El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-04-13

supply.
The bulletin says, in part
The success Of poultry raising in
New Mexico. like all other industries,
depends principally upon the quality
of the output, as we'll as the amount
Of intelligent effort that Is put into
the work.
There are about twenty-five large
poultry ranches in this state; besides
these there are many small ones that
are conducted in connection with gen.
eral ranching, The larger ones send
out big consignments of eggs and
poultry to many of the principal cities
of the east, while one poultry ranch
in Otero county, conducted by a wom-
an, ships nearly all of its eggs to Los
Angeles, Calf, where they are in
demand for sanatoriums and health
resorts, and where they command a
uniform price of soc a dozen the year
round. Every carton, in which the
eggs are shipped, is marked with the
date on which the eggs therein were
laid, thus guaranteeing fresh ranch
eggs to the purchaser. There are ID
900 White Leghorn chickens on this
farm, which is n of the largest and
most successful in the state.
Another ranch, near Albuquerque,
contains n acres OF land and 1400
chickens, and during the year 1915
the proprietor sold $4,000 worth of
poultry and eggs from his yards,
while the running expenses Of the
ranch for the year amounted TO $140Q,
or an average of 81 for each fowl.
This ranch has been in operation
about seven years.
AT the New Mexico State Fair, held
at Albuquerque in October, 1915, the
poultry exhibit was an especially fine
one. There were $50 entrants, and
about one-third of these were by ex-
hibitors from outside the state, Colo.
RADIO and California being especially
well represented. Several large poul-
try raisers in Roosevelt county that
make a speciality of Rhode Island
Reds, as well as other extensive poul-
try ranches in Curry. Chaves and Eddy
counties, had splendid exhibits.
1t is worthy of note that, with more
than a thousand birds on exhibition,
a poultry raiser OF Santa Fe county
off four prizes, including more
than any other exhibitor OF the
single.comb variety of the White Leg
horn, in which class 300 birds COM
Deted for honors. This poultry ranch
Is an illustration Of what may be ac-
complished along this line, in con-
junction with a fruit farm. About FIVE
years ago the owner came to New
Mexico in a physical condition known
as "a wreck Physicians in his home
Back East gave him but a short
time in which to live. But life looks
good to a man with a wife and grow
ing family, and he had youth and am
bition on his side. He bought this
apple orchard, of 35 acres, and
a systematic study of the best
methods of raising apples. With the
first years success came renewed
hope, while the outdoor work IN this
inyigorating climate and glorious sun
shine began to build up the shattered
health.
In the east he had kept chickens
IN the back yard, because he liked
Them. They were what might be cal
led his fad and he thought to put
his knowledge Of them to a practical
use. That prompted the beginning Of
his poultry ranch. He bought two set
Iings of White Leghorn eggs, paying
therefor the sum of S25 a setting.
From these eggs he raised a few
chickens the first year, and they were
the nucleus of what is now n Of the
finest laying and exhibition hocks in
New Mexico, and at the end Of FIVE
years his health is fully restored, his
ranch a model for beginners,
and himself and family among the
boosters" that this state can
boast. Most OF the proceeds from the
have been put back into the
business, with a view to improving It,
and it now consists Of several hun
bred birds OF the highest grade, an
up-to-date incubator cellar equipped
several of the latest models OF
%ncubators; a brooder-house, and