The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1914-05-01

WITH the ldIIH'
know many who have large turkey
farms, many own large duck farms
Ducks have come to stay and the
breeder who gives them special atten-
tion will realize a good profit from
them. There are great possibilities In
store for duck raisers.
Poultry farming is a hobby of mine.
i know it to be one of the healthiest
outdoor occupations that woman can
enter. Women perhaps need hobbies
even more than men do; their lives
are more circumscribed. Woman is
often held at home by thousand ties
which she would not loosen IL she
could and could not If she would. Let
her have a hobby, then, which will
direct her thoughts from her small
cares.
Some time ago man said to me,
"Chicken raising is nothing but fad
Even SO; 1t does one good to have
hobby to ride IL they only get there.
1t will pay to ride a safe hobby and
there is nothing more profitable than
the fancy fowl fad"
! Did you ever attend poultry show
and notice how many exhibitors there
are? There is just as good chance
for a woman to win a prize on her
poultry as men. It's simply matter
of knowing how.
A great many women when they
want to increase their income just
add to the number of their flock, and
If you want to sell out your stock you
can do so any time of the year. The
hungry public buys our poultry prod
'ucts greedily and at any time.
A great many have taste for coun-
try life and natural capacity for the
management of farm; with poultry
raising the raising of fruit can be
combined profitably. Who is adapted?
THE woman who may become good
manager of a household has the quail
ties which insure success as poultry
raisers and women would not be poul-
try raisers If they did not have q
strong taste in that direction.
/ II she is endowed with that taste
all else follows naturally. If we care
for poultry we like to see it and this
trains the eye to recognize types and
to estimate a correct value from it;
1t enables one to detect the conditions
which in the beginning may make the
difference between success and fail
ure.
A prime requisite with poultry is
that it be kept. The sympathetic ma
ture in woman leads her to provide
for comfort. Her care for appearance
has real value in the market, which
is the final test of her ability to pro-
duce. 1t is in this place where we
differ from women in all other call
ings. We are not handicapped by our
sex.
We have never had a discount pro-
posed because poultry was owned by
women, while on the other hand, no
matter how well we teach, clerk, ETC.,
we find an inevitable discrimination
against US in the pay offered our abil-
fly in those lines.
Poultry farming affords a profitable
outlet for intelligence and energy with
independence. If we are fitted for
this work we will find q perpetual
charm in poultry farming. 1t also
gives us an opportunity to maintain a
home where others may find refuge.
There is no monotony in such a life.
We have the poultry papers, the fairs
and shows-these keep the mind alert
and the interests engaged.
The woman engaged in 1t finds the
business of poultry raising projected
on such a generous scale that she has
no fear OF others in the same BUSH
ness. Then, too, the poultry farmer
is her own boss. Poultry farming
has many features which would ap-
peal to woman. She is mistress OF
the. situation. The business Is hers
Don't be an amateur In the work
Spend all your ability in becoming
professional. II the women who half
starve trying to teach, clerk, ETC.,
would only employ their time raising
poultry for the market they would
make fortunes. II nine-tenths of the
actr esses would put as much time and
study on the characteristics OF hen
a. they do studying Lady Macbeth