The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-17
WANT SOME MONEY.
RAISE CHICKENS!
Queen of the Barnyard Offers Big
Profits at Small Out
lay.
FLOODED STOCK BEST
Scrub Chickens Will Not Lay as
Frequently as Pure
Breeds.
BY c. +. Miller.

! The great advantage of the poultry
! business is that ii Is open to all No
4 matter whether one has but back
I yard of city lot, couple OF acres
! in 1t, provided it is run in an up to
/ date way.
| 1t needs no large amounts invested
! in fancy houses, patent roosts. patent
/ nests and the like all these are made
! to sell. Always keep IN mind that
/ there are possibilities in the business
! and there is plenty of room at the
I top OF the ladder.
The Xastness OF the poultry bust
| ness in the United States for the year
/ 1909. is almost beyond comprehen-
sion. Tho vaule of poultry and eggs
/ consumed by the people of the United
! States amounted to the almost in
! credible sum of nearby 100000. 600.
Some will say that poultry keeping
! Is only childs play. fit for the
/ Women Folks to fuss with, but
not "a fit occupation for a man"
! To make a start YOU do not need
| thousands for capital, nor do you
I need 4 factory filled with expensive
| machinery. which in the end pays
but small percentage yearly on the
| Invested capital. A setting OF eggs
viii cost you bat small sum; a set
| ting hen not over seVenty-five cents
and your grocer will probably not
charge you any thing for the box.
Just three weeks and the downy lit
tie chaps viii be out scratching for
| their first food or a stray worm,
The old hen and chicks will thrive
we'll on what table scraps which are
left and in the fall you will have a
few cockerels to sell or to use as
breeders: provided, YOU have made
the right start and purchased thor
oughbred stock instead of scrubs and
you care TO advertise in some good
advertising medium like the 'Vir-
gilman" which goes ont to thousands
of readers on farms and in rural sec
tons throughout the state.
Quality IN Improving.
For many years people held on to
that worm eaten story that If he was
simply raising poultry for market
any old thing would do so long as
II wore feathers, but as the years
glided by there were fewer who stuck
to that idea, now the time is not far
distant when a majority of the far
mers viii dispell this idea and then
We will have what we have been
clamorfng for the last ten years
Better poultry and more OF it,
The only extra expense in getting
IL staFt WIS pure pred DiTuE Ia COM
pared with thA~a" s0rub" stock ia in
the first cost, and few dollars spent
wisely an good stock at the outset
wifi come back to you over and over
in the long run. For instance. we
will take II for granted that you
have purchased setting of eggs for
thirty cents tScrubs OF course1 which
when Matched will be all colors,
shapes and sizes and will look like
the proyerbial thirty cents" Con-
sidering the money only, the scrubs"
look like bargain when you pay
from $50 to $500 for a setting OF
pure BREEDS The first cost OF secur-
ing the pure breds has been from
s1.2o to $40 more than was paid
for the scrubs" But suppose we
raise from the scrubs and a like
number from the purebreds and you
Will gladly see the three to Ave cents
per pound that the market man will
gladly give you for the pure hrede
In excess of the price he will offer
you for the scrubs" and this extra
will more than repay the extra mon
ely expended for the start.
Scrubs" Not Advisable.
Common or scrub" chickens as
every one knows. are a mixed lot of
all colors and sizes. Some viii lay
and some will not, and those that
do can only be depended on in the
Spring and summer months. hut THAR