Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-01
More and Better Poultry
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Poultry growing is an accessory TO
every properly conducted farm and OF
every rural home. The flesh OF fowls
Is priced as toothsome and nutritious
by all, while eggs-the most digost,be
form OF animal food-are coming
more and more into use. The reason
Is that It viii not be long before this
country viii have reached the limits
of It's capacity TO produce beef pork
and mutton, This VIII bring the pl ice
OF these meat foods higher and thus
the demand for poultry and eggs viii
be greater In the future than It has
ever been in the past.
In former times poultry-kocpng
was, and in n small degree Is yet a
side issue "A mere incident TO general
farming, It's responsibilities falling 10
the oyer-burdoued housewives. Tho
fowlA gathered their own subsistence
and received little care, II is only
in recent years that the business has
grown TO proportions OF notable
industry Now, throughout the United
States there are pretentious poultry
plants and egg farms and ON many
farms poultry Is given a large consld-
Grafton.
AZ this time more than a half hun
dred periodicals are devoted exclusive
ly to the promotion OF the poultry
interests, while every farm paper
gives liberal space IN behalf Of the
fowl tribe. Many books have been
written on the subject. some good,
some Indifferent and some bad. Agrl-
cultural colleges, experimental stations
and state departments and other insti-
tutlons and organizations are aiding
by making available, from time to
time, useful facts cleaned from expert
ments, Investigations and research.
likewise poultry shows have been OF
great value.
From the nature Of the Industry
poultry and eggs will be produced in
all portions OF the country; but as
might be expected, the business will
find it's greatest scope in areas pre-
senting the most favorable conditions
or such favored regions, none has nat
ural advantages superior to Tulsa
County. Here corn, oats, wheat, Kaf-
fir corn, milo-ma.ze and millet can be
produced I'm abundance, which alfal-
q 2Sarf Essex rape and winter rye
make excellent fall and winter pas
turage. NINA winters and early hatch
ing seasons q satly lessen the cost of
rearing and housing and her excellent
transportation facilities render Tulsa
County especially adapted for poul-
try's profitable production on an un-
limited scale.
So there is every inducement for
farmers to give to poultry the i'm
portance II deserves on the farm, And
since farmers all realize that well-bred
horses, cattle and hogs pay royal in
terest on money invested. they should
also soon discover that IL is equally
profitable to keep pure-bred poultry
If the farmers Of this county would
sell their mongrels and replace them
with pure-b bred stock of the American
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would be an increase Of at least fifty
per cent in the profits the first year.
Pure-bred fowls cost no more for food
and shelter while they give much bet
ter returns in eggs and the price Of
the carcass, to say nothing Of the sat
isfacton OF focks uniform In kind.
With good stock, good houses. mot
necessarily expensive ones) and prop
er care, the returns from the amount
OF money invested are larger than Win
any other class of stock.
II has been said that the poultry
business is the largest little busi-
ness in the country. II can be made
to yield profit on the smallest
amount Of capital invested. No other
can be started on next to nothing and
made TO grow in satisfactory proper
tions. Since women and children can
attend to the details, leaving the farm
er free 10 carry on the heavier work
of the farm, It affords an opportunity
not TO be underestimated.
The right to recognition may be
further indicated by the fact that In
1899, the total value OF barley, rye,
broom corn, rice, Kaffir
corn, flax, small fruits, grapes, all
orchard products, sugar cane and
sugar beets raised in the United
States, as reported by the census was
less than the earnings Of poultry.
Wool Is looked upon as an important
commodity, but the census showed
the value less than one-third that OF
poultry and eggs produced on Amen-
can farms. Oats Is a crop appreciated
by stock men. and potatoes are every
where staple, but the combined value
OF these two crops in 1907 was not
greater than the income OF fowls.
According to the census OF 1899, the
egg output was then valued at a
higher figure than the aggregated
gold and silver product Of the United
States in any year, for nearly a half
century, and poultry and eggs to-
gether in 1900 were worth more than
the worlds annual production OF
either gold or silver in any year, with
no exception, since the beginning OF
their records in 1893 They out
valued the total exports OF animals
and animal products during all the
years