The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-05-07
The Idaho Poultry Field.
(From Idaho Country Life)
By PREM. Moore, Farm Foreman.

By PREM. Moore, Farm Foreman.
Tie demand for better grade of
poultry is growing very rapidly in
Idaho. The populace of Idaho is very
progressive along any line that they
may happen to pursue.
The farmers have improved the
quality of their live stock and appre-
ciate the value of pure bred live stock
of any kind.
Idaho farmers are gradually i'm
proving their methods of farming and
the results are very evident where the
improved methods are practiced.
While Idaho is one of the great
wheat states and many of her farmers
are wealthy today as a result of wheat
farming it can easily be seen that
farming is gradually adjusting itself
to a more diversified system. Stock
farming is more in evidence and will
increase very rapidly from now OIL.
Idaho offers great field for live
stock that is wholly undeveloped.
Every condition is here to encourage
it and poultry certainly comes in for
its place.
Poultry and poultry products are
always in demand and the supply is
very limited. Great quantities are
shipped into the markets of the north
west from the central west that should
be produced in the territory tributary
to these northwest markets. Every
farmer should keep a good flock of
poultry and care for it with the same
idea and the same purpose in view as
the progressive farmer does his horses
or his cattle or any other live stock
that he may happen to breed. Farm
erS keep hogs for the profit there is
in them. The farmer who does not
have the pride or ambition to keep
the best in whatever breed he may
possess is not very likely to 6nd it
very profitable. The same applies to
poultry
have no intention of attempting to
advise the farmer or any breeder or
prospective breeder of poultry just
what breed is the best, or what breed
they should handle. That is more a
matter of fancy. | do say, however,,
that there is no person who can make
a success and hope ever to get cry
far along in the poultry world by
keeping lot of mongrels. In the
first place no man ever took pride
enough in scrub animal of any kind
to. give it the chance necessary to
make any thing of it even if it were
possible. Quality is necessary and with
out it we can never expect results.
Idaho offers a living to a great
number of families who can adapt
themselves to the poultry business.
They have every opportunity. Land is
heap and the climatic conditions are
avorable to the production of st'cng
'igocous birds.
Vigor is very important. Eastern
judges find after looking over our
hows that we produce stronger birds
han they find in the eastern shows.
hat should be encouraging after con-
idering that poultry in Idaho is mere
y side line. The great majority of
irds found in our show rooms are
he result of little side-line breeding.
There are a few who are making
oultry a business and are depending
pom their flock to support them and
leir families: Poultry farming has
ways been looked upon as being
usiness too small for the Idaho farm
r. Its possibilities have been consid-
red by but few people, No state Of
ers greater inducements to poultry
zen than does Idaho. Feed is pro-
uced in great quantities. The vari-
y for profitable poultry feeding is
lost unlimited. The only thing neces-
Try to make of Idaho great poultry
ate is that the people may become
lmil:ar with the conditions that the
may be better understood.
eople who have lived here for many
ears do not realize that Idaho has
e greatest poultry possibilities of any
ate in the union.