Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-01-02

poultry were all disposed of to To-
cal packing company at he prices
usually paid to producers. The fig
ures are above question, for system
of. bookkeeping is religiously carried
out, Mr.. Williams having been book
keeper for the Gray, Reid, Wright
Company for three years before NOV
ing onto his farm. He started poul-
try raising on small scale while
holding his position and now has de-
veloped business which requires an
assistant for part of the time. He
has lived on the farm seven years.
1t lies just east of the State Fair
grounds and contains nine acres.
In the earlier years of his chicken
raising experience, Williams sought
to establish house to house trade,
taking orders and delivering eggs and
chickens in order to get the advantage
of the prices paid by consumers. He
came to the conclusion that it did not
pay, so now spends all his ime TAX
ing care of his stock, selling the chick
ems and eggs in wholesale lots.
The accounting system consists of Il
laybook, cash book and ledger com
,ined, with chart egg record separ-
tie The egg record during the last
Jear showed an average for the entire
dock of .l42 eggs per hen. This aver
lge may be raised through system OF
trap nests that is to be installed dur
ng the coming season.
Although so small, the Williams
farm is a very complete little ranch.
Two horses are kept for hauling feed
and produce and for tilling the soil.
There is moderate amount OF equip
ment to go with them, and a stack OF
llfalfa hay, both for the horses and
chickens. The chickens consumed
wo tons of hay last winter.
The main features of the Williams
farm, however, are the buildings and
he most interesting of these at this
eet in size, where 5000 young chick
ms are being developed for winter
,roilers. They are sold at from eight
weeks to four months in age and one
o three pounds in size, bringing IS to
IS Gems apiece.
The brooder house is heated by 4
ystem of hot water pipes. The water
supply is contained in small tank at
me end while a small boiler fed by
anthracite coal sits in cellar at the
,pposite end. Adjoining the boiler
Dom is the incubator cellar, where i
mammoth incubator, containing y
ections holding 900 eggs each, is OPP
rated in spring The incubator and
nearly everything else about the place
vas built by its owner. Six hundred
seven hundred hens are mated up
supply Matching eggs while the re
naming hens continue supplying eggs
or market A shed II by pa feet in
;ze houses the breeding stock and
louse 81 by $50 feet is used for the
ayers.
During the present season 1850
hicks were raised resulting in flocl
If 200 pulles that now, at four
months are beginning to lay At lay
ng age, the pullets have cost their
owner Is cents each. Probably few
ooultrymen could keep within this
expense however. 1t would require
cores of laboring- saving devices, con
tant attention and thorough knowl
.dge of the business to do it. The
secret of such success is declared to
re low percentage of loss in raising
he chicks.
Plenty of light is one of the secrets
# Mr.. Williams success and one Of
the most noticeable things in all his
buildings is the long series of sky
lights in the roofs In the brooder
house the skylights admit almost
enough heat to warm the houses dur
ng the winter days. Lots of light is
one of the means used to keep mites
md other poultry petts in subsection.
Spraying several times a year does
he rest.
The exact net sum realized by Mr..
Williams last year from the sale OF the
eggs of 1900 hens was $3.50.
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