Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-08
HOW EDLETS MADE
CHICKEN FARM PAY
Classified Columns Used Exclu-
SiveIy by Young Man to Build
Up Business.

Perhaps you wouldn't think there
could be a close connection between
a poultry business and want ads.
says Edward S.. but ! have used
classified advertising from the time |
first made up my mind to go into the
business until was well established
in it. aud ! viii use them TO a greater
extent in the future
Il was born on a farm and lived in
the country until was sixteen. Then.
like many other young fellows who
don't know when they are well off,
went to town-and a few years later
was trying like all possessed to get
back TO the country With me it was
not a case Of wanderlust or dissatis-
faction, or OF wanting to be some place
else no matter where / vast was
simply a case of being lured by the
glamour Of the town while young and
Of awakening to the value of the coun
try life as soon as gained mature
judgment
"Fernaps I was luckier than most
city men who dream of enjoying the
calm life of the country, or perhaps l
was more in earnest in my efforts to get
on to the land, but was back in the
country by the time / was thirty
Many of the town men who planned
with me to live on a farm in our old
age still are talking of the delights OF
the simple life while they drink creme
de cocoa, listen to the orchestra and
spend the money they should be saw
ing.
Less Capital for Chicken Farm.
while in town / learned the trade
Of carpenter. This, as you viii readily
see, aided me when / went back to the
farm. From this fact also you will
gather that / received good wages, but
never exceptionally large pay In.
deed, many of my acquaintanees who
grated loudly on the Joys Of the simple
life were drawing larger salaries than
/, but today they have nothing to show
for this money.
From the start had set certain
sum as the amount to be saved before
/ again would tackle the farming
game. At that time / had in mind
farm of at least eighty acres on which
I would do general arming-raising
corn, oats, wheat, clover, pigs. and
perhaps a few steers But soon my
ideas grew more moderate.
After considering the matter, | de
cided it would take far less capital to
start a chicken farm, orchard or truck
farm than a regular" farm. Not need
ing so much money naturally | would
be able to get on to the land while
younger, while I still had many years
of good work in me. Furthermore, the
more looked into the matter the more
it seemed to me that small, intens
lively cultivated place ought to bring
almost the same net returns as larger
place on which the old-fashioned sys-
TEN of farming was in vogue.
About the time that had fully dc.
cided to try out a small farm the want
ad for the first time entered into my
scheme of life. had gotten into the
habit of scanning the want ad columns
daily from picking out small farms to
rent or for sale in the garden spots OF
the country-each and every one
garden spot incidentally and one day
I ran across what struck me as a par
ticularly good proposition in the farm
help wanted classification.
inducements to Help.
Perhaps in order to explain the
cause of this exceptionally good offer
ought to tell of the conditions that
existed in our neighborhood, less than
$50 miles from Chicago. At that time
many of the farmers were finding diff
hcuIty in securing good hired hands
they are yet. in fact The young nm
married fellows were apt to be lured 10
town by the magnetic power of the
movies and other amusements. or in.
duced to 90 west by the stories Of large
wages prevailing in the newer lands
of the western country
Farmers had found by experience
that the married men were steadier.
not nearly SO likely to find fault over
triAes and leave without warning. but
that when more than one family lived
in one house>the two or more Mrs
Hired Hands engaged in spirited de
bates-with words. fists and fatirons
rather than butter making For this
reason, therefore. one Of the progress.
i've farmers Of the neighborhood
dairyman who especially needed milk
ers-had built several tenant houses.
Each of them stood in a small plot Of
ground on which were set out few
fruit trees. a truck garden was laid
ont and q chicken yard built This
farmer then made proposition to
married farm workers to allow them
the use OF this plot in addition to their
salary If they woulc agree to stay on
he Job for a year.
~ have forgotten the exact wording
Of the ad that attracted me. but the
gist Of It was that a farmer had built
new tenant house in a peach orchard
that he had just set out and wanted a
married man to live in IT,
ii was not married. but, as told the
farmer when ] interviewed him, if
we're to live in the midst Of the farm
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