The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-08

able than through commission house.
That one day each week. selling his poul-
Try and eggs, took more out of his body
and mind together than any other two
Idays. 1t wore on him In many ways. The
| day before his trip to the city he had
20 work long hours under high pressure.
setting ahead with his work in order to
leave At all. The day after his trip he
was tired and unfit for full days hand
| ling OF his stock While direct selling
might be all right for some folks he
decided that he had all the experience
he cared for along that line and went
back To shipping By express in wholesale
lots
II he had been ON the edge OF a large
town or on n stone road to a nearby
city II would have been "A different story.
ON the contrary. he had 70 climb several!
hills, over common country roads, through
mud and snow, In rain ard wind with a
round trip OF nearly twenty miles 1t
was wise to devote more time to pro
ducing and less to the selling Of his
product.
able 10 do his own Matching No more
was he getting nc.rhbors to produce HIS
chicks. His nttl. incubator cellar unuer
one end of his small bfOodvr house. with
| rs 400 egg machine and a smaller one.
gave room - hatch his LOCO chicks each
year. His breeders. Of the old style
Rudd home made affairs. in this twenty
four foot house. brought up the chicks
20 the age when they went out on his
hillside pasture. Cheapiy constructed
coops. 6x6 feet. protected the growing
chicks Till half grown. when the cockerels
were dressed and marketed His Rhode
Island Reds. bred FOR eggs largely, gave
rOckerels that were In splendid Coud.tiu
for market when sixteen We ks OF age, AVID
:hese were pushed OFF the place As rapidly
| as his market would allow.
With tn" free range ~ that closely
ropped pasture. the shelter of the berry
bushes that freely grew among the
stones. he produced puliets that were in
great demand among MS neighhors Tn y
proved to be great winter layers, and
ne was able 10 sell each fan 100 pulets
| FOR s. each. No: large price. but one
| that gave him nearly 500 profit over the
cost OF rearing to six months Of age.
These were sold to be used Tor breeders,
| not Just for table eggs, and were worth
g. each to the buyers for the purpos,
hey wished them.
Matching early. having the chicks on,
between March 10 and May !. wit
usually a hatch on March !. he caurh'
the nigh prices for broilers and small
roasters. grew his pullets in the hes
months ~ the year and brought the layers
10 maturity at the season when egg.
brlnE creamy prices IN Ne" England
Breeding thoroughbred stock, mating wit
certain type in mind. getting plenty
OF WATER eggs. he became known al
| through his section as the man who
made Fooi money with poultry. Their,
grew up a demand for his eggs fo'
, Matching in 100 egg lots at SC a hund cd
! This was only 10 cents a dozen more
| than he got for table eggs in December,
| but II WAS In the months Of low egg
prices that he had his call for setting
eggs Instead OF selling for the able
| at 90 TO 80 cents dozen he supplied
his local demand for Matching eggs at
| ~ cents dozen in hundred lots. A
nice little profit. you will all agree with
me. The time of largest call for Matching
eggs was after what he personally needed
had gone into the machines and he could
easily spare OF his best
This IL a simple story OF what one
young man has done with poultry In a
hilltop town OF New England. ! would
not dare advise the average young man
to start out as did this one. Few men
have the muscle, the country training,
the love OF the simple life. the ability
TO grow steadily and smoothly into poultry
keeping. He did, and l am glad to count
him among my friends.
Copyright, 1914, by George A. McDeuitt
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