The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
CURE AS A
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

The breeding of domestic fowls on
large scale has recently taken
commanding place among American
industries. Thousands of people are
everywhere inquiring about this COM
paratively new and very interesting
business. One thing seems certain
it has came to stay. The character
of the work and the universal de-
mand for the product make the rails
ing of fine fowls calling of perman-
ent interest and large promise.
The census shows that in 1910 there
was nearly 300,000,00O domestic fowls
in the United States. These numbers
have been leaping higher and higher
every year. We are now producing
some 1,s00,OOO,O0O dozens of Eggs an
nually! These figures are sufficient
proof that the culture of fowls has
taken its place among the really
great industrial movements.
New Business Enterprise.
Poultry culture has recently risen
into prominence as business enter
prise. There were only few people
twenty-five years ago who were de-
pending on the raising of domestic
fowls as an exclusive occupation
Nearly everybody with half chance
kept few chickens. But the tehory
was well fixed in the minds of the
people that, while small flock of
hens could be kept with fair degree
of profit, large flock would be GER
tain to be burden and an expense.
Winter eggs were not yet dreamed of.
The mammoth Matching machine and
the great colony broodcr stove were
yet in the brains of their inventors.
Today thousands of people are On =.
gagged in poultry raising as an exclu-
sive business. There are large cor
porations with Matching capacities of
hundreds of thousands during a sea-
son. The baby-chick industry has be-
come a speciality line with many
poultrymen. Fabulous numbers of
these little fluffy, day-old, products
are being shipped at all seasons and
over astonishing distances. Every
possible phase of poultry culture is be-
ing swiftly developed. The result is
that multitudes of men everywhere
are considering the culture of the
domestic fowl, on a large scale, as
an attractive business opportunity.
Demands for Poultry Products In
creasing.
The drift of the people. from the
country to the city appears to. in
| crease rather than diminish. The
massing of people in great cities and
| industrial centcrs, while the rural
| population in most sections is grow
| ing less and less, creates an exhaust
less demand for the products of the
poultry yard. This demand under
present economic conditions is bound
to become greater. The upward move
ment of all food prices, especially in
the meat line, is bound to bring poul-
try culture more to the front
There is no article of diet more
constantly and insistently in demand
by the cooks Of the entire country
than eggs and poultry. Most house
| wives will have eggs for their cook
ing even at 60 cents dozen. Of
course the people of liberal fortune
use all forms of the products Of the
poultry plants throughout the year
without regard to prices. The only
requirements is, QUALITY.
| The Department of Agriculture at
Washington reported that two years
ago there was a shortage of nearly
2O,0O0,00O meat animals, including
sheep, hogs, and becvcs, in compari-
son with the census Of 1910. This
one statement is sufficient to account
for the still soaring prices Of all kinds
of meat stuffs. 1t means, too, that
poultry raising on the largest posi-
bic scale is demanded in this country
If the people would have the meat
supply which they positively require.
1T IS not strange, therefore, that thou
sands Of business men Of first class
callber are taking hold of the rails
| ing OF fowls as one Of the most
promising commercial propositions.
Modern Methods Are Multiplying
Possibilities.
Science and invention have come to
the rescue here as in most other great
! movements. The national government
has placed its peerless powers of
scientific research at the disposal of
the people in discovering ana publish