The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-21
FOUR ACTUAL INSTANCES OF
 SUCCESS IN POULTRY RAISING
Good Results Due to Hard
 Work and Application of Sound Business Principles
Starting on Large Scale Causes Many Failures Experience and Suffi- cient Capital Essential

clenC CaplIal ESSentlaI
 By MICHAEL K. BOYER e Poultry Editor s'Farm Journal"
 Copyright, 1915.)
 The impression is prevalent among people knowing little about the science of producing eggs that it Is only neces- sary to stock up with hens and tho dollars will roll in. While it is true that nearly anyone can make success in the poultry business, it cannot be done without hard work. In this ar ; ticle MT. Boyer tells of four specific instances where men have made good by personal application of practical methods. and gives some good advice for beginners to follow.
 "The proof of the pudding Is tho eating thereof'' 1t is all right to point out the way to success-to tell how to make a good profit in the poultry busi- ness-but many of us would like to hear of specific cases where men have made good with poultry. There are four examples within a few minutes walk of the writer's place-living tes- timoniais that there is money in the business, All of these four men, who are making a good living from the production of eggs and meat, took up raising poultry because it afforded healthful outdoor work.
 CLEARING S1 PER HEAD
 Thomas J. Kelly was the superin- tendent of large stove foundry in pittsburg, and had charge of hundreds of men. He was very successful in his occupation, but the strain was tell ing on him. Besides it became a ques- tion for the health of his family that he remove to milder and more bene- ficial climate. But what could he do as a means of a livelihood?
 He read up poultry. It appealed to him. He studied the subject, and then, with his business training, he saw where it was possible to create good income. He began small, grew grad ually, and today has a flock of 1900 hens-half of which are bullets. MT Kelly does all the work himself. It is 8 big job, But as everything is sys- tematized, all duties are attended to regularly, and as regularity in all things is his motto, everything moves smoothly. His income runs to clear profit of over $1 per head.
 SELLS HOTEL TO RAISEPOULTRY
 Anton Piez is an ex-hotel keeper. While he was successful in his business he longed for outdoor work Like MT. Kelly he began studying the poultry question. If others succeeded, why not he? The hotel was sold and the poul- try plant started.
 MT. Piez had the capital to begin In large way, but he read of the fail ures of so pany that started on an extensive scale. and 1t was a warn ing to him.. He knew to be success ful he had to creep before he could walk. Today 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.
 S5 PER DAY FROM 1000, HENS
 Thomas w. Ware gave up his busi- ness in the city on account of his wife's health. She had been an in valid for years. After they boarded in the town for year or two, and Mrs. Ware showed great improve meht in health. Mir. Ware purchased a home with four and a half acres of land.
 He bought few fowls, and the work attending to them and also the cu1ti- vation of a small garden, occupied both his mind and body. Gradually the poultry part increased, until to- day he has one of the largest inten- siye poultry farms in this section of the country. One thousand head of stock is quartered, and MT. Vares books sCow that he has reached an income, clear, of above $5 per day. BIG PROFITS-BETTER HEALTH
 John E. Gerhart conducted a cigar store in the city of Philadelphia for over 26 years. It meant hard work and long hours. Standing behind a counter for an average of 15 hours a day, and that too, in 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 country.
 This all happened eight or nine years ago, and in that comparatively short period he has established the most in- tensive poultry plant of the town, yielding better profit than that realized behind the counter of his ci- gar store. Then, too, the better hours, tho more congenial work, the purer air. and the physical exertion, not only cured his attacks of nerves" but re- stored his lost appetite and gave him peaceful rest at night MT. Gerhart keeps between 800 and 900 layers, and his books show an annual profit of $1600.
 All the above are one-man plants. The only help these men have is what assistance their wives g1ve them, such