The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-02-17
HENS Will BRING PROFITS.
one Who Knows from Experience
Tell OF Gains from Poultry.

| one Who Knows from Experience
Tell OF Gains from Poultry.
4rhe idea of specializing on just one
crop has long been mania with too
many Of the fruit and grain ranchers,' =
writes NJ O. Adams of Oroyille. in a
communication to the. Wenatchee
Daily World Mr.. Adams is making
success of poultry raising and what
lie has to say on the subject should
prove OF deep interest and general
Importance to other farmers in this
section
'As how best to combine fruit, or
grain. with pork. cream and wool,
some one who has done it should tell"
ne continues. "Its evident to me though
that good many are keenly inter
ssted in adding a poultry department,
large or small, to their ranches. and
to offer my mite in assisting these
folks to get their -henvot6ey on
Straight | am writing these lines.
Natural liking for the business is
he first essential TO the man or wo-
man interested i'll adding poultry de-
partment to the ranch, and who wants
to-1inow, i'll one sentence, the essential
requirements for success. | would
answer: Preparation and Prevention.
Don't forget that for poultry rails
ing. It's as true as for fruit or grain
raising, that knowing what to do. how
to do it, when to do it. and going and
doing it is all there is to it,
But don't make the fatal mistake of
accepting too much handmade, half
baked advice from others who may re-
ally know no more about it than you
, already do. Not so long as the Tom
| Edison of the Poultry Industry is in
ne employ Of our state and in charge
Of the Western WASHINGTON expert
henI station.poultry work at Puyallup
VIII you have 10 guess as how best 10
! do things refer to Prof. George r
| Shoup. When you want down to date.
actually dependable information on any
OF your poultry problems write Prof.
Shoup. In fact ! cannot too strongly
urge upon you the ACCESSIBILITY of writ
ing him before taking up the work.
getting his free bulletins and asking
that you be placed on the bulletin
mailing list. You Will then be equipped
so far as trustworthy information
goes. Mix it up with elbow grease ana
apply intelligently on a flock of good
stuff, and you'll soon be on your way
Advising his readers who wish to
engage in the poultry industry to fol-
low Shoup procedure religiously. de-
Waiting only where experience sug-
gests the advisability in applying them
TO the new requirements of combined
fruit and egg raising upon the same
ground Mr.. Adams takes up the uues-
zion of which branch of the business
should be undertaken. He says: "ITn-
der those ranch conditions that would
enable one to produce pork and beef
at profit, the limited production OF
poultry for meat may be made profit.
able. Under other conditions. you
greatest profit will be in producina
eggs. There is no gainsaying the fac
that poultrymen who have kept books
on their flocks are today the Iarges
breeders of Single Comb White Leg
| horns, and l would feel that an
| sidestepping a stubborn fact if | d,
not point out that the surest route t,
certain profit for the amateur to tax
is the egg route Make your start wit
good stock"
| Mr. Adams points to the value of tn
hen as a producer of fertilizer as wei
as eggs. and says that in Californi
they are now working on the basis G
"a hen to the tree
| Neither cows, hogs nor sheep hav
so fully met the requirements as tn
| faithful hen in producing fertilizer
| he declares
H And for the profits A high produC
| ing Leghorn will consume about 8
| pounds of grain and mash in a yea
| Rather, she only separates the egg
from these elements, the rest goe
back to the soil to stay the day Of dc
cline in your ranch fertility. The eg
Of the future will be a cheap egg, the
| high egg, just like apples and whea
| but always an egg, the product of abb
| husbandry, that will average a prof
= And a good one.