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THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



POULTRY AT MAYWOOD COLONY. 



Maywood colony continues its onward march to the 

 front as one of the most productive regions of Cali- 

 fornia. There are numberless ways to make money 

 there, and not the least profitable by any means is the 

 raising of poultry. 



For years Corning has enjoyed the distinction of 



Another View of the Outlet of Flathead Lake. 



being the biggest turkey shipping point in California. 

 In the foothills, west of Corning, turkeys are raised in 

 herds of from 500 to 2,500. At Maywood the turkey 

 raisers have from 500 to 1,000. At Thanksgiving and 

 Christmas time carloads of dressed turkeys leave there. 

 For years the price per pound has ranged from 20 to 30 

 cents. The turkey is a seven month crop, and is counted 

 immensely profitable. 



Maywood is rapidly coming to the front as one of 

 the leading egg shipping stations in California. Prac- 

 tically every colonist carries from 50 to 500 -hens, and 

 they report a yearly profit of from $1 to $1.25 per hen. 



A hen is an egg mill. You can grind out of her 

 just what you put into her. Feed her food for eggs and 

 she will turn out eggs for food. She does more. She 

 becomes a fertilizer factory; also a soil cultivator. 

 And she is a high-grade scavenger, as well as a destroyer 

 of tree and plant pests. She is especially the fruit 

 man's friend. Ten hundred hens in ten acres of trees 

 will increase the crop from 10 to 25 per cent. They will 

 consume the growing grass and weeds which sap the 

 soil and mar the looks of the land. They will form a 

 fine soil mulch under and about the trees which will 

 arrest the evaporation of moisture. Thev will destroy 

 bugs, grubs and caterpillars, which otherwise would prey 

 upon the leaf, bark and root of the orchard. 



At Mavwood Colony a White Leghorn hen, fairly 

 treated, will lay an average of thirteen dozen eggs a 

 year. The review of the market at this place during the 

 three years past shows the average selling price of eggs 

 to have been 22 cents a dozen. This makes the average 

 annual gross earnings of a hen $2.76. Inquiry among 

 poultry people here show the average annual cost of 

 caring for a hen to be $1.50. These figures show a net 

 credit to the hen of $1.26. For the sake of safety let's 

 set aside the odd 26 cents, and we have a net profit of 



$1 per hen. A hen produces this profit for two years. 

 She is then ready to be fattened and to go into the 

 kettle with dumplings. For this purpose she brings 

 you 50 cents more, and gets off your expense account, 

 having left you, by her presence, better off to the tune 

 of $2.50. 



In some sections of California hens are run at the 

 rate of 200 to the acre. But at Maywood Colony the 

 rule is 100 hens to the acre, or 1,000 hens on a ten- 

 acre lot. This plan allows ample room and results in 

 better returns. 



The climatic conditions of Maywood Colony are 

 just what suits the hen. Neither the cholera of the 

 East nor the roup of the coast regions are factors to be 

 figured with. Some vermin exists, but the proper con- 

 struction of houses reduces this trouble to the minimum. 



Food for the hen is easily and cheaply provided 

 here. There is an abundance of wild or natural green 

 grasses for seven months in the year. Alfalfa is avail- 

 able during the other five months. The ordinary wind- 

 mill raises water enough to raise a patch of alfalfa 

 sufficient in size for from 500 to 1,000 hens. Maywood 

 is surrounded by big wheat farms. You can buy direct 

 from the farmer, if desired, getting your wheat at first 

 cost. The other articles which enter into a balanced 

 ration for the hen can be bought as cheaply here as 

 elsewhere. 



At Maywood there is a poultry association, well 

 organized and conducted, which handles the egg crop 

 so as to get the most out of it. Eggs are cleaned and 

 graded before shipment, so that top prices are realized. 

 Membership in this association costs $1 and the annual 

 dues are $1. 



THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST COUNTRY. 



One of the most attractive pamphlets issued in re- 

 cent months is that published by the Chicago. Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul railway exploiting the northwestern states and 

 the region into which the road is building. The material 

 is compiled bv Mr. Charles S. Young, in charge of the 

 advertising, and fills a booklet of fifty-odd pages, each 

 one of which contains one or more illustrations. Seattle 

 and Tacoma are the objective points of the extension 

 and considerable space is devoted to the opportunities to 

 be had in those cities. The views are from cities in 

 Montana, Idaho, Oregon. Washington, Alaska and Brit- 

 ish Columbia and Rainier National Park. The pamph- 

 let is truly a work of art. 



The secretary of the interior has withdrawn from any 

 form of disposition whatever under the public land laws 

 the following described lands, for use in connection with 

 the North Platte irrigation project, Nebraska-Wyoming: 



Sixth Principal Meridian, Nebraska. 



T. 23 North, R. 55 W., NW. '/J Sec. 3, NW. ^ Sec. 17, 

 SE. 14 and NE. i^ Sec. 24. 



T. 24 N., R. 56 W.. N. Y 2 NW. % Sec. 32. 



T. 24 N., R. 57 W.. NW. Y 4 Sec. 27. 



T. 25 N., R. 57 W., N. y 2 NE. %. Sec. 31, and N. Y 2 

 NE. y 4 Sec. 32. 



T. 24 N., R. 58 W., All Sec. 23. 



These lands were segregated subject only to the 

 Homestead Act in October, 1906. but it has since been 

 found that they will be required for construction pur- 

 poses. 



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