The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-10
LARGE PROFIT IN POULTRY.
North Arkansas Suited to This
 Growing Industry.
From The Cotter Record.

From The Cotter Record
 If it is possible that North Ark anSas eXcels in it's natural fitness fer any one thing it is poultry raising. And today there is no industry more neglected in this country than the raising of poul- try, with the possible exception of fruit production. To probably raise poultry it is not necessary ta have the room required for fruit growing on a scale large enough to make it pay. An acre or two, up to five or ten acres, makes a very respectable poultry ranch. Even much less is used by the careful breeder with reasonable sue cess.
 North Arkansas by reason of it's climate, elevation, water, character of it's soil, sheltered from severe storms, nearness to market cepters, eheapness of feed and freedom from poultry dis eases makes poultry raising easy, pleasant and profitable. Less favored states with very few of these advan- tages lead us in production.
 On a small plat of ground the breed CT may have to buy every dollar 5 worth of feed, and even then with care will reap a profit of one hundred per cent. No other business with so small investment will yield so great returns. The receipts from p.U.,ry raising are constant, a source of IeVe- nue every day in the year. Consider today the man or woman with no more than two dozen properly cared for fowls, at least one dozen eggs per day at say 25 cents, $7.50 per month. The feed, if bought, costing at the extreme price S2 for the same length of time, a clear profit of $5.00 from two dozen l hens. One hundred fowls can be cared for with less trouble and expense in proportion than two dozen. A thous- and chickens can be well cared for upon ten acres of Iand. The income on the i two dozen chickens, half of them pro | ducing, is 23 cents each per month, on 100 hens S23, and oil 1000 at the same rate it is $23O. This is net profit after the feed bill is taken out. A profit of $230 per month is no small thing. How many Baxter county farmers tilling 160 acres of land can show as much, or even half as much? Not many. These figures do not take into consideration the market value of the chickens themselves, neither do they give within five cents on the dozen the present market price of choice, fresh eggs, and do give high CT price than is actually paid for feed. The figures given are conservative, actually below the results secured by careful poultry raisers.
 There is this to say, however: It takes good common sense and industry, but no more so than is necessary to succeed in any other line of business. One cannot take lot of scrub, pCor bred fowls, let them roost in the brush, trees or such places as they may be able to find, nest in the manager or under buildings, indifferently fed or not fed at all, little scrawny fowls that lay only a few weeks in the year, hatch and raise their broods by guess, and expect to make that sort of poultry business profitable. Too many try that plan, or, rather allow it to try itself, and then declare there is nothing in poultry.
 Get good fowls, pure blood, take proper care of them, and the business is as certain and safe as any other line of industry