The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-03
Advice to Beginners
In Poultry Business.
BY w. w. Moore.

poultryn1an should know as much
about his business as the banker, mer-
chant or manufacturer.
Many failures are due directly to the
lack of foresight and preparation. No
man should make the mistake of grow
ing more birds than he has ample room
for, and yet this mistake is common
cause of failure. 1t is an easy matter
to take care of 500 or 600 small chicks
on few small lots, but as they grow
to maturity these quarters will become
entirely too small. filth will begin to
accumulate. a few days or weeks of
rainy weather will follow, and disease
will soon come, causing loss upon loss.
and encouragement is usually next on
the program. To avoid all this the
breeder must have enough foresight to
enough room, or about ten times as
much when the fowls are grown as
when they are a few weeks old.
In this case 1t will be well enough to
count your chicks before they are
Matched, and figure out beforehand
how much room will be needed, and
ample provisions made.
Another great mistake is made in
not keeping constantly in touch with
the current market prices for market
poultry. By a careful study of market
conditions, the pouitryman can plan to
nave HIS STOCK ready IOT
when the highest prices can be OBJ
tanned, or he may find out that there
are other markets he can get besides
the one near him.
| Many times where the market ad-
vances, the grower holds his stock
thinking 1t will go still higher and
while he is waiting the bottom drops
out of the market" and he loses
heavily.
In the construction of new houses,
pens, etc, the same lack Of forethought
is often shown. In building your
houses take time, study, plan, investi-
gate and find out what sort Of house
will give best results. Count the cost
before you build, and build a house
that can be run in the easiest possible
way and save time and labor for the
attendant.
Consider well its location, both for
summer and winter. The chicks need
plenty of shade during the summer,
| but they must have much sunshine
during the winter to get best results.
In feeding, much is often lost, be-
| cause we try to economic in the guam
tity and quality of food used to rear
our poultry. as it is not n matter OF
| how long it will take to feed out bag
or two of feed, but how quickly we
can make them eat and digest it, for
the quicker the right sort of food gets
into the digestive system the quicker
it will come out as growth upon the
| bird, and the quicker it can be eX-
| changed for cash. We should never
buy damaged grain or food for poultry
| because 1t may be few cents cheaper.
1t is false economy.
| The real economy in the feeding OF
poultry so as to obtain the best results
in the shortest possible time for mar
ket poultry and for the production of
eggs is to buy the best grade of every
thing and then to blend it in the right
proportions so as to get out of it all
the food value 1t contains
Let the grower always take due pre-
cautions. It is as important in this
| business as in any other, and much
| loss is due to the failure to make the
proper plans and allowances. There
are so many contingencies that can
not be put down to take place at any
| given time that all we can do is to be
ready for them when they come Some
morning it looks like rain, and pre-
! cautions must be taken to get all the
chicks under shelter as soon as the
rain begins to fall. If they are not let
ont at all that day. More chickens are
/ lost annually throughout this country
on account of the peoples neglect of
taking the proper precautions against
| emergencies of all kinds than from any
other source
we have attempted to point out
few of the avenues of loss to the man
who begins to raise poultry. These are
| q few and there are many more which
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