El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-11
Feed.
POULTRY DEPARTMENT
An Egg Farm and It's Possibilities Here.
By ]. G. KEENAN,.

wrote him that white leghOrns were
q very popular breed IN this section
and grow as well" and "1ay as Wei
as they do anywhere, but that we had
here a few drawbacks to the poultry
business which had to be overcome,
but could offset these obstacles with
many advantages and summarized my
report to him with the statement that
TO a. certainty an egg farm would pay
well in the vicinity Of FL PaSo-
When I came to the city more than
seven years ago it seemed to have
been thoroughly demonstrated that no
branch OF the poultry business could
be made to pay in this section Many
failures had been recorded against the
business and it was pretty generally
conceded that no measure Of success
awaited the man with the temerity 10
engage in the business. About the
largest plant in the country was a
flock Of 800 hens in east Ell PasO. 1
visited this and few months after my
arrival in the city and was told that
though eggs were always a good price
flock OF hens would not pay for their
Keep and this man soon lost out sig
nally and quit the business
Conditions the Same Now.
Conditions are exactly TIE same now
as then, and yet We have MANY plants
OF varied proportions meeting with sig
nal success. They have learned the
obstacles and overcome them and being
a pretty clever set Of fellows have
given freely to the public the benefit
of their experience. As a matter of
fact no one man is entitled 70 the
credit of the present extent IF infor
nation with regard to the business. but
it has been a matter of rapid evolution
in which many adVenturers-male and
female-haye played their parts and
have brought the general KNOWLEDGE 10
a point where 1t can be said that an
egg farm pays well in the FL PasO
country though no more so than aDv
other branch of the poultry business
It is a noticeable racr, too, that the
more eggs produced in this immediafa
section the better the price thew saeT7
as many produced today as seven wears
ago. and yet the price seems a LITTLE
better OF course, the, population of
the city has increased greatly in that
period, but not in proportion to the
increase in egg production, SO the
secret of maintenance of fair price
lies in the fact that the public gen
orally and more especially the army of
visiting health seekers among US have
learned the value of fresh laid eggs
standpoint. And speaking of the thera-
peutic value Of fresh laid eggs, sug-
gests to me the idea Of selling the eggs
of my own ranch When I start it
through the drug stores and. I expect
to have my brand Of eggs prescribed
bv the doctors. Each egg will be
stamped with the date, everyone will
be sterile and produced under the most
sanitary conditions and I will regulate
the price When I start the enterprise
I will call on all the doctors in the in
terest of my particular class of eggs
Just exactly as travelling statesmen in
tervieW them when they desire TO call
their attention to some new remedy.
The medical fraternity, quick to recog-
nize a progressive step in the practice
of their profession, would soon be pre-
scribing Kenan's eggs, and blacklist
the druggist who substituted others.
lust as good" I'm afraid, though, I've
made mistake in publishing my plans
before cOpyrighting them for I shall
now expect some enterDrising local
producer to steal my thunder and go to
marketing his surplus product through
the medium Of drug stores and on the
prescriptions Of physicians.