The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-30
HEN GOOD MONEY PRODUCER
Cooperative Plan Advocated by Min. neapolis Man for Making Poultry
 Raising Profitable.

| htAS te5o lllu pOulliH IH- dustry throughout the country. if not large part of the world William H. Bussey, veteran chicken fancier of the New York Life building, Mime apolis, Is the man who started the Idea, and negotiations have been be- gun looking to its being put into oper- alton this year in the southern part of the state.
 MT. Busseys idea, which he has planned out completely, is to have a cooperative hennery, the same as they operate creameries. He is en- thusl&stic over the plan and claims that he has many enthusiasts with him, who will show the farmers how to make real hen money.
 Today the modern creamery with US up-to-date machinery and scientific methods handles and markets the but ter In the most advantageous man. ner, said MT. Bussey Tt is put up m the most attractive packages, nice. " labeled and weighed, ready for the consumer. Thus not only large amount of labor for the individual farm hand is saved, but much larger return is yielded, at the same time giving to the trade something more uniform in flavor and coloring. By such a method the farmers get a much better price than they could ever otherwise have hoped to obtain by the old method.
 The conditions that exist today in regard to poultry raising are in measure similar to those previously mentioned in regard to buttermakine Poultry raising is too much of a side. line and for the most part is conduct. ed in haphazard manner. The poul try plant on most farms allows roasting 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 irregularly 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 to be kept-a 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. d1ed and then offered to the public for what they will bring. Certainly not very desirable pedigree.
 Quite in contrast to this, imagine. II you please, a 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 to deliver his milk. Here, to conimodious and well-lighted apart ments, the farmer brings his fowls in the fall, where he receives proper credit for them on some equitable basis. They are under the care and supervision of an attendant who un- derstands feeding, raising and market ing fowls and their products. He se- lects the ones for the market, sep arates them from the hens, and from the laying hens he eliminates the drones, which, with the balance of those for market, he feeds proper food for fattening. Then they go to the chopping block, while the layers are fed separately for reproduction.
 Towards spring and long before the hens take notion to set, the in- cubators 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. MT. Farmer then takes what he thinks the good housewife can properly care for, say 50, 100 or 200, as they desire.
 Here the little chicks can enjoy the outdoor life of the farm, gather. ing the loose grains and helping the farmer rid the place of worms and bugs that infest the premises, incl dentally lining his pocketbook. By fall they are all good, husky bullets or cockerels. The bullets are turned back into the hennery for winter lay CTS and the cockerels go for broilers or roasters, as desired. The old birds, at the option of the superintendent, can be either retained as breeders or sent to the market If such a plan were carried out, the fowls would re- ceive proper care and would yield far greater returns and the public-well, they would be eating fresh eggs. The cost would be lessened and greater re- suits would be obtained, and the farm CT. as we'll as the public, would be benefited
 While the blasts of winter are bowling without and the mercury drops to zero, here in welI-lighted, sanitary apartments, under proper supervision, the hens are laying The large eggs are then separated from the small and the white ones from the brown. These are properly packed, labeled and stamped and sold for the highest market price, while the farm. CT, sitting by his fireside, draws the