flE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, MAT 10. 1911. RICHES IN POULTRY RANCHES Demand of Northwest Makes Chicken Farming Profitable. MILLIONS SPENT IN THE EAST Flcares how that Lrn tama Arc Laid Oat to Whip la Kssa and Fowls for Table ton-anntptlon. UPOKANK. Wssh., May s.-Climste. market find th possibilities of Intensive agriculture on Irrlgatod. dry-farmed and logged-off lands combine to make poul try raising and rgg culture a highly prof itable Industry In the Spokane country; but, while growers have been trying for yean to supply the needs of the towns In eastern Washington and Oregon, northern Idaho and western Montana, the demand Is stronger and prices correspondingly higher than ever. The rapid growth of the Urban communities and the remarkable Increases In population of the cities Is one of the causes assigned. In other Words, the Industry has not kept pace with the general development. Five thous 1 and growers axe needed to supply the lo cal markets. How much of a factor the poultry In dustry has become In the Inland empire is apparent when It la mentioned that the Bpoksne Chamber of Commerce has de cided to Include it In Its newly created in dustrlal department, which la under the direction or a general committee, headed by Frank R. Culbertson. The sub-committee, which' will have charge of poul try and game. Is composed of A. C. Ware, chairman; B. O. McCllntock, Lewis M. Moss, John L. Smith and Charles Uhden. This committee will gather all the data and Information available on poultry rais ing and markets with a view to encour aging homeseekers to engage in a busi ness which will add several millions of dollars annually to the wealth production cf tL Bpokane country. 1 Millions In Poultry. The extent of the market In the Inland empire may be gathered from a statement by commission merchants in Spokane, who Imported 160 cars or 1,800.0)0 dosens of eggs last year from the middle western states. In addition to several millions of dollars' worth of dreKsed poultry. It Is estimated that between )T,500.0iO and fc, 000,000 was sent out of the country into states eaat of the Rocky mountains for poultry pro ducts in 1810. This would indicate it will be many years before the supply In the district will be anywhere near the demands of the home markets and confirms the assertion that poultry products will al ways find buyers at top prices. The value of poultry and eggs produced In the Spo kane country lam year la placed at , 000.000. For the amount of capital required the industry otfeis many opportunities for the suburban reBident. the horrfeseeker and the farmer In the inland empire. The dis trict Is an ideal one and the advantages and conditions are as a hundred to one against the few disadvantages of the bus iness Itself. Feed Is high in price when not grown on the land by the poultry raiser. That Is a disadvantage in one sense, but this is more than offset by ths higher prices received for poultry and eggs, and the fact there are no such diseases as gapes and cholera. Costly houses are not necessary because of the dry and mild climate and chickens may be fed outside nearly every day of the year. Growers in the Inland empire have found . that poultry raising can be combined to good advantage with dairying, truck gar dening and orcharding. Apple and other fruit trees require from four to seven years to attain a alxe that will bear a profitable crop, and during this time, also afterward, poultry can be kept in the orchard. When coupled with dairying and , hog growing it means cheap feed for the chickens, as there always is mors or less waste. Money in Eg(i. John R. Crossth walte. an experienced poultry grower at Deer Park, Wash., says In a letter to the Spokane Chamber of Com merce in reply to a request for a statement regarding the profits In poultry raising in the Spokane district: "Eggs can be produced at a cost of from 10 to U cents sud are easily sold at an Lieut. Col. Lassiter to Be in Command at the Fort Crook Post To Be Promoted to Colonel and As signed to the Fourth Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel William Lassiter, now stationed at Fort Logan H. Roots, has been promoted to the rank of colonel and assigned to the Fourth Infantry and the general presumption at Fort Crook la that he will be ordered to Fort Crook to take command ol the post. For some time the post has had no com mander. The office has been filled by Major Atkinson until a colonel had been appointed to the office. Although the order has not been received as yet from Wash ington Colonel Lassiter will be the logical person for the vfflca. Major D. C Shauks, now stationed at Co lumbus Barracks, O., has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and assigned to the Fourth Infantry and will take the offlos left vacant by Colonel Lassiter. He will go to Fort Crook and remain until ordered to Fort Logan H. Roots. Colonel William Lassiter was born In North Carolina in 1861 and received his ap pointment to West Point from that stats, lie was admitted to West Point. Septem ber L 1868. and grc.duated with high honors on July IS, um. In October, 1ST I. he was commissioned as second lieutenant and assigned to the Sixteenth infantry. Ten years later he was promoted after passing an almost perfect examination to the rank of first lieutenant and assigned ts the Fifteenth Infantry. In August. Dart, be was proomted to a captaincy ia ths same Infantry and held that office all .through ths Spaulah-Amarlcan war. At the eioa of the war he was promoted for his efdoteucy as shown In ths war to a majority and ordered to a different fort, but la the same regiment. Again In Septem ber, 180. be was advanced to a lieutenant colonel, which rank he has held until the recent pro motion to oolonel M'CUNE LEAVES HOSPITAL (sal aiil-a Art Is new em ( Road to Recovery After a Lena- lllstw. Colonel William McCune. for the last twenty-five years with ths Buffalo Bill Wild West show, who has been at the Wle Memorial hospital for ths last two months. a.t-rage price of 3u cents. With a fiock la.Wng between ISO and IsO egg a year per bird, profits can be figured accordingly. It Is a great advantage to start within ship ping distance of a clt. where good prices for a really tip top article can be obtained with lit tie) trouble. "There are low districts whet mg farm ing Is so profitable as in the Pacific slope country. The climate U excellent, neither too wet nor too hot. Ch'.cks hatched In Slay and June mature splendidly for winter work. An abundance of good feed Is also grown, while the market In Spokane and other laiKe rltl-n around us Is as good as ran be desired. An average price of irom 36 to 40 cents can be obtained for high grade eggs, rollers brought us y cents a pound, live weight, last July and Aug.-st. Forty-four cents for a two-pound broiler Is a profitable figure during these months. The earlier the broiler the better the price. "We think it advisable, however, for the beginner to make merely a Bids Issus of the broiler buslnesa It Is the fine art of the poultry field snd requires much ex perience. The raising of young chirks Is difficult, especially In the early spring. Losses occur sometimes and It Is this ex tra risk that makes that department of the work too uncertain for the beginner. There Is more money In making a specialty of eggs." BIB- Profit Per Hen. . Conservative growers say they sverage from $1.50 to 11. 7B net per hen per year, though they report there are instances where better returns have been received. : he experience of Mrs. J. E. Maimer, R. F. IX No. 4, Spokane. Is Interesting In this connection. Mrs. Palmer started In 1906. Her statement follows: "beginning the year with 170 White Leg horn hens, I sold 22.079 eggs at an average of 3'i c nts a dozen, or tymi.Zi; hatched and reared 1.3 chicks, selling M0 broilers at 50 cents carh. or and had at the end of the year 540 pullets and 20 cockerels, which I could sell on the local market for $'. making a total of $1,632.37. It cost 1440.76 lor fe-d and 861.96 for 172H d;zer.s of e;gs for ha i hlng, making a t tal expense, b-(ld-o tunc aid labor, of SVB.Tl, aid havlnp me a net pre fit of f 1,0 9 68 for tha year's work." Twenty-four 8-months-old Plymouth Rock pullets, owned by George E. Peters of Sand Point, idaho, i reduce 1 14 eggs In De cember, 1910, and January, February and March, 1911. The pullets averaged more than twenty eegs each the Inst thirty days. Eugene W. Sims of Sand Point a!n claims a record for his flock of twenty-one hens, which laid 428 eggs last March, t Discussing some of the phases of the poul try Industry, In which he hss been engaged for more than f"rty years. Prof. Cyrus L. Smith of Spokane said: Start on Small Scale. "The cost Is small, provided that the prospective owner goes into the business ns he should, little by little, and expanding as his knowledge Is Increased by actual ex perience. A tiact of from one to five acres within reasonable distance of the maiket. twould be sufficient If the poultryman sim ply desires to have plenty of room for his hens. Either irrigated, sub-irrigated, dry farm or logged-off land is suitable. If the homeseeker ' desires to combine orcharding and berry growing with poultry raising, he should go Into a friut district near a town or city. If worked In connection with dairying or hog raising, he could start on cheaper land near a railroad. "The capital requirements range from 8900 to $1,500 to get well started. This would provide from 150 to 200 chickens. ' houses or hens, feed, ' first payment on a trar-.t of land, borse and . wagon, house and shed, milch cow and well and fences. Chicken farms have been started with less, while others have Invested more money. "Pee ks ping is a profitable adjunct to poultry raising, as well as to orcharding and truck gardening. The alfalfa fields furnish the bees with a sonce of material that results In a-lch, pure white heney, which always brings top prices. The out lay for bees and supplies I small and the returns good. Material lor the bees ti work on la easily found nine months In the year, and It is abundant enough to provide sufficient food during the winter months. The work Is light, pleasant and profitable." Do Yon Have the Riant Kind of Help! Foley Kidney Pills furnish you ths right kind of help to neutralize and re move ths poisons that cause backache, headache, nervousness and other kidney and bladder ailments." For sale by all druggists. left the hospital Monday evening and Is now on the road to recovery. MoCune In olden' days In Omaha when he was on the polios foroe here, bore ths name of "Billy the Boxer," but his re cent Illness has out down his fighting weight to almost the light weight olass. Tries to Die and End His Remorse Albert Bieser Seeks Death with Razor, Knife and a Rope 1$ Ar retted. Albert Rleaar Monday nad a desire to die. Tuesday ha had a headache. Several Ineffectual attempts at suicide. In which he used a. noose, a razor and a butcher knife, resulted In his arrest by the polios on ths chargs of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. . When arrested ths police found him In ths barn at his horns, 121 Wootworth Srs nus, looking for a place from which to sus pend the noose. Hs had drtven his family from ths house with a knlfs .after his wife bad taken a raaor away from tiro. Machinist's Hand is Mangled by a Fan Tiny Error CoU Workman Severe In jury in Accident at the Model Laundry, t Error of a tinr fraction of an nn in applying oil to a ventilating fan cost Bsrt Chapman, machinist at ths Vlodsl laun dry, all ths fingers on his rbrht hand. Chapman was working1 over ths fan which exhausts ths air la ths drying room when his hand stlpoed Into ths dneult at the rapidly whirling blades. The Injured man was removed to Joseph hoaptlal and 'placed under treat mesit by Dr. T. T. Harris, poltes snrgeon. CWwasi soar Was his whets rtgfet hmad. His horns is at 3624 Fort sUesc European Disease Threatens White Pine Bilster Rust, Imported with Nursery Stock, Endangers the Reforesta tion Project. The dangerous European disease of white pine (Cronartium riblcola), which was re cently Introduced Into America, was by the prompt and active co-operation of all rartles concerned, eradicated, as far as found; but there Is no evidence that all the cases have been found, nor Is there any means of preventing the Importation of mote diseased while pine nursery stock. Inn reforestation movement has created a market for a considerable amount of white pine stock and the producing' ca pacity of the American nurseries bas not kept pace with the demand. The prices for American tress ars higher than European prioes for ths same grade of stock, so that while whits pins stock has been Imported for years for ornamental grounds, it has been only during ths last five years that the importations havs been for reforesta tion. While the montetary first eost of Im ported stock Is less than that of American slock, the various Items of expense which necessarily are Incurred bring the two nearer together than would at first be thought, and the risks of Injury from the long trips and the danger of importing de structive Insects and fungus pests are so great that any but the most venturesome vhould be ueteired from importing such stock. There are many American nurserymen who regularly import their 1-year-old coni ferous seedlings and it Is safe to say that in the spring of IX 10.0u0.0ii0 coniferous seedlings were Imported into this country from European nurseries and that of these several millions were white pine. A few foresters familiar with European condi tions and appreciating the danger of Im porting the fungus, refuse 40 accept foreign white pine seedlings and transplants. The United estates Department of Agri culture investigated the outbreak in, 1900 of this disease and has just issued a report on the subject (Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 206), in which a full and detailed account of the fundus producing the dis ease is given, the public Is assured that there need be no undue apprehension, as the disease has been eradicated once and can be again should it be Imported, but advising that America should raise its own white pine seedlings snd that importations from affected countries be prohibited. With the Importation stopped the meth ods of prevention are briefly: Watch the rlbes (currants and gooseberries) during the first and second i seasons; . keep five leaved pines at Uast'&OO feVt from rlbes; remove and burn all diseased pine trees, making inspections of the trees late In the fall, removing diseased bushes and burn ing them; do this annually as long as any diseased trees or bushes are found. The preference of this parasite (cronar tium rlbicoia) for the five-leaved pines Is of special significance to America, since the species arc naturally present through the western, northern and northeastern forests and are planted mors or leas com monly throughput ths . country. Ths chances of great loss If this fugus should even approximate Its past record In Europe are very good. . Estimates of possible damags show that such losses would 'very soon sxceed the total value of all conifer-, ous stock ever Imported Into the country. The United States Department - of Agri culture should be Informed promptly and accurately of every Importation of white pine and rlbes. ' TELEGRAPH ORDERS COME Contestant Anxious to Get Book lovers Catalogues Now. USE TELEPHONE TO SECURE HELP Aothlnsi ta Rales, Repressed or Implied, that Forbids Getting; All Assistance Possible In Solv- Inn: Plrtnre Pussies. Telegraph orders were sent In to Ths Bee business office yesterday for the Book lovers' catalogues. One came from far over In Iowa asking that a helpful little booklet be reserved. The announcement in yesterday's paper to ths effect that only a few of the cata logues still remained served as the lm- , petuH. and the rush for these books has ; left but a few. Contestants who want the J catalogues should continue to send In or ders, so that the savance ornemay De made large enough to accomodate all. The present supply will probably give out be fore the day Is over. So send In your orders now that you may be supplied by the next consignment of catalogues. The Bee's cstalogus Is probably ths best aid to the solution of ths pussies, but there are other means than one of getting valuable assistance In Ths Bee's great Booklovers' game. Bockle Down to Work. Ths first way of solving , ths pictures that occurs to you Is to buckle right down to doing it yourself. That's a mighty good way. . But why not get other heads to puxzllng over the pictures especially those pictures that you yourself cannot solve to your satisfaction? Have you been around to the public li brary to ask the attendants there "What book does this picture represent? ' Have you called around to the book stores and asked what the employes there think of this picture, or that picture? There is nothing In the rules, expressed or Implied, that forbids you getting all the aid you want in solving the pictures. Go around to the department stores, take your pictures with you and talk with the men and women in charge of the book departments there. Tou will be surprised to find what a great interest they take in the contest and how glad they ars to help you. t'se Telephone to Call Stores. Use the telephone. If you wish, and call up the stores. The employes will answer your questions courteously and give you the best answers they can. 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"We have the finest fruits In ths world and ws will show all kinds next fall, Omaha Is much Interested In our state and will be mors so when they see our exhibit at the next land show, Dahlman Now Has a Policeman's Club Gets Billy from Panama Presented by a Former Omaha Fireman Just Returned. Mayor James C. Dahlman was presented with a policeman's '.'billy," made out of one of the first ties laid in the Panama railway construction Tuesday morning. The donor was A, A. Bchaefer of the firs department of Gargona. Bchaefer was formerly connected with the Omaha fire department. The wood Is coco bola, which tskes a high polish. A Panama quarter is Imbedded In the big end of the stick and a 10-cent piece In the handle. Tou have been thinking along one line ' Some one else probably will look at the pictures In an entirely dlffeient way. Crowds still continue to visit the stoics' and rooms where the grand prtirs are ex hibited. The Apperson nmnaKcmcnt re ported a large rush at their salesrooms, 1104 Fa mam street, yesterday. The first prize la a t,0J Apperson car. The second piU is a Kimball elghty-elitht-note player piano, valued at 7.V. . The third prize Is s looO lot In A. P. Tukey A Son s I U-r ad dition. The fourth prtxe Is a Col i. tibia Qrafonoia "Kegent" tind i0 worth of rec ords. The player-plano Is exhibited nt tin store of A. Hofpe. 1513 Douglas street. The Grafonola Is at the Columbia Phonograph company s agency. 1311-1313 Farnam street. Latey's Successor Named Wednesday Postmaster Thomas Will Have Mr. Woodard Give Out Name of Superintendent. ; The succevor to the late A. J. I.stey. as superintendent rf malls, at the post office, will be made public Wednesday mornlns by Postmaster H. F. Thomas, ac cording to an announcement made by him Tuesday. Mr. Therm:: will lcae the name of his appointee with Assistant Postmaster James Woodard. 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