Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1904 — Big Profits In Poultry. [ARTICLE]
Big Profits In Poultry.
According to the more or less, especially less, veracious press correspondent at Winamao,'Coarles Dallas Jones, of Pulaski oounty, was told by his friends there was money in raising and selling ohiokena and eggs. He deoided to follow theif advice and invested SIUO in 200 Plymouth Rooks. The ohiefcen houses and other material cost Jones $75 more. In four months he has paid out SSO for feed, wood and a stove. The oold weather froze 110 chickens and some one stole the rest except one hen, .whioh had just laid an egg. Jones is trying to figure out just what that egg oost him aud what it iB worth in cash. He is nndeoided what to do, whether to eat the egg or to send it t<? the St. Louis fair.
