The Nevada County picayune., 1910-07-01
HEN GOOD MONEY PRODUCER
Plan Advocated by Mir. reapolis Man for Making Poultry
 Raising Profitable.

 reyglHtionize the egg and poultry in. dustry throughout the country. if not a large part of the world William H Bussey, a veteran chicken fancier Of the New York Life building, Mime arols is the man who started the idea and negotiations have been be- gun looking to it's being put into oper atien this year in the southern part of the state.
 Mir Bussoy's idea. which he has planned out completely, Is to have a cooperative hennery. the same as they operate creameries. He is en- thasiastie over the plan and claims tiat hs has many enthusiasts with him, who will show the farmers how 10 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 Mir Bussey. Tt is put up in 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 q much better price tan they could ever otherwise have hoped to obtain by the old method
 The conditions that exist today in regard to poultry raising are fin a measure similar to those previously mentioned in regard to buttermaking Poultry raising is too much of side line and for the most part fs conduct. cd in T haphazard manner. The poul. try plant on most farms allows 'roazttng' 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 irregulariy 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 10 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, If you please. 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 ta deliver his milk Here, to camm04ioHs and welllightcd apart. ments. tbe farmer brings his fowls in th" faIi. where he receives proper credit for them on some equitable basis Thy gre under the care and
 supervision of an attendant who un. derstaHas feeding. raising and market ing fowls and their products He se- 'ocls the ones for the market. sep arates them from the hons, and from the laying hens he eliminates the dranes. which. with the balance of those for market. he feeds proper food fer fattenng Then they go to the chopping block, while the layers are fed separately for egg production.
 Towards spring and long before the hens take q notion to set, the in cuh4ters in the cellar are grinding out the little fluffy fellows by the hun dreds. A few weeks in the brooder and they are on their legs and can be safely removed to outdoor breeders Nr Farmer then takes what he thinks he gaed housewife can properly care fer, say 5o LOO or 200. as they desire
 Here the little chicks eau enjoy tine outdoor life of the farm, gather, ing tte loose grains and helping the iareer ll4 the place of worms and bugs taar infest he premises, incl daatai3g lining his peekethook By fall they are all sooI husky bullets or coeherels The bullets are turned back into the henuery for winter lay ITS and the cccEereis go Tor broilers or raazters, as desired TGo old birds, at the option of the superintendent. can b. either retained as breeders or sent 10 the market If sueh a plan We've carried out. the fowls would re- CC.vc proper care and would yield far greater returns and the public-well, they would be eating fresh eggs The eoa' would he le4saned 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 welllighted, sanitary apartments, under proper supervision, the hens are laying The large eggs are then separated from h. -mall and the white ones from the brown These arc properly packed, abelad and stamped and sold for the