Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-02-28
Violates All Rules;
Hens Endorse Plan

1t goes under the name Of H. w.
Cooley G Son, White Knoll Poultry
Farm, but as a matter of fact the
son is absent from home, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cooley run the ten-acre ranch
themselves, do all the work and reap
all the profits. And Mr.. Cooley is a
poultryman who keeps set Of books
as accurately as merchant or
banker. He was lumberman prior
to engaging in the poultry business
ten years ago, and accustomed to do
ing things in business way. At the
end of each year he balances his
books, and knows to cent just what
his revenues have been during the
previous twelve months, and from
what source they have been derived.
For example, he sold $4,0S8.9S worth
of poultry and eggs in 1916, and his
expenses, minus the time of himself
and wife,, were $1,9O7.20, leaving
him s2,1S1.1S, together with the
board of himself, wife and two chill
dren, as his profit for the year. In
1917 his sales Of poultry and eggs
were $5,466.14, and his expenses $2,-
913.75, leaving him $2,552.39 as
pensation for the years work Of him
self and Mrs. Cooley. The family liv-
ing expenses for four must be added
to the profit column.
Mr.. Cooley has made success of
his enterprise. He has at this time
good home 30x3O and two stories,
a two-story barn 36x36, one hen
house 16x96, one 1Sx60, an incubator
house 20x40 six brooder houses lex
80, and one two-story hen house 16x
48 feet in size. Every inch Of his
10 acres not covered by buildings is
free from all impediments to cultiva-
tion and his soil is deep and rich as
any in the country. Spring water is
piped into every building. The ca
pacity of the plant may be best un-
derstood when 1t is stated that he
has had $500 chicks in brooder
houses and 5000 eggs Matching at
the same time. The other day the
writer walked in among 500 White
Leghorn hens and roosters, as tame
as kittens, in one Of Mr.. Cooley's
buildings, and they were apparently
fat, plump and healthy. Asked as
to his methods Of feeding, Mr.. Cooley
his questioner by reply
ing:
81 amagine I have violated, in
feeding, every rule of the profession
al poultryman. Until wheat climbed
up to the distressing prices fed my
poultry about once a month. l have
fed them in bins which will hold as
much as four tons of grain. They
are pointed at the bottom and the
grain from them Sits down into a
.rough-just two boards shaped like
4 V. From these the poultry may
feed at will. Food was always be-
tore them, and / found that they
.hrived on this method Of treatment.
Didn't they take on fat? Yes, but
he more they ate and the more flesh
hey took on the better they pro-
,uced and the healthier they were.
IS layers l am confident my hens
ire the equal of any in the country.
This thing of imagining hens will :
lot do their best unless hungry is :
beyond my ken. AS for myself, I
lnow / am at my best when my stom-
Ich is satisfied.
"Since grain has attained to such
lights in values l have substituted
horts, middlings and corn meal, add
ng about 25 per cent of meat scraps.
also feed dry mash, mixing a gal
on Of charcoal to each 100 pounds,
nd sprinkle it with about a pound
+ salt. Occasionally substitute fish
neal for meat scraps, and Of course