Williams news., 1922-01-27
ENOCH CREWS MATCHES
 25O,OOO CHICKS YEARLY

1 EnOch Crews who carries an
 ad. offering baby chicks for
 sale, in another column of the
 News. The following inter view from the Santa Cruz News answer such queries:
 At No. IA Plum street, about a block from Seabright avenue I found the new chicken hatch cry, and MT. Crews, with his able assistants, Mrs. w. J. Collins, of 596 Sequel avenue,
 and Mrs. Mansfield of 58 Ow-
 en street.
 I asked MT. Crews how many incubators he has running and
 he replied "about 40" this time of year and when the full hatch ing season opens again he will have over a hundred of his own and rents about fifty others.
 "How many baby chicks do you hatch in a year,"
 About a quarter of a mill lion," was his reply.
 As I had seen MT. Crews baby chicks ad. in the papers and known him for good while, through them, I asked him to tell me about how he had gotten ino the matching game.
 He looked pleasantly at me for a moment and launched in to the recital of the history of the commercial poultry expan- sion in Santa Cruz district so enthusiastically that I looked at him in amazement. It sent a thrill all over me to see the interest this busy man took in just newspaper reporter; but i l got my pencil to moving and | caught some of the story that is ahead of most of the kind you i get in books. i
 Eleven years ago MT. Crews l was the circulation manager of l the Santa Cruz Evening News; and as he went about the city, i getting subscriptions, collecting: etc; occasionally he found who had an incubator and was doing some artificial matching.
 He said: At times retrench- mentS were necessary in the pay roll at the office and the used to wonder who was likely to be hit next; times were pretty hard here then; so [ decided to be on the lookout for something, and when I asked the people who had in ,ubators what they did with the chickens I was told they could sell all they could hatch, so I decided to go into the busi- 1ess." l
 He replied to my question as 1 o how long ago he began this ] business that it was about II years ago. :;
 "Who was ahead of you in 1 poultry game here," asked?
 Thomas, Mable and Philip , Iynes and one or two others" S le replied. t
 "How many incubators did l or start with" then asked? (
 'EI started with one machine I leven years ago; and five years I go I had four"
 Mr. Crews then showed me i 'roUgh his new building. COX ( Q feet in size, and which he S attends very soon to enlarge to t ear double that. iC
 l looked at the many new t lachines and found they were
 lot of them at least, of a pat i: arn that were new. to me and t yas informed that he has in + tailed all electric machines. (
 Do you find them more t } atisfactory than the lamp heat c d machines" I asked? tl
 He replied that they were oing good work, and that by n he has learned to l b egulate the moisture, which h 'as his worst drawback until ls v proper ventilation they are n rowing satisfactory; and that A y carefully culling all eggs he u ow puts in the machines and II 'avlng out all but first class m ggs he is this season matching m lot of the best chicks he has u yer gotten. Il
 At this iuncture of our con- S ersation I heard the musical b. eep. peep of tiny voices, and D, oklng into one of the W achines, I saw some tiny u llcks. just matched, and other $;