Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — PROFIT IN POULTRY. [ARTICLE]

PROFIT IN POULTRY.

Farmer Keeps Accounts and Find* Biggest Money in the Chickens. One farmer down east, in order to find out where the leaks and where the gains were, kept an exact account with every department of his farm. He discovered that he was losing money on his beef cattle, that hogs just paid for themselves, that sheep were good if his lambs came early, and that the poultry made the largest per cent of profit of any feature of his farm. The result was that he quit fooling with beef and hogs and put more money and time into poultry. The increased prosperity on that farm was so marked that he wrote out for publication his experience. Because a hen is small and a steer Is big is a child’s reason for having contempt for the former and respect for the latter, says Farmers’ Voice. One of the biggest money makers in the world is the street car business, which depends entirely upon its income for flve-cent sales. A stick of chewing gum costs but a penny, yet just recently a syndicate was organized with over a million capital to make "trust chewing gum.” It will pay the farmer and his wife to consider the money there may be made in poultry if wisely directed. Organize the hen on a business basis; put up new, clean, airy quarters; get proper egg-making feeds; learn the value of cleanliness, light, warmth and sunshine in winter; get a good incubator and control your hatches so that you will have winter layers, broilers, etc., when they are most profitable. You will soon learn that for the money invested and labor required, the,hen is the most economical and highly efficient converter of rough feeds into money you have ever tried.