The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-28
MONEY IN CHICKS
Yes, Poultry Raising Always
Pr0fitable-On Paper.
Gold Mine in Eggs One of Pop
uIar Decisions.
FARMERS KNOW REAL FACTS
Business Requires Constant
Care and Pains.
Must Guard Against Parasites,
Flood and Disease.
FARMERS KNOW REAL FACTS

Perhaps it is a thoroughbred Ply
mouth Rock against a common barn
yard fowl, that explains why much of
the money spent in Topeka by the peo-
pie from the country is some times
| called Chicken" money. Now this ex-
preston does not mean the same as
| Chicken feed" which is usually APP
piled to pennies, n1ckels and dimes
and other coin so useful for selfish
purposes and so especially useful for
charitable work.
Chicken" money is the change
which comes from the sale of chickens
and eggs. Every agent knows that
much of the aluminium ware guaran-
teed to last for a hundred years, and
the enlarged pictures and their frames,
guaranteed to be worth what ever
price the agent can get, are purchased
by the farm wife largely with her
Chicken" money.
And be it known there is money
in chickens" However, few realize
the care and pains-pains is used in
every sense of the word-that are re-
quired to make the chickens lay the
golden eggs. Of this be frenzied fig
urativeness make the most of IT'D
The idea of chicken ranch being
a gold mine usually possesses nearly
every one at some time or another.
The city men especially and many
theatrical people are victims of this
delusion. They have it all figured out
OIl paper anu LIS VI ills hIHu are
as glittering and alluring as political
promises before election. Thus thin
figures tell them:
"An average hen will lay an aver
age number of eggs Con paper) in ar
average number of days. The eggs
will bring an average price per dozen.
1t will cost only so much to raise the
hens from the downy chicks to a full
Pledged layer. According to calcula-
ton the expense of this will not be
L,
per dozen eggs. There is money in
chickens"
The practical farmer or his wife
and daughters, smile when the city
man confides his dreams of making
Ell Dorado out of his back yard with
farms know the reality of the bust
ness.
1t is poetical to read about the
doWny chicks, but the facts of the
case are that the dOwny chicks are
full of perVerSenesS and some times of
tiny but vOracious insects. Like
wOman's watch there is generally
something the matter with them. It
is quite soothing to read in poultry
books how the chickens make you
money while you sleep but it is
different matter to leave a comforta-
bic bed about a. m. and try to cor
raj dozen or so chicks which have
slipped through the guaranteed chick
en-prOOI wire IKE corn through the
fingers, or to get soaked by rain which
threatens to drown the huddled help
less brood
Then if the chickens escape flood
and insects they are prone to flirt
with hawk and court death by
cheeps as the bird hovers overhead
waiting a chance to swoop down upon
the chicklets like a hostile aerop1ane
on a beleagured city. Another thing
must be guarded against and that is
the habit of your chickens associating
with other chickens which should be
quarantined.
And it is known that the chickens
will consist mostly of feathers unless
proper care is taken to fatten them.
oh it is SO easy to make money with
chickens, but the farmer, his wife or
who ever does so shows as much care
and foresight as would be required to
make big profits in any vocation, even
much genius is necessary to
make a financial success of country
newspaper. r. NJ. G.
Riverside Coal Ranges at Forbes.