The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY /, 1917
The chicken Comes Into It's own.


believe that this is the fact just 60 up
to the Coliseum this week and see the
display Of poultry that is to be found
there. It will be something of an eye
opened to YOU. The time was-and 1T
was not many years ago-that the barn
ward fowl was not considered matter
of particular interest. Chickens were
considered a sort of a necessity on the
farm to act as scavengers and give the
women folks something to occupy their
time with. The product of them was
considered sort of by-product' to be
hawked to the huxter for tinware or to
be used in decorating the front of the
house of some man who was not popular
il. the community. But with eggs sell
ING at fifty cents a dozen and then
some the chicken is rated as one of the
real producers in the country. Time
was when the old bossy cow was consid-
cred a sort of a by-product too but this
time has passed long time ago and the
great dairy interests which have been
developed have brought old bossy up to
the very front rank of things which the
farm must produce If the farm is to be
made anything like 100 per cent eff1c-
lent.
The fellow who said, "never mind if
a black hen lays white egg--Get the
egg'' was clever in the old days. He
was something Of humorist, but the
man who is in the chicken business now
knows that it pays to know why the
black hen lays the white egg. He knows
the difference between the demand for
white eggs and brown ones. knowledge
of the poultry roost is getting to be
pretty nearly as valuable as knowledge
of the silo and the cow barns. People
are not going to pay sixty cents dozen
for eggs unless they know that they are
getting the last word in eggs. People
are beginning to learn that when they
buy the chicken for the Sunday dinner
that they get more for their money If
they buy the chicken from a man or
woman who knows how to raise it and
raise it so as to make it the best possible
food product. The buying public is
beginning to demand fowls for dinner
which are raised under the right condi-
lions, chickens which are free from dis
ease and which have been properly fed
to make the flesh of them the greatest
possible value in fowl food product.
The fancy chicken, the one which
traced it's lineage just as surely as the
King of England, to other chickens who
had records for efficiency was at one
time the plaything of the man who want
ed toy. Now it is necessary to have
fancy chickens if you want to make
the poultry house pay the largest re-
turns. 1t is just as important to get a
hundred eggs year from hen as it is
TIC get certain number of pounds of
milk d day from COW. The chicken
just like every thing else shows that
"blood will tell. The proud Bleak
Spanish hen knows that she has rec
ord for accomplishment just as surely
as the Holstein or the Guernsey and the
Black and Buff Orpingtons have caste
in the chicken world just as surely as
the English Coach breed stands out
supreme among horses. The man who
raises chickens now does not do it as a
pastime. He knows that one of the
real sources of wealth on the farm and
lots of time at the residence III town is
flock of chickens, pre-. arly selected
and properly cared for. Education of
men as to how to take care of chickens
has been taken up in the colleges and
the universities and there is enough
Knowledge being disseminated every day
to make every man who has a poultry
yard an expert.
The raising Of chickens opens way
for every man to become his own boss.
1t is peculiarly a business which may
not be controlled by trusts and combina
tions. The small capitalist and this
means man with only few dollars
may go into it with the assurance that
is not going to be crowded out by
competition. 1t is a business of infinite
interest for the development of fine
flock Of chickens carries just as much
in accomplishment as writing better
book or making better mouse trap. =
1T is particularly the business of the
poor man OF the ambitious woman. Prop
erly attended to it renders higher de-
gree of profit than lot of other bust
nesses and it offers in addition life IN
the open air and an occupation which
must be interesting because it is direct.
~ connected with the development Of
living things. The chicken business is
in it s infancy. and it is certain that the
future holds much for the man who
seeks this very interesting employment
Of his whole time or part of his time.
At any rate don t miss seeing the poul-
try show. 1t is real Kenosha show
and it shows what Kenosha and Kenosha
county is doing to improve breed of
servers of the common wealth the i'm
portance of which is growing every
6ey.
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