The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-12-19
.RET|RES FROM FARM,
STILL MAKES MONEY
Missourian Finds Poultry
Raising Is a Profitable
Business.
HOLDS EGG RECORD
University Short Course Gave
Good Foundation For
Success.
HOLDS EGG RECORD

Wanted: A Missouri poultryman to |
beat this record: An average of 161
eggs day from flock consisting No |
vember 1, 1918, >of 1873 hens, with a |
net profit of $2,463.20 for the year
1888. In Ray County lives a re-
tired farmer, NJ. P. Hollar, who is re-
garded by the College of Agriculture |
as the foremost chicken raiser in the
state according to- Prof. H. L. Kemp
ster of the poultry department.
Mr.. Hollar does not regard his work
as UNUSUAL. He believes that the
same success can be achieved by any
man if he is willing to pay the price
A few years ago, because of ill
health, he decided to retire from the
large farm which he was operating.
Contrary to the general custom of re-
tired farmers, Hollar did not elect to
spend the rest of his days playing
checkers, but chose to go into farm
poultry keeping. He bought twen-
ty-acre farm near town; erected a
home, and settled down to business.
| Now his work is attracting atten-
tion. Last spring demonstration
was held on his farm and $50 of his
neighbors, some of whom came from
Is miles away, visited his farm to find
out the secret of his wonderful re-
suits.
Took Front Seat i'm Poultry Shows.
Hitherto chicken raising with the
Hollars had been much the same
proposition that it is in the average
Missouri farm. The results had not
been satisfactory and Mr. Hollar de-
termined to mend his ways. The an
nouncement of the University con-
cernihg a Farmers Short Course in
poultry keeping attracted his atten-
ton.
HE came to our poultry shows,
took front seat and took everything
in," said Professor Kempster.
Hollar was convinced but his wife
was not. Like many other Missou-
rians, she had to be shown.
I Mike, that man never raised a
chicken in his life or he wouldn't
talk that way" was her doubling
comment upon his report of what her
husband had heard. But he had his
notes in his pocket and he achieved
such results through his faithful pur-
suit of thhese, that his wife made no
objection when he returned to the
Farmers Week the following year.
He modestly admitted that he had
done we'll.
Sends Monthly Record to University.
That was in January, 1916. Since
] that time he has been sending to the
University, monthly record of the
poultry work on his farm. These rec
a ords include the feeds used, their cost,
poultry and eggs consumed and sold.
The account for this year shows that
his expenses were $1,159.92, and his
sales were $3,623.12. This leaves a
net profit of $2,463.20. His practice
of culling his flock down at the end
of the season is recognized as the
+ best poultry practice.
Zone reason. says Professor Kemp
ster, "that Mr. Hollar has realized the
q success that he has is because of his
s rigid selection of the birds to be kept
4 in his laying fiock.''
- In 1917, lie culled his flock of $50
hens SO rigidly that only IS were kept
over. Last year he kept 1SS hens out
of a flock of 430. The Stacker hen
speedily finds herself on he way to
market. Did your foes average 161
eggs hen for the year? That is the
record which the flock of Mr.. Hollar
made
In engaging in the poultry busi-
4 ness, Mr.. Hollar followed out two i'm
portant courses; he sought reliable
information before he began the
work, and he was content to start out
in small way and increase the size OF
his flock as experience dictated The
first year between April / and Octo-
ber 81, he sold and consumed above
feed cost from 1873 hens $154.42 worth
of poultry and eggs, and increased his
flock 119 birds. The second year
3 from $50 hens, his sales above feed
cost were $4,000, not including a
flock increase of IT'S birds. This year
191S-19, his income above feed cost
was mere than 800 month.
He spares no expense in the selec-
tion of male birds for his flock. This
year, he sold 10000 eggs for Matching
during March and April. In this way
he has added materially to his in
4 come
4 He Is Also Good Citizen.
4 That is the record of Missourian
Not only is Mr.. Hollar good poultry
man but he is also a good citizen
HIS neighbors come to him to learn
the why and how of poultry raising
At the suggestion of the extension
4 poultryman last fall, he offered his
services to his .neighbors and culled
sixty-six flocks. handling more than
$4,000 birds, and culling out 44O0 hens
as slackers. This represents saw
ing in feed of s2.500, says Professor
Kempster. At first, he made ne
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