The Colorado statesman., 1910-10-08
was twenty feet long, twenty feet
wide, with an open front.

was twenty feet long, twenty feet
wide, with an open front.
The pullets began laying about Octo-
ber 1st. We let few people have
few eggs, and after that, we could not
keep an egg for ourselves. The next
year, we were able to build another
long house, fifty feet long, that would
hold 300 more birds. That year we
sold eggs for Matching, broilers and
eggs and the table and could not think
of supplying the trade. The next year,
we still increased our stock and had
to build two more long houses and an
incubator and brooder house, with a
Matching and brooding capacity of a
thousand chickens.
At the beginning of my third year
in the business, my brother became
interested in the business, and we add
ed pigeons to our stock. We now have
over one thousand pairs of brooding
homers, and sell squads to the finest
trade in the city of Washington, D. c.
(Applause.)
We have found out that it pays to
produce goods better than the other fell
low, and our every effort has been
along that line, and we have never
been able to think of supplying the
demand.
Four years ago the place was bought
for three hundred dollars ($300.00);
today it could not be bought for seven
thousand dollars ($7,O0OOO). We now
employ four men and a woman, be-
sides my brother, his wife, my wife
and myself. | used to carry eggs in a
basket, now we have four horses to do
the work. That has been our success
to date.
The possibilities of the chicken bust
ness are unknown. There is more
money made for the amount invested
than any other business that | know
of. Just think, one egg will produce
other eggs in six months, and every
egg will produce other eggs, if cor
rectly handled.
Remember that nature intended that
the hen should manufacture eggs; she
is simply nothing but machine; if
you give her the material to make the
egg, she cannot help from laying any
more than she cannot help from eat
| ing But you cannot expect her to lay
pure clean wholesome eggs when poor
ly or improperly fed, or allowed to
| drink from mud holes, stagnant pools
or old rusty, dirty drinking vessels.
When you stop to think that the egg
% hot hn
eats, you will readily see the need of
giving them nothing but pure, clean,
wholesome food to eat and pure, clean
water to drink.
Then keep only the busy working
the one that is Off the roost the
first thing in the morning and is busy
working all day long. The one that is
here, there and everywhere; picking
here, scratching there, getting worm
| here, a bit of grain, shell or bone
there, who is busy turning out one OF
the grandest and most nutritious prod
ucts known for human consumption.
Remember that it is the hustling
hen, like the hustling men, working
from dawn until long past the setting
sun, then success is assured.
Our place is five miles from the city
of Washington, d. c., on five-acre
tract of land, and connected with the
city by telephone; on this small farm
we raise and keep annually about 1,O00
hens; these hens have laid from fif-
teen to thirty dozen eggs day, and
these eggs sold from 80 to 60 cents
dozen, depending upon the season OF
the year Up to this time we have
had to buy all of the food used on the
place, but this year we are growing
| our food on an additional twenty-seVen
acre tract of ground that we have
leased for that purpose with the idea
of buying it.
Mr.. President, we are crying for the
door of opportunity to open for our
young men and women. Now | want
to say that there is no better door than
the poultry business. Just think that
of all the products in this great coun-
try, poultry and poultry products equal
that of corn and wheat combined, and
still the demand is greater than the
supply.
But let me make it plain to you, you
must stick through thick and thin,
through prosperity and reverses. and
success is sure.