Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-20

question for the health of his fam
lily that he remove to a milder and
more beneficial climate. But what
could he do as a means of hYeli-
hood?
He read up poultry. 1t appealed to
him. He studied the subject, and
then, with his business training, he
saw where it was possible to create a
good income. He began small, grew
gradually, and to-day has a flock OF
1 200 hens-half of which are pullets.
MIR. Kelly does all the work himself.
1t is a big job, but as everything is
systematized, all duties are attended
to regularly, and as regularity in all
things is his motto, everything moves
smoothly. His income runs to a
clear profit of over one dollar per
head.
Sells Hotel to Raise Poultry
Anton Piez is an eX-hotelkeeper.
While he was successful in his busi-
ness he longed for outdoor work. Like
Mr.. Kelly he began studying the poul-
| try question. If others succeeded,
| why not he? The hotel was sold and
the poultry plant started.
Mr.. Piez had the capital to begin
in large way, but he read of the fall
| ures of so many that started on an
extensive scale. and it was warning
to him. He knew to be successful he
had to creep before he could walk.
To-day his farm is composed of about
500 breeding and laying birds. Every
hen is trapnested, and each year he
retains and breeds from only the
cream of the flock.
$500 Per Day From 1 1000 Hens
Thomas w. Ware gave up his bust
ness in the city on account of his
wife's health. She had been an invalid
for years. After they boarded in the
| town for a year or two, and Mrs. Ware
showed a great Improvement in
health. Mr.. Ware purchased home
with four and a half acres of land
He bought a few fowls, and the
work attending to them and also the
cultivation of a small garden, occu-
pied both his mind and body. Gradu-
ally the poultry part increased, until
to-day he has one of the largest inten-
sive poultry farms in this section of
| the country. One thousand head of
stock is quartered, and Mr.. Vare's
! books show that he has reached an
income, clear, of about five dollars
per day.
Big Profits and Better Health
John L. Gerhart conducted a cigar
store in the city of Philadelphia for
over twenty six years. 1t meant hard
work and long hours. Standing be-
hind q counter for an average of fif-
teen hours day, and that, too, in q
room more or less laden with smoke,
broke down his health, and the doctor
ordered that he give up city life and
get out into the, open air of the coun-
try.
This all happened eight or nine
years ago and in that comparatively
short period he has established the
most intensive poultry plant of the
town. yielding better profit than that
! realized behind the counter of his
cigar store. Then. toe. the better
hours, the more congenial work, the
| purer air. and the physical eXertion,
not only cured his ATTACKS of nerves
but restored his lost app lie and gave
/ him peaceful rest at night. Mr.. Ger
| hart keeps between 500 and 800 lay
ers. and mis- books show an annual
| profit of $1,000.
All the above are one-man plants,
! The only help these men have is what
assistance their wives give them. such
as helping to care for the chicks. or
assisting in asserting and packing the
eggs for shipment
| Mr. Kelly's place is purely an egg
| ing eggs. and breeding stock: Mr..
does custom Matching. and Mr. Ger
| hart engages in table and Matching
eggs, breeding stock and baby chicks.
Mr.. Kelly has two acres devoted to
poultry; Mr.. Piez has five acres; Mr..
Ware has four and q half acres, and
Mr.. Gerhart has one and a half acres.
These are living examples and I
could name several more, but what I