The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-13
Fly MRS. JOHN c. MOSES Mississippi City. Miss.

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 In certain small town which needs no name. live William Black and John Smith, They are next-door neighbors and good friends, although totally unlike in temperament and disposition. Last year both of them became convinced of the value of a backyard poultry flock and each decided to install chickens in his own spacious back yard to supply his family with eggs and broilers.
 MT. Black is the type of man who al- ways quotes when anyone lifts an eye brow at some of his extravagant pur- chases, that the best is always the cheapest in the end" Mir. Smith, on the other hand, believes that often a cheaper Article will serve the purpose equally well and that the difference in cost looks well in his savings account book.
 When it came to selecting flock MT. Smith and Mir. Black were agreed that standard-bred fowls would more than pay for their increased initial expense by pro ducing more eggs than would mongrels, so they arranged with local chicken breeder for flocks of good egg-produe- ing strain He was to deliver the birds as soon as accommodations were ready for them.
 On the matter of housing the prospec- tive poultry keepers held widely diver gent views Mir Black hired a carpenter at s6 a day to erect for him a good looking, nicely finished poultry house. When the last coat of paint was on it. it truly was, as his high school son declared it to be, "a work of art
 A house so perfectly finished demanded the best of equipment, and MT. Black bought it. The number of things which he discovered, with the aid of a salesman
 that a properly brought up flock or chickens should have was amazing to ms family and depicting to his purse
 MT Smith, on the other hand, decided that he could build his own poultry house with the aid of his son. He procured two piano boxes and some smaller pack ing cases and they set to work. Both were handy with tools and in snort time the piano boxes had been converted into a comfortable, sanitary domicile for the chickens.
 The piano box house had been located in a corner of the yard where the fence which was already there would serve fer two sides of the yard. A few DO; V and some chicken netting completed the 1 inclosure Quick-growing vines were planted and soon screened the yard ana poultry house from view and the Ht.le shed served it's purpose we'll All the equipment for house and yard was male l also from the useful packing box. Both flocks were given good care ana did we'll and the Black and Smith faml- | lies enjoyed the strictly fresh poultry products. At the end of the year, how ever, MT Black declared that only rich man could afford to keep poultry ! in the city He was discussing the sub | feet with Mr. Smith: "Of course, strictly fresh eggs taste better, than any you can buy, but heavens, man, their o>) | All we had cost me about $2 a dozen, not | to mention my work in caring for the flock No sir, no more backward poui- try keeping for me. I can't afford IL. 1 Then MT Smith spoke up: Youf 1 trouble is that of many others who gc into poultry raising. You spent too m'N' on the house and equipment. Nests made 1 out of orange boxes or coops made out l of barrals may not look as elegant as those you can buy, but they serve then purpose. and cost almost nothing My accounts show that the eggs my 1ioch nroduced cost us much less than we coulo have bought them on the market, TOT aside from the flock itself. you see
 had little capital invested in the project.