The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-11-10
SOME D0N'TS
ON POULTRY
Visit Several Successful Poultry
Farms Before Beginning
Business.
MARKET YOUR EGGS FIRST
Miller Gives instructions Which May
Save Beginner Loss OF Many
Dollars.
MARKET YOUR EGGS FIRST
By Ohio l.. Miller.
Continued from last issue.

If the beginner thinks he is ready
to buy his flock my advice is to wait
until he has visited several poultry
houses. talked with the man who has
lost as well as the man who has made
money AS the poultry business is
divided into several subdivisions, be
certain that you have selected the de-
partment you intend to follow, from
the following classifications:
Departments of the Poultry Business.
First-Buying baby chicks and rails
ing them for laying hens to produce
eggs for the market as food. M. II.
Crittenden has a farm located on
Iogged-off land north OF Richland
Highlands. He has good buildings
equipped with modern facilities, in
GLIDING electric lights for the chick
ems. and keeps 100 hens, mostly pull
lets. They are laying about GO per
cent. At present prices his feed costs
about SIS. 90 a day. He is building still
larger houses and expects to double
his output. Does all the work himself.
Second-Hatching baby chicks for
.he egg producers. This requires a
large Investment for incubators, and
also working capital. Perhaps the
largest poultry business, including a
hatchery with all modern equipments,
with $4,000 laying hens, is at Alder
wood, midway between Seattle and Ev-
erett, on the Interurban. Here they
also demonstrate and teach the poul-
try business to all settlers on the
land nearby They have a ready mar
ket for their baby chicks at their own
door. Their capacity is $4,000 baby
chicks at one hatch.
All the homes in the vicinity of AL
derwood are located on logged-off land
about 10000 acres are being cleared.
Another large hatchery, owned by
e. Anthony, is located one-half mile
west of Richland Highlands, on logged
off land. His hatchery has capacity
of $1,000 baby chicks at one hatch.
He keeps no chickens and operates
the plant alone. To get the best re-
suits he buys eggs from the breeders
of the champion hens that have the
highest records, raises cockerels from
these eggs and gives them to his
neighbors who have high standard
hens. Then he buys the eggs and
matches them for the commercial egg
producers. They sell at 20 cents each.
He is said to have the largest electric
hatcher in use.
Third-The Hope Poultry farm, on
logged-off land, located near Edmonds,
combines a hatchery with CONNER
cial egg business; sells day-old chicks,
reproduces it's own flocks and sells
cockerels.
Fourth-Many farmers living near
the Anthony hatcher keep hens from
which to breed for baby chicks. They
sell their eggs to the hatchery and get
Is cents more for them than market
price.
Fifth-The large breeds are raised
for both meat and eggs. The Barred
Rocks, the Rhode Island Reds and
the White Wyandottes are the most
popular of the heavy breeds.
Sixth-Some breeders find it profit
able to raise fancy stock for show at
fairs and poultry shows, take pre-
miums, advertise, and sell high-priced
eggs and cockerels.
An Opinion and Some Don'ts.
My opinion is that no matter what
department the beginner is going to
follow it is better to commence with
the production of eggs as food for the
market. Then expand, contract or
sidestep into the other work as op.
portunity and knowledge will suggest.
Here are some of the don'ts:
Don't follow every suggestion given
you by the so-called successful poul-
tryman or poultry journal - many
times they do not know any more than
you do.
Don't buy baby chicks from a com.
mercial hatchery that buys its eggs
from any farmer who has eggs for
sale.
Don't buy baby chicks or Matching
eggs from a producer unless he has
an established reputation.
Don't imagine that because you
have ten hens that lay nine eggs a
day, 1000 hens will lay 900. They
won't do it.
Don't buy pullets and cockerels un'
less you see them and know that they
are from high standard, laying stock.
Pigs are pigs and chickens are chick
ems, but there is just as much difer'
ence between a laying strain of chick
ems, bred for several years to lay and
from the best layers, as there is dit.
ference between guinea pig and a
real pig.
Don't feed anything the dealer Of
fers you; he does not know. Get the
best feed by applying for a bulletin
on all subjects from the experimental
station at Puyallup, Wash.
Don't buy old hens; they have layed
out or have played out, or they would
not be for sale.
II were going into the poultry