Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-23
The Difference.

To progress In the poultry business is
to make money. the same applying, OF
course, to all businesses. Few people
nowadays go into poultry to Just get
enough for ourselves 1t is being taken
up not only to make it pay for ITSELF but
to yield a profit.
The great profit in poultry is in pure
bred stock, because there is little diff
Guilty in adding to the ordinary egg prof.
it's by the sale of eggs for Matching and
in the selling of day old chicks. De-
liver the goods and you get the money.
Who wants to buy eggs for Matching, or
who cares for day-old chicks that come
from mongrels? Even for the market
pure bred birds will dress better than
mongrels, and will bring better price
because more care is taken of them. But
we will put aside the eggs and the birds
for market and return to the day-oid
chicks and the eggs for Matching.
In many advertisements you will see
eggs for Matching 81 for fifteen or
that 81 for fifteen eggs, in season
when eggs are selling cheap. and when
| there are plenty of Them is good price
| and profitable. and in many instances
those eggs and those chicks are Nigh
class chicks. But to man or a woman
in the poultry business high-class eggs
and baby chicks are worth much more
than that.
laving strain, mates his birds carefully
and altogether takes care of them. his
income from pure-bred eggs for setting
and his baby chicks should be In excess
Of 81 per fifteen. And the breeders o.
that, but / know of at least dozen
men who have been compelled to return
money for day-old chicks because they
could not supply the demand
Not SO many people buy eggs for hatch-
ing. Such eggs at a dollar per fifteen
cost nearly cents. to be followed Dy
the care of incubation and possibility OF
infertility. and the returning of the IN. IN
| twenty-one days of incubation are done
away with and you have some real living
! birds to start with. the price being any
where from SO up. | do not nnd pleasure
] in making remarks about day-old chicks
| at IS per hundred because of hurting the
feelings of some one who sells at that
price, But one who has >day-oid cnicks
| to sell should get more, or suHer the
penalty of being thought to have IN
| ferior chicks. The incubation OF an
egg and the bringing forth of chick
| is worth 10 cents at the lowest. But 1t
Is not my purpose to regulate the prices
of poultry.
Neither is the idea wished to be con-
yeyed that a man or woman starting In
the poultry business should pay out a
large sum of money before he or sne
knows something about the care and
management of poultry. This is directed
particularly to the men and women who
! have had some dealing with chickens and
who with easy-going management makes
| his ordinary stock pay "a neat little
smm. in addition to his daily labor in an
| office, and to the man who has small
| farm.
/ quote from a catalogue: Buff orping-
| tons. eggs. SIS per Is; $25 per 80: $40
per 90 baby chicks. $50 per 10; S33 per
| e: Rhode Island reds, SIS per Is; 50 per
| 30: So per so; baby chicks, SO per 25;
| $40 per so.
| The management of this farm said he
could not supply the demand for baby
| chicks. He shipped some 1000 miles,