do anything foolish.
His wife was a city-bred woman.
so he attended to the chickens. ]
never saw a man who seemed to find
working with chickens such an at
tractive business. He seemed to find
looking after the hens and the fluffy
little chicks a strong reminder of his
boyhood days That was the great
est pleasure of his life. good many
of his friends guyed him considerably
about his 'bankrupting investment, q
but all of them who could do so
sought his eggs and chicks.
am not going into details in this
venture; they are like those of every
other man who is level-headed and
puts money and energy into any sort
of enterprise that is normally profit.
able. He made a success, made it pay
we'll. and he certainly enjoyed it
And now he has gone out of the fin.
ancial business and is concentrating
his efforts on poultry. He has made
a competency, and is tired of the com.
mercial game that keeps a man per.
petually on the rack.
His business was exciting, and OF
course, interesting, and with luck he
made money; his poultry business i.
quiet and restful; he is in touch will
Nature and gets the enjoyment thai
thing Of interest in itself, with NJ
thought of the money involved car
give a man.
There is a lesson in this that man,
men so situated may learn will
value to themselves. Making money
is very pleasant if one needs money
but raising chickens, cattle, horses
or crops appeal to something better
in a man than filthy lucre" can, anC
it gets one back to Nature where the
greatest real satisfaction can be had
Much of my life I have played the
commercial game myself; l have qui
it, and the things that l found so sat
isfactory as a boy, when / had chick
ems, colt, calf and some pigs OF
the farm. I am now finding more
pleasure than working and succeed
ing in making money.
It is a restful sort of life, an il
apt to appeal irresistibly to mel
who passed their younger days OF
a farm.-R. B. A.. Nebraska, in Farm
Progress.