Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-23
TO WOMEN PoULTR1sTS

is cents per dozen and could not buy
feed and sell eggs at that price.
sold all my hens but sixty and Just
raised chickens for my own use
About Christmas, 1907. eggs were very
,carce. as the weather was so cold
nobody's hens seemedto be laying but
mine. The stores offered me rs cents
per dozen. told them they would
iave to pay me 40 cents a dozen or
let me have feed at rs cents per
sack. They paid 40 cents until March
when other peoples hens started TO
lay; then they would not buy my eggs
at any price. In April there was no
feed of any kind in town 80 went
! to the conductor on the freight train
and asked him to bring me sack
Of feed from Virginia, MIMI, 80 miles
from here. As he would not accept
any money for getting the feed I gave
him four dozen fresh eggs and then
!. he wanted some every week and the
other train men wanted some. From
April, 1908, to the present date.
have sold to the trainmen no less
than twelve dozen eggs week al
prices ranging from rs cents per doz'
en- to SIS cents.
Last year got rid of some of the
old hens. and some Of the pullets.
keeping only one hundred. My pullets
started laying December first and
averaged so eggs a day from the first
Of October to the present date, March
1910. made a profit Of 1928 80 on
sixty hens in one year Goa to 'Os)
and sl32.90 the next year COS to 09)
and last year cleared 1864 on hun
dred hens. but we raised some grain
which helped me out, although
charged It up to them. ! had 1877
chicks batched Feb. 22nd, 1910.
A Dwelling Built.
| was laughed at and ridiculed by
everyone, about my chicken farm In
this cold climate, but my husband has
not worked away from home for two
years and the people that laughed at
me are away working from early fall
to late spring and living in their lit
tie log cabins. BY practicing economy
and keeping close watch over my lit.
tie flock, keeping them free from yer.
min and healthy. we will soon move
into our new home, a seven.room
frame house which we would not have
had II had not been able to keep
things running with chicken money
/ so that my husband was able to work
at home. We have twenty acres clear
ed and under cultivation, and will!
raise enough wheat and oats to keep
the hens, SO from now on my profits
will be larger. and intend to In.
crease my flock until have the .larg'
est chicken farm In the world.
have fought opposition, weasels
skunks and hawks and have come
out victorious.
The feed for my fowls is as follows;
oyster shells. grit, bran, charcoal and
water always before them. They have
dust bath into which pour pint
of kerosene once week stirring U
through the dust thoroughly. ! give
fourteen quarts of skim milk day
For mash save all the vegetable
parings, the juice meat is boiled II
and gravy, and cook IL: then l thick
en- Il with middiings or bran and feet
as hot mash three times a week, a
night in cold weather. Their break
fast is a lO-pound pail of oats scat
tered in straw. A 10-pound pail o
cracked corn is fed at night whei
the mash Is not fed. e.
| made my water fountain In tn
following manner: took a tin pal
| large enough for my flock. punches
two holes with nail about an Incl
from the top. filled II with water an
placed basin over the top OF IN
! pail. deep enough to cover the hoie
and inverted the arrangement. ! us
a corn can and saucer for little chicks
The bran, charcoal, etc, are kept u
IA hopper partitioned for each feed.
also have an automatic louise killel
+ took a two quart, Theoretically sea
cd syrup pail. cut slit In the bottor
wide enough to pass a No. lamp vic
: through, let the wick hang out abou
! two inches, pounded the tin tigh
around the wick. I put In about on
pint of kerosene, put the cover o
tight and hang It over the small opel
ing the chickens pass through In tn
door. I have a. piece OF strap naiie
on the door with a harness snap
J. hang the pail on, having 1t Just hig
>.o,,,h 40 tho wick will brush the