The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-12-03

itney soon got TO caring LOT the pOul-
try as a side line and then neglected
it, or perchance nearly all of these
things were combined SO they contri-
buted to the failure. These failures
put the business back again on the
plan of each farmer HAVING few
fowls and letting them forage for
most of their living, so that whatever
he gets out of the flock is clear gain.
The fowl that ekes out such an I'M
certain existence Is bound to be in
ferior from the very nature of its
food and mode of life, and the proven
bal "streak of lean and streak Of
fat" made by alternate good times
and periods of semi-starvation, drive
consumers to the conclusion that any
other kind of meat is better than
chicken. The foregoing in the history
of poultry production in general
way as applied in this county. To
raise chicken in peace and plenty,
with such variety of feed that every
thing is relish, with such comfort
able quarters that life is one sweet
holiday in chickdom, with every wish
met so completely that the fowl looRS
upon man as his servant and bene-
factor, friend he can safely rush
up to and when caught up in theA
hand can regard with assurance and
confidence and purs to in the low
cooling, chucking, folk talk of chick
hood, place where no cruel
slaughter and chopping off Of heads
or wringing of necks and other death
struggles are ever witnessed, place
where no fowl is ever driven by
hunger to eat something that is UNI
fit for food; this is the kind of a
lplace where the chickens of your fu-
ture banquet and humble meal are
to be brought up, clean, tender and
delicious. Such place is being de-
veloped and operated just at the edge
of town on the morningside. It is
on an extension of East Frances St.,
as it will be when it is called a street,
but at present allow us to give the
location by saying it is north of the
asylum farm.
| Morningside is tract of ten acres,
purchased last winter by Milton HI.
Fehnel and Charles Kirchner, two
gentlement who quit good positions
with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company
to launch the enterprise designed to
supply poultry products that are bet
ter. Starting chicken houses and
yards laid out according to well-ar-
ranged plans that will permit of adj
ditions of more buildings and yards
without rearrangirg the first ones,
| they purchased pure bred White Leg
horns and Barred Plymouth Rocks,
| in addition to some old stock brought
q hnu
about 800 of the former and 500 of
the latter.
In their breeding yards one pen
of single combe White Leghorns will
be mated to a cockrel from one of
the best pens ever imported to this
country from Tom Barron of Eng
land. Another pen will be headed
by cock from pen of six hens
from New Zealand, that own the third
international laying contest at Vic
toria, B. c., with an average of 221
2-3 eggs apiece in II months. More
breeding stock of this character for
high egg production will be imported
before the breeding season starts.
Another importation is a pen of
|Thompson's Imperial Bright Barred
Plymouth Rocks, of very highly de-
veloped egg laying strain and person
ally selected and mated by Mr..
Thompson, produce exhibition pull
lets and cockrels. They are of the
same blood that has won practically
all prizes year after year at the fore
most poultry show in the world held
in Madison Square garden, New York,
N. Y.
In order to keep the record of
every bird used for breeding pur-
poses, they use what are known as
trap nests" and every time a hen
steps into a nest she let's down light
door that shuts here in, and the poul-
try man in making his seven or eight
rounds of egg gathering each day, re-
leases each hen after she has deposit
ed her egg, and he makes a record Of
the egg and gives the parent ere lit.
In this way the hen is tested as to
capacity for laying qualities, and
when eggs are Matched, the pedigree
of each chick is known. The pro-
moters of tris enterprise will stand i
back of the parent stock they send
out, with guarantee that eliminates
all risk of wasting the time of the
purchaser rearing something that ia
not wanted. A perfect record and per-
feet ancestry for each chick is what
the purchaser Of eggs for Matching
will receive when he pays his money
for setting of eggs at Morningside
Poultry Farm.
The poultry business is in its youth
here and there are better things
ahead for producer and consumer.
Let us hope we have passed the long
night of measles ard whooping cough
and other things that we have to Ego
through" on the way to full stature,
and are coming to the period when
every farmer will produce something
Of known standard and quality
bearing his brand "blown-in-the- bot
tie" 80 the purchaser may know. The
Of Morningside have
adopted their line of goods. and here
by announce their policy, and we 7re-
dict that the housewife of next year
will be telephoning her grocer that
she prefers eggs from Morningside
where thev are gathered seven or
eight times :. day and every egg da.-
I'd. Sic will ring the meat market
md say, 81 want nice chicken: have