Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-29

= There must he standing room. Cramp-
ed quarters are a serious handicap with
poultry as in any business. The One
Man Plant" must I've no dimtnutiVc thing.
The little back yard LAYING house is nee
essary if we are to set the most out of
life: but neither 100 hens. nor 50 will
make business for any one man
FIVE ACRES OR MORE
There should be farm of at least five
acres Every foot of this Ground should
be available for instan: use every day of
the year Room is of supreme Importance
in poultry culture. T. is so important :ha',
instead Of five acreA. 80 would he better
even for this one-man farm
one of the most common blunders of
the novice in the poultry business is thai
OF selecting plot Of one or TWO acres
only as a basis of operation. Most wild
birds live from Labrador to Central Amer
ica according to the season. Domestt'
fowls are only wild birds tanned, confined
within comfortable limits. The less SPACE
they are allowed, therefore, the more the
deepest instincts Of their natures are an
tagonzed.
Surely there is room enough between
tho oceans for every pouitrYman to have
all the acres he needs to make his husi-
7css the greatest possible success. Not
.eas than I'VE acres: 80 if possible as the
basis of operations.
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.
The buildings and yards should be ar
ranged according to an exact system.
Efficiency and convenience are to he the
foremost detectives. The poutryman
mus; never forget that he is dealing wSh
q great number of small things He must
handle one chicken 80 times as easily as
he handles one cow Otherwise his lack
Of efficiency will fatally handicap him.
Every poultry house on the place should
he within a short reach of the proprietor S
living quarters. Compactness and con-
vcnience in the arrangement of the build
ings will mean an immense saving of time
and time VIII De The deciding factor in
this One-man business. Steps by thou
sands must lie saved. This can he done
by close and quick connections between
the different parts of the plant.
An incubator cellar with a capacity Of
several thousand chicks is one of the chief
features OF the place. The cellar bot
tom s':oud he four feet below the sur
face, and the ceiling should he eight feet
high. colony hrooGer stoves, with capa-
city Of 500 to leo chicks, should be used.
These also mean great saving of time
over old methods. These stoves cost from
81 UP to s35 apiece, according to size. one
man in the famous Vineiand. New jersey
poultry district showed me brooder
horse 14x2S feet with one colony stove
The previous season he ran 400 chicks
through that house with loss of only
six per cent.
The laying houses should he from 16 &c
% fee, wide and any length desirable. II
orGcr to economic time, LAYERS must be
kept in large nocks. Usually from 100 II
go birds are kept in each pen.
The one-man plant must have the mos
modern equipment The aim is to elim
nate as far as possible the expense o.
hiring help during most of the year Thi,
can be done only by the most scientii,
management and therefore the most skill
fu use of modern labor-saving devices
These are numerous and constantly in
creasing. The poutryman who does no
make the most of them will he the lose
in that same degree
NEED or \ BUSINESS PERSONALITY
Poultry culture is no chd's play. TIL
man who thinks ii is plum easy to vii
out in this business better move eau
tiouslY. Hundreds of one-man plants ar
INV btIlIE bIItl dltu successfully, blt tn
tone man" in each case has n bushes
personality. He knows what dead reck
'ning" means. He knows the value o
an exact system of bookkeeping II
ee9a close tab on the prices Of cvcrythin
HAT he buys or sells In his business II
Knows he exact time to sell surplus eggs
and where 20 sell them at the largest fl
noncial advantage. He counts the COS
OF buying tons of feed at retail prices
and computes the profits of purchasn
~ the car load He has the courage t
venture and the caution to keep closel
to the safety first principle He's a
all-around business man.
There's great business opportunity i
poultry culture; but the same bushes
ability thai is demanded in other calling
Is necessary here. 1t ia simply a fnancif
proposition from beginning to end, Xix
any other business from making pins I
building droadnoughts The man who ma
fair degree Of organizing ability.
vision that can see wildly 70 month
ahead, the capacity and the patience
handle successfully many small detail
ara who loves the rearing and care
beautiful fowls, will find a large oppol
. trnity awaiting him on the one-man farm
If he lacks these things, or any one {
them, he had better move slowly towar
this new calling. If he knows nothing
fowls and nothing of country life he ha
the whole system to learn. This will TAX
time-and more time than most me
think
THINGS THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS:
% Stock with native stamina Yo
emit make an oak keel out of white pin
You can't start with soft tin and make
amascus steel blade. II you finish wit
s eel you must begin with steel, or with
metal that has the possibilities of ste
within 1t. This one-man farm must ha,
rs It foundation stock birds that hay
;, toughncss of fiber eyes that CLEAN lil