The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

scale and gradually built it up until
now he annually quarters 1900 fe-
males, half of which are pullets. This
man does all the work himself 1t is
a big job, but as he has adopted a
system and lives up to it he as every
thing running smoothly. He reports a
net income of 500 month.
| No. 2 was formerly a hotelkeeper,
but growing tired of indoor labors he
longed for outdoor work. The hotel
was sold and a poultry plant started.
While he had sufficient capital to be
gin on large scale he preferred TO
increase the size of his plant gradu-
ally, thus learning his lesson thorough
ly. Today the farm is composed of
about 800 breeding and laying birds.
Every hen is trapnested, and each
year he retains the breeds only from
the cream of the flock.
No 8 came to Hammonton on ac-
count of his wifes poor health For
years he had been an invalid and
after trying the climate of all the
famous health resorts with practically
no relief, Hammonton was chosen and
proven to be the place of salvation.
A modern home with four and half
acres of land were purchased. A few
towels were secured, and the work of
attending to them as well as to the
cultivation of small garden, occupied
both his mind and body. Gradually
the poultry part increased, until today
he owns the largest one-man poultry
plant in this section of the country.
One thousand head of stock is quar-
tered, and the books show that an in,
come, clear, of five dollars per day
has been reached.
No. conducted a cigar store in
the city of Philadelphia for over rs
|yeasr. 1t meant hard work and long
hours. Standing behind a counter for
an average of fifteen hours day, and
that, too, in room more or less heav-
lily laden with tobacco smoke, broke
down his health, and the physician
advised that he give up city life and
get out into the open air of the coun-
try. Hammonton, with it's salt and
pine atmosphere and it's life-giving
water, was the chosen locality. This
all happened about fifteen years ago,
and today he has the most intensive
poultry plant in the town, yielding
a better income than that realized be-
hind the counter in the cigar store.
Then, too, better hours, more con-
genial work, pure air, and physical
eXertion, not only cured his attacks
of nerves" but restored a lost appe
tite and gave peaceful rest at night.
He keeps between 800 and 900 layers,
and his annual profit is $1,000.
All the above are one-man plants.
The only help these men get is what
assistance their wives can give, such
as helping to care for the chicks, or
asserting and packing eggs for ship
ment
No. 1 conducts purely an egg farm.
No. 2 sells table eggs, Matching eggs
and breeding stock. No. has mainly
an egg farm, and does custom hatch
ing. No. sells table and Matching
eggs, breeding stocks and baby chicks.
No. 1 has two acres devoted to
poultry. No. 2 has five acres. No. 3
has four and half acres. No. 4 has
one and half acres.
Here are living examples (and more
could be namely sufficient to prove
that there is good living in a poultry
plant if a man will personally apply
himself to the task, and does not &c
on too expensive scale. He must
use the same good business sence
necessary in any other line.
While all do not succeed is because
not all people are adapted to the work
We all have talents but they do not al
point in the same direction. So many
tire at the sameness of the work, anc
there is considerable of it in poultry
labor. 1t is the same thing every day
of the year, no respector of holidays
The man who can go through all this
and not get tired nor discouraged, is
the man whose name will be enrolled
with the successful poultry keepers
of this generation.