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TEACHER OF PIANO
324 West Idaho. Phone 205
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even' home in this vicinity. We are not go
ing to sell them but are going to give one
with your next purchase of a pair of shoes.
SEE OUR NICE LINE OF
JUST RECEIVED AT
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Farm Wagons Buggies
Everything in
Harvesting Machinery
Harness and Saddlery
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Big
Premium Offer
We will give a special premium of Ten Dollars
($10.00) to the winner of first premium on best loaf of
bread at the Box Butte county fair this year, if the bread
was made from flour bought of us.
To the winner of second premium on loaf of
bread we will give a special premium of Five Dollars
($5.00) on the same conditions.
Now is the time to commence practicing
with this flour.
We handle the
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E. LGregg Sc Son
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of Vacation Tours
Very low round trip rates this summer to the
Pacific Coast
Chicago and the Lake Region
Atlantic Seaboard and Eastern Cities and Resorts
Colorado and Utah Resorts
Space does not permit giving them all in detail, but now is
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me regarding fares, etc., and let me help you make your sum
mer vacation plans.
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business men and investors in the new towns spridingttp along the
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I. What Branch of the
Poultry Business.
By MILO M. HASTINGS.
Formerly Poultry man at Kansas Experi
ment Station. Commercial Poultry Ex
pert oi the United State Depart
ment of Agriculture, Author
of "The Dollar Hen."
Copyright, 10tO, by American Press Asso
ciation. POULTRY keeping more per
haps thnu any other Industry
Is engnped In for tho double
purpose of profit and pleasure,
Tho fanner Is rarely conscious of
tho fact that he Is keeping poultry for
pleasure, yet the farm without Its cus
tomary flock of chickens would seem
rather dreary, and tho farmer's tnblo
without Its customary supply of fresh
eggs and fried chicken would be sadly
deficient.
The object of pleasure enters moro
largely in the case of those who keep
poultry In towns and villages. Not
only docs the flock of chickens glvo
the Tillage or suburban resident an oc
cupation which Is n pleasure after con
fining indoor work and supply bis ta
ble with a quality of food ho cannot
purchase in the market, but in the ma
jority of cases villagers us well as
many farmers And great pleasure in
poultry breeding and exhibition as a
hobby. The extent to which this
puase of poultry keeping has been de
veloped is readily secu from the multi
tude o poultry shows held throughout
the country during the fall and winter
months.
In attempting the study of a scries
of lessons in poultry keeping tile poul
trymnn or would be poultryman should
form a clear conception In his mind of
the relation in his own case of these
various objects or ends for which tho
poultry business is commonly engnged
In.
The Farm Flock.
The prime object for which the farm,
er keeps chickens is for his own ta
ble, and in order that bo may bare
sufUclent poultry products to supply
his table throughout the year there
will of necessity be at certain seasons
a surplus for the market; hence the
farmer who starts out to furnish hit
own table oon finds himself In the
market end of the poultry business.
I and as a flock of 100 hens require. but
utile more labor In their care than
'GOOD MOlt.NINUl"
twenty-five or thirty we find that the
most prosperous and intelligent farm
ers keep u rloek of about the former
size.
Now. if the farmer's quota of hens
goes much beyond this figure it will be
come necessary to divide the flock into
smaller units and go to other troubles
that nre rather Irksome for Che general
farmer who considers poultry as an
about the house job rather than as a
part of his regular farm operations
For the farmer who looks at it in
this way simplicity in methods is ad
visable, for a general utility (lock of
this size will not yield a suthclently
large Income to warrant more expen
sive methods of bousing and care that
would be perfectly proper In the case
of a breeder of fancy fowls or a poul
try farmer who kept several hundred
hens. .
The farm Is an excellent place for
breeding standard bred poultry, and I
have uotblug but eucouragmeut for
the farmer who Is Interested in the
show bird end of It. In tbls case be
will require separate houses and yards
and a building wherein be may coop
single fowls duriug the show season
and will In general find it necessary
to put mort- time and expense on bis
poultry work If he expects to make
a success of the breeding stock part
of the business.
The Village Poultryman.
The villager I would by all means
advise to keep standard bred poultry
ond to take an interest In poultry
breeding and poultry shows. From
the nature of bis surroundings he is
obliged to keep bis fowls yarded, and.
us the time he spends with his chick
ens' is recreation, the more individual
care, which he will find it desirable to
give fancy fowls, will not be be
grudged. The production of poultry products
to ell at ordinary market prices Is
always profitable for the farmer, for
on the free range plan of bis poultry
keeping Iniwr and food nts are both
imn-li redui-ed Poultry keeping enn
also be made' profitable when engnged
In on n lirge scale, lu which case, be-
MILO M. HASTINGS
cause of the targe number of chickens
to bo attended to, the labor can be re
duced to a systematic basis and will
require but very little tlmo per fowl.
On soino of tho well known egg farms
ono man feeds and cares for from
2,000 to 3,000 hens.
The village poultry plant where but
a fow dozen fowls are kept must neces
sarily have a larger feed bill thau tho
farmer and n higher Inbor expenso
per fowl thnn cither farm or com
mercial poultry plant For these rea
sons the villager who hires a man to
take core of his poultry or expects It
to earn wages for his own time is, If
the product is sold nt ordinary market
rates, very likely to be disappointed.
Now, if the villager takes up fancy
poultry breeding and devotes his time
to the art he bus excellent chances of
becoming well known as a breeder and
making a good profit In the business.
Meanwhile be should have enough tovo
for his work so that be will be content
to get back a little more than his
actual money outlay and give Ills time
for the pleasure of tbo work and the
hopes of profits later on.
Poultry Farming as a Buslneis.
I presume there will be some who
read this course in poultry keeping
who will be desirous of engaging in
poultry production as a business. To
those 1 would say that after uinny
years of precarious existence poultry
farming is now established as a sound
branch of agriculture. Although there
Is no greater money to be mnde from
poultry than from many other branch
es of modern scientific agriculture,
there Is something about the business
that has Induced largo numbers of Ig
norant people to invest their savings
in poultry ventures, hopelessly bury
ing their money In expensively equip
ped plants designed by themselves or
others equally lguuruut of the business.
As is genernlly recognized, the only
sensible plan for one who proposes to
go Into poultry keeping as a business
Is to begin iu a small way, either in n
village or ou a farm, and keep poultry
lor n few years In conjunction with
some other occupation. If he is suc
cessful lu this. It will then be tlmo to
consider the keeping of poultry on a
more elaborate scale. A few general re
marks ou commercial poultry farming
I u-111 append, nowover, as a matter ot
general Interest.
The branch of poultry keeping that
nas proved most universally success
ful iu a large way Is egg farming. The
broiler farms have almost Invariably
been .allures, and the principle Is now
pretty thoinughly recognized that the
broiler should l.e considered as a by
product of the egg business. Just as
sklmmllk is u byproduct of the produc
tion of butter, Half or more of all
chicks hatched will be cockerels and
must be disposed of as broilers, for
with Leghorns and other egg types of
fowls male birds are worthless If a I
lowed to mature. This large surplus
of broilers from egg farms aud from
the general farm of the country Is suf
ficient to meet the demand and to re
duce the price to a point which will
permit of little profit to the man who
produces broilers exclusively.
The Idea of the broiler business an
attempted fifteen or twenty yenrs ago
was .to produce chickens duriug the
winter aud early spring season by the
use of lut-ulmtors and brooders and
secure fancy prices nt the season of
the year when no young stock was
coming from the general farm This
business, which did not prove success
ful then, would be even more Imprac
tical now, as our modern methods of
cold storage have become so ehlcleut
that It is entirely practical to freeze up
a supply of Inexpensive summer broil
ers and to meet the demnnd the fol
lowing winter and early spring with
fhls cheaply produced stock.
Another phase of poultry production
which Is successfully prosecuted In
limited localities Is the growing of
roasters.
In this style of poultry flesh pro
duction heavier breeds of slowly ma
turlng fowls are used, and both sexes
are allowed to reach maturity and nre
then marketed as fancy stock. The
possible profits of the production of
extra fancy market fowls in this man
ner have been limited, however, by
the custom of fatting or crate feeding
farm grown cockerels as now engaged
In by poultry packers and by many
farmers as well. Crate or milk fed
thickens offer a prime quality of young
poultry flesh, and hence, except for a
few markets where roasters from cer
tain communities already have a repu
tation, it would hardly be advisable to
take, up thls Hue of poultry production.
A recent development In specialized
poultry work Is the public, hatchery
This business Is usually conducted In
conjunction with large poultry plants.
The shipping of day old chicks long
dltnnces by rnll Is now quite a fad
and bos probably been overdone. An
other abuse of the public hatchery Is
the selling of chicks from eggB of un
certain origin. Heglnners should not
undertake public batching.
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AT HW,
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