Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-25
Make Poultry a Main Line.

"Iet every farmer stop TO
ubat he expends upon each branch OF
th. farm operations" says a writer !
the Michigan Farmer. Taking poultry
:nto consideration, along with otner
things, and we believe ne VIII cnanse
his mind about the prontaDlehess VI
some things. If he is a business nan'
hat is he knows what he is DONG Dy
keeping an account of his operaCIOns'
as every man who is in business uoeS
or should do, he will have no oll1cuIS
in class. flying the receipts ana eA-
1,enses, and specially the s OF laDot:
Next let HIM estimate the amount Ol
space occupied by the d1nerent crops
and the different kinds OF STOCK Oh Ine
farm as we'll as the amount OF money
snent in c%ultivating such crops mar
Iesting them and getting them INTO
the market, charging interest on capl-
tal invested in horses, mules, lmple-
ments. etc. Let him go over the sCoch
rouosition in the same manner
counting the cost of producing Tue
Tcoe cattle and sheep. Calculate the
amount of ground that they occupy
ond what the investment is that sus-
tains them. After he has done all
rhis let him take up the poultry Dusi-
ness. calculate the value OF the small
amount of land that is devoted 10 Ine
fowls in most cases. charge them
with so much STOCK on manu. Cne
amour of feed consumed ana me ID
for that is spent upon them.
keen a record of all eggs gatnereo'
number of chickens consumed at
home and those sold on the Market
computing the eggs at the reguldl
market nrice whether eaten at nome
or marketed.
Then LET him compare he results
from the poultry with that OF the otner
farm crops and products. CONSIDER
ing the ever-available ready market
for nouItry products, a cash Market at
that orr enormous wheat crop ooes
rot equal in value the receipts IRON
the noultry products. 1t excels In
Uaine hat OF the wool crop. just
think of il! The thousands OF sheep
in Texas, California, Ohio, P~ennsylVa-
ITO and vet the little hen will outstrlp
them all.
with the market at his very door a.
all seasons of the year for any and all
kinds of poultry and poultry products
that the farmer may see NJ . puC
forth. and yet nine-tenths OF tnem are
content to make it simply a sloe me-
extending their energies oVer large
areas, being very fortunate II tney can
snow a profit at the end OF the year
from each acre, while their fowls are
giving them quick and satisfactory re-
turns both winter and summer from q
few rods square, while they are hard
lv willing to admit that they are a
part of the farm operations at all.
Did you ever sto pto think that at
times of depression in other lines OF
business the goods from the poultry
ward are always in demand without
affected like other kinds of bust
ness?
It is something that the average
family feel that they can do without
do not believe that h average
farmer, if he will but stop
10 consider and figure a little as we
have indicated, will long continue to
push the poultry to n one side as OF
little consequence.
It has been so easily taken care OF
hat it's real worth has been sadly
,ver- looked. All we ask is simply re-
;ognition along with other things
1pon the farm. If you buy a big boil
cotton the best you can find for use
n your farm, then invest in the best
grade of chickens that you can find.
L you keep a good high class of Jer-
seys for your dairy work, do as much
or the chickens. In other words,
whatever you undertake in the way of
improvement in any line let 1t be for
he poultry just the same. If we
Gould influence a million farmers to
raise ten more good chickens each
rear, see what the results would be
,or the country as well as for them
selves. 1t would be an income of at
asst SIS. O 900 to the farms.