Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-30
LONGS CHICKEN RANCH THRIVING
 AT RENAL LAKE
YEAR OLD FARM SHOWS SPLEEN DID RESULTS IN PROFITS
 GENERAL LOOKS.
MANY FINE LEGHORNS
Has Motor Boat for Charter During Summer Season for Visitors
 or Hunting Parties.

On beautiful Kenai lake, at Lake view, MT. and Mrs. Howard Long have after five years toll, made such splendid progress with their chicken ranch that the products from the ranch are almost at a premium at this early date. Standing orders await them in the sale of chickens and fresh eggs, all being sold right at their door, Large, roomy and clean modern chicken houses have been erected and the soil titled on two plot of ground, on which is rais- ed sufficient quantities of vegetables for their wants. A small wharf ex- tends out into the bay, short dis tance from the door stoop, with motor boat and row boat generally found alongside. All this is there, and most of it accomplished in a years time, but not without much hard work and consistent effort on the part of MT. and Mrs Long. The result is that today, nowhere on the magnificent body of inland water, can be found more natural setting for a fine home and farm. A little baby came to grace the home few weeks ago, making it truly, wonder full home.
 Lots of Chickens.
 White leghorns galore, in all sizes of development, will be found peck ing away in the yard or roasting in the houses. There are 400 chickens on the farm, 100 of which are lay ing hens. In the breeders 200 chicks are hopping about In another sec tion of the chicken house are 55 three-month-old bullets.
 It is not every chicken that lives 1 inside of a plastered house, MT. Long remarked, for that is what he has finished the interior <ofesthe chicken house with. The pure, white walls the orderly array of troughs and roosts, the clean floors, the large windows and excellent ventilation present an excellent appearance, and the exterior and yards are just as nice looking as the interior of the house which is 2Ox5O feet in size. r:.> Mfalf <La+>~
 A well, 36 feet in depth, has been dug on the farm from which flows pure cold water. This will be dis tributed about the farm under fore ed pressure. A cellar has been dug under the chicken house in which a large heater will be placed during the winter months. A concrete stack of which there are too few in Sew ard, penetrates the building from the basement to the roof top. Another new and large chicken house is now in process of erection and will be probably completed by winter. From
 the water the building resembles z 1 dwelling.
 Good Soil On Farm.
 Splendid soil for growing vegeta | bles is found on the farm, where twt
 plots are now under cultivation | Vegetables of a varied variety ars
 being raised in the plot nearest tt
 the farm, some distance away, an
 other plot has been cleared and pu
 into berries. Hay is cut from thu nearby meadow. The clearing O
 land will be carried on this summe
 and planted to seed this fall. Thir
 teen acres comprise the area of MI
 and Mrs. Longs farm, reaching iron the lake shore back to the flask Railroad track, having at their dool
 one might say, transportation b rail or boat. It is convenient to sa the least, MT. Long affirmed. on If fbo ;o