The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-12-21
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mere III new Jersey CQe wives Ol
our poultrymen are great helps on
the farms. Some of them have the
care of the incubators, some attend to
the chicks, some look after the ship
ping, and others take charge of the
correspondence. They work together
and the partnership is not only prof
table but pleasant.
What Some Women Have Done
A woman Of my acquaintance who
devotes few moments daily to three
dozen hens kept in a small run, clears
$50 a year, which is her pin money"
Another instance is told of a WON
an who raised 700 chicks from $50
hens in one season, and sold 1915
worth of eggs during the same period.
The following autumn she disposed of
$500 worth of stock.
Two young women set 46S eggs in
an incubator, Matched 219 chicks, lost
40 of them. From 81 hens reserved
they netted a profit of $162.42 in the
sale of eggs and surplus stock.
A quarter of mile from the home
Of the writer lives a middle-aged
woman who averages 81 a week rails
ing broilers and selling table eggs.
Her trade is entirely local, which she
supplies daily with fresh-laid eggs.
The broiler orders generally come on
Saturday, and it keeps her pretty
busy killing and dressing stock for
these orders. No more than $50 head
of breeding stock is kept and all of
the work is done at regular hours so
arranged not to interfere with house
hold duties.
I have the testimony of another
poultrywoman here in New Jersey
who, with so hens, is able to pay taxes,
insurance and other minor bills.
Years ago I visited a farm in New
England, owned and managed by two
spinisters. With 500 hens these WON.
en- made a good living. They did all
their own work, such as running the
and breeders, feeding and
caring for the stock, besides perform
ing al 1.-The household duties.
tho vurifnrSc -
the most successful broiler raisers
were women. I know of one woman
who raises and markets 5000 broilers
a year. I could cite many more in
stances, such as the wives of laborers
devoting a portion Of their time to
raising fowls for market, realizing
enough to pay the rent, or buy the
or clothe the children.
Again. I know of women who were
compelled to support the family on &C.
count of an invalid husband, or some
other misfortune and where raising
and selling eggs and table poultry
solved the difficulty. And 1 know of
another case where a woman earned
enough money from her hens to pay |
for her boys education at college.
Hen as a Mortgage Litter
Here is a story that shows quite
forcibly what can be done. It hap.
pened in the writer's own town. A
certain farmer made dairying the fea-
ture Of his farm; he did not have suffi.
Glen ready money, so he put a mort. |
gage of $500 on the farm. H bought
IL cows and retailed the milk to resi-.
dents of the town. He had to work
hard, and yet he found little spare
time to raise some vegetables and
fruit. He was reasonably successful,
put there were so many things needed
that he was unable to cut down his
mortgage. In the meantime his wife
kept poultry. She began with a flock
of purebreds and eventually enlarged
her hocks into the HUNDREDS. The en-.
larged her flocks into the hundreds. J
The enterprise being her own. she
bought and paid for the food and
saved the income. She never told Of
her profits to her husband. For that
matter he never thought much of her
The debt on the farm, small as II
was, continually worried this farmer
and his wife noticed it. One morning
she told him she was going to lift
Inc mortgage. He smiled, thinking
shewas joking. When she produced
Inc ready cash he could scarcely he.
ieve his own eyes. To this day that
farmer has the greatest faith in hens
Every poultryman should know how
% perform an autopsy on a fowl with
he view to investigating the cause Of
is death. Furthermore, a close study
II the organs of direst;or hro..,