The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-07-07
POULTRY SHOW A NECESSITY.
Discussion of Poultry Opportunities
In Southern Idaho.


Arrangements are being made to
hold a poultry show in Wendell dur
ing the coming poultry show season,
probably in December. and everyone
interested in poultry should help to
make this show a success because
there is no part of the. country that is
more favorably located or better
adapted to poultry raising than the
valley of the Snake river
1t is destined to become one of the
great poultry producing sections of
revenue for the people who live in this
favored country.
Poultry and eggs are two products
which are always in, demand every
where at prices which return a profit
to the. producer There is no farm
product which is certain to meet with
a ready sale as the products of the
poultry yard, with the possible excep-
ton of dairy products The poultry
man can come nearer forecasting the
amount of his income than the pro-
duce of any other farm product. He
can estimate very closely the cost of
producing eggs or poultry and he can
bable price, with a good prospect al
ways that his poultry and eggs will
sell for higher price next year than
they bring him this year, because the
unyarying course of prices for the
product of the poultry yard has been
upward for about fifteen years.
Always excepting dairy products,
there are no farm crops which come
into market condition as steadily, the
year through as poultry products
They come steadily every week in the
year and are a source of ready money
while the staples such as grain and
live stock are being fitted for sale The
grain farmer must wait six months for
his crops to mature and the live stock
producer must wait longer The poul-
tryman has eggs for sale every week
and may have poultry to market every
week after he has his business prop
erly arranged. The poultry yard
should bring in a considerable part of
the revenue from every ranch in this
country. Barring few di. culties
which are probably only matters for
this year the rearing of poultry is a
safe, certain and profitable industry
for the people of southern Idaho to
take up.
Where the poultryman raises his
own grain, eggs and poultry may be
produced at the minimum cost and as
cheap here as at any other, place in
the United States. Wheat, oats, bar
ley, sunflower seeds and other grains
perhaps, such as kaffir earn, grow
here as well as any other place Po-
tatoes too small for market may be
sold profitably by feeding them to lay
ing hens and the king of all poultry
feed, alfalfa, finds here a congenial
home. Where a supply of green al
falfa is available for laying hens in
summer and nicely cured alfalfa hay
can be had in winter the bill for grain
can be cut in half and the hens will
lay better and be more healthy than
they would on any combination of
grains. | consider alfalfa of more
value than meat feeds for laying hens
and from short experience am inclined
to believe that with plenty of alfalfa
hens do not require meat in. order to
do their best as layers.
The climate here is ideal for poultry
raising. In the famous Petaluma dis
trict of California, where the egg-pro-
duction averages $4,000 day, the eli
mate is not nearly SO well adapted to
poultry raising as is the climate of
southern Idaho. In Petaluma there
are very chilly days throughout a
large part of the season, while here
the weather is sunny almost every
day from the time Matching begins I'M
til the chicks are full grown. / have
never seen any part of the country
where chicks grew as rapidly as they
do here here with as little attention.
All around Wendell there are hun
dreds of little chicks growing rapidly
while running as they will in the sage
brush. / believe land covered with
sage brush will be found to make the
ideal chicken run. The sage brush
makes shade enough for the little
chicks without making the ground
damp and | frequently see lot of
chicks lying in luxury in the sand UNI
der sage bush, comfortable in the
hottest weather.
1t would not require very many
ranch flocks of laying hens to pro-
duce carload of eggs a day and as
soon as Wendell gets a reputation for
eggs and poultry in large
quantities there will be an outside de-
mand which will absorb any possible
surplus. The state of Idaho alone will
probably always use all the poultry
and eggs produced within it's borders,
The arabic land is such a small poF-
ton of the whole state that stock
ranches, mines, lumber camps and the
towns in the localities devoted to
these industries will always call for
poultry and eggs in large quantities.
Even if the state should have a sur
pulls to send outside there is large
market open to poultrymen.- Miller
Purvis, in Wendell Irrigationist.
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