8 California Poultry Practice 



In California Grains Sprout Without Artificial Heat. — The oat 



sprouter that must be bought, or made, to sprout oats in the cellar is 

 advertised in all poultry journals, and varies in prices from a few dollars 

 to fifty. Then the cellar room must be provided and room to store the 

 oats. Then, too, there is a lamp to fill and trim, oil to buy, and last 

 but not least, is the danger from the lamp. Besides this there is the 

 labor, from all of which we are relieved by our mild climate. 



Health. — But aside from all these things the greatest advantage we 

 have over other States is the healthfulness of the occupation. Even 

 delicate women who have never been able to do outdoor work of any 

 kind, will, after being in California la short time, undertake to do the 

 work of a poultry ranch here. This is certainly one advantage we are 

 proud of and justly so, because poultry raising is essentially a woman's 

 business. Some of the largest poultry ranches in the State are owned 

 and run by women who do practically all their own work. 



No Danger of Overdoing. — There are no indications at present that 

 the poultry business will ever be overdone in this State. The people 

 are flocking in and as neighborhoods get more thickly settled more 

 stringent sanitary laws will be imposed on those who keep poultry 

 inside city limits, and this will force out large numbers who are too 

 indifferent and careless to obey the law, and the poultry and egg supply 

 will have to be produced in the small country places. 



