Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-05-08
POULTRY RhISNGIN
HENDERSON COUNTY

Poultry raising is one of the sadly neg
nected good paying industries of Hender-
son county.
The occupation has been encouraged here
abouts to some extent during the past few
years, by reason of the. work of the Hender-
son County Poultry association, but it is
badly neglected.
While poultry growing is e~ngaged<in to a.
great extent in Henderson county few FAM
ciers of the fowl have gone into it On a bus
mess plan. The majority have taken it up
as a side line, partly for the amusement.
DR.. G. Few, who has been a poultry fan
cier for a number Of years, says there is
good money in growing fowls provided a
fellow goes into it to make money. He de-.
clares it takes time and study to get the
best results but that the poultry raiser does
not have to take "a college course by any
means to learn to raise poultry successfully.
The doctor has made money raising fine
fowls, but he has retired from the business
because of age and feeble health. DR.. Few
is regarded as one of the authorities that
be hereabouts when it comes to raising
poultry and he says that there is money IN
the industry but that the poultry raiser
must be on his job and look after the poul-
try business just like a banker looks after
a banks business if success is expected to
come from his labors.
Probably>no class of people have more
and better advantages for proftably rails
ing poultry in Henderson county than the
farmers. There is always a more or less
unavoidable waste around home and barns,
all of which can be used to profitable adj
vantage by poultry raisers.
In advocacy of poultry raising on a prac-
teal but not scientific plan by farmers,
Press Lane, a prominent and well-to-do
farmer of the French Broad section, says
that there is nothing like it; that he makes
more clear money in raising poultry, COM
paratively speaking, than he does from
raising hogs, sheep and cattle. He has the
proof. During the winter he had about
fifty laying hens. It took very little food
the kitchen and the barns. They waxed
fat on waste matter and furnished sufficient
eggs through the winter to buy the -four
and groceries for the family, with Mr..
Lanes tobacco and other items included.
During the he raises a considera-
BILE number of chickens for selling purposes,
but the h~en-laying proposition is what ap-
speals to him strongest. Mr.. Lane gathers a
nice basket of eggs daily, summer and
winter; gives his chickens practically little
extra food from the granary has plenty of
good fat fowls to eat, devotes little of his
time to the chicken question and clears some
good money every week i nthe year.
There are bushels of seeds and grains
going to waste around the barns from year
to year and only by raising chickens can
this waste be turned into profit.
As an instance of how this industry is
neglected by the farmers, Mr.. lane declares
that he has neighbors who are making mon
ey by farming; that their wastes are large
because they do not have sufficient fowls to
furnish them eggs for breakfast.
Mr.. Lanes experience can be duplicated
by hundreds of farmers in Henderson coun-
ty. The local market is so great during
the summer season that fresh country eggs
cannot be had at any price. There is a
great demand for young friers, old hens or
about any kind of an old fowl that can be
found.
There are certain poultry f~anciers who
take pride in raising fine bred fowls, but ex-
perience has shown DR.. Few that the finer
fowls are not properly appreciated in this
section an dthat the good laying hen with
a little food, little attention, and little ex-
pense will create a neat little bank account;
will place groceries of all kinds in the
kitchen and will furnish many of the Incl
dental articles around the country home.
MOST UNIQUE BUILDING IN WORLD.
Way up in the mountains of Western