Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-28
No. l.-Locatins the Houses Properly.

The wide distribution of domestic
fowls throughout the United States
and the general use made of their
products make poultry of interest to a
large number of people. Breeders are
continually striving to improve the
fowls for some particular purpose and
to excel all predecessors in producing
just what the market demands for
beauty or utility; but the mass of peo-
pie look at the poultry products solely
as supplying the necessary elements
of food in an economical and palatable
form. For considerable time each
year eggs are sought instead of meat
by people of moderate means, because
at the market price eggs are a cheaper
food than the various kinds of fresh
meat.
Large numbers of the rural popula-
ton live more or less isolated and
find 1t inconVenient, If not impossible,
to supply fresh meat daily for the
table aside from that slaughtered on
the farm, and of all live stock poultry
furnishes the most convenient means
of supplying an excellent quality of
food in suitable quantities. This is
particularly true during the hot sum
mer months, when fresh meat will
keep only short time with the con-
veniences usually at the farmers COM
mand.
The general consumption of poultry
and poultry products by nearly all
classes of people furnishes home mar
kets in almost every city and town
in the United States and at prices
which are usually remuneratiVe If
good Judgment is exercised in the
management of the business,
Although fowls require as whole
some food as any class of live stock
they can be fed perhaps more than
any other kind of animals on unmer-
charitable seeds and grains that would
otherwise be wholly or partially lost.
These seeds often contain various
weed seeds, broken and undeveloped
kernels, and thus furnish a variety of
food which is always advantageous
in profitable stock feeding. There is
less danger of injury to poultry from
these refuse seeds than is tire case
with any other Kind OF animals. AS
q rule noXious weed seeds can be fed
to fowls without fear of disseminating
the seeds through the manure which
is not generally true when the weed
seeds are fed to other classes Of live
stock, particularly in any considerable
quantity.
1t is a cheering fact that the poultry
business cannot be monopolized by a
trust or syndicate. The reason for
this is that 1t takes so little to start
ANY one who has ten dollars at his
disposal, who is ingenious with tools,
who can construct a house out of q
dry goods box, can install an egg fac
tory in his back yard. and can have
as good eggs as the millionaire on the
avenue.
Indeed, the small poultry keeper has
many advantages. Poultry keeping
is To him q recreation, a pleasant
change from the routine OF his daily
employment. He can give his hens
the best of care, and there is no
creature that is more grateful and
responsive to good care than the hen.
Scraps from his table and from his
neighbours table VIII go a long ways
toward supplying them with food
There is a market at his door for al
his eggs. AS soon as the neighpors
find out that he has eggs to sell they
will be after him, 9nd viii be willing
to pay him the highest retail price
for the output of his hennery.
Keeping poultry in the back yaro
need not be an excuse for an untidy
littered-up place. In fact, many
people who keep poultry have giver
the industry u black eye on this
score alone. Anyone who has nice
lawn and q yard that looks attractive
hesitates to have ii assume an APP
pearance like shat of the yards of lots
of amateur poultry raisers. This Is
entirely unnecessary. a glance al
the illustration accompanying TINS
article will convince anyone that
chicken houses can be so built and
so located in q yard that they VIII
be more an ornament than a detri'
ment The yard In which the pho
tograph was taken is located not far