MODEL BROODING HOUSES 



Several Styles of Practical Brood Houses Designed to Suit Poultry Plants of all Sizes — Informa- 

 tion on the Handling of Chicks in These Houses. 



WE STATE with emphasis that the broiler or mar- 

 ket poultry business is not a delusion and a 

 snare, as many, seem inclined to believe; it is 

 really a field of profitable and safe investment. 

 The fact that men who are wholly unsuited to the poultry 

 business in any of its branches have rushed pell-mell into 

 the "broiler business" and made total failures, is not proof 

 that there is no money in broilers. We know that there is 

 good money to be made in this branch of poultry raising; 

 this fact has been clearly demonstrated on hundreds of 

 successful chicken and duck farms. We firmly believe that 

 the. broiler business is destined to be one of the most profit- 

 able in the list. There is' something still to be learned 

 (there always will be), but the demand exists, the appli- 

 ances ^re at hand, and active brains are at work solving 

 the problem of success. 



A sample of why some people fail to succeed in the 

 broiler business came to our personal notice this fall. A 

 Hungarian from Chicago visited Quiney to buy one hun- 

 dred Barred Plymouth i Eoek laying iens. He wanted us 

 to agree to furnish him the hundred hens, and to contract 

 that by the tenth day after they reached their Chicago 

 quarters fifty of them would be laying. We told him that 

 it would be Impossible for us to fulfill such a contract. 

 This man, five months before he came to Quiney, had no 

 thought of going into the poultry business. At this time, 

 however, he had $2,500 invested, and was rapidly getting 

 afraid of his own shadow. The fact that hie thought that 

 any one could furnish him with one hundred hens in the 

 midst of the moltiug season, fifty of which would lay 

 within t«n days after being shipped 260 miles away, and 

 being placed in strange quarters, in strange hands, showed 

 how very little he knew about. the disposition and habits 

 of poultry. 



Another man wrote us ,in August, saying that he pro- 

 posed to engage in the broiler business on a large scale; that 

 he had ample capital and was confident of success. Then 

 he asked if it would not be a good scheme to buy a few 

 thousand fresh eggs at August prices and save them until 

 the following January and February for hatching purposes. 



In view of such cases as the above, and the well-known 

 fact that in ordinary mercantile pursuits a large per cent of 

 those who embark f aU to succeed, it is not at all surprising 

 that a good many of those who go hastily into the broiler 

 business meet with failure. If a person has not a natural 

 liking for poultry, if he is not pains-taking, economical and 

 persistent, he will not succeed in this business, not* to a sat- 

 isfactory extent. In this day and generation, when compe- 

 tition is so great, a man to succeed in almost any business 

 must stick to it- closely, employ the best appliance sand 

 wattt every point. 



We advise those who think of going into the broilpT 

 business, who have had little or no experience with poultry, 

 to go alow; to buy one or two incubators -or brooders and 

 learn how to use them with good results before buying a 



dozen. Spend a year in experimenting, if need be. This is 

 straight, honest advice. Tljere is no great hurry. You can 

 depend upon it that the demand for broilers will be as great 

 next year as it is now. America will never consume less 

 poultry and eggs than she is now consuming. We are sure 

 Ot this. Our people, in proportion to population, do hoi 

 today consume one-half as much of these foods as do the 

 European nations. Our population is rapidly increasing, 

 our cities are growing at a surprising rate — more and more 

 poultry and eggs will be demanded as the years go by. 



We insert here an extract from a report of our trip east, 

 made during the summer of 1898, touching on the broiler 

 business: "Mr. Thomas Allen, one of the proprietors of 

 a large poultry farm^ began as a boy years ago to buy com- 

 mon poultry and eggs for market, going from farm house to 

 farm house. He kept branching out until now he buys and 

 ships to the Philadelphia and New York markets $150,000 

 to $175,000 worth of poultry and eggs each year. He 'stated 

 that probably his business in this line will reach $185,000 this 

 year. He buys practically all of this amount within a radius 

 of twelve miles of Glassboro, so it may be seen that this is 

 quite a poultry raising section. He has men with wagons 

 who make regular trips out through the country. 



On July 6, which is late in the Reason, Mr. Allen was 

 paying ten cents per pound for young ducks and twenty-one 

 and twenty-two cents per pound for spring chickens — the 

 larger the better. "The duck market," said he, "is being 

 overstocked tnis year here in the east. The price for ducks 

 is now lower than I have ever known it to be, while the de- 

 mand for choice spring chickens at good prices has been 

 away beyond the supply. There is good money in spring 

 chickens at the present prices. ' ' 



"Capons pay well," continued Mr. Allen. "They bring 

 twenty cents a pound from Thanksgiving to April 1, then 

 range down to fifteen cents. I bought five hundred from 

 one man this spring. The largest pair I have bought this 

 season weighed twenty-eight founds, ahd I paid the owner 

 twenty cents' per pound for them. Capons should be mar- 

 keted when from seven to twelve months old. 



" I do all I can to encourage farmers and farmers ' wives 

 to raise better stock each year, to improve its size and ap- 

 pearance when dressed by using standard-bred males with 

 their flocks. They have done this until I am now able to 

 buy much choicer dressed poultry and to get top prices for 

 it. I buy it all dressed and aim at the top of the market. 

 As a matter of fact poultry is the best paying crop raised in 

 this section. There is no doubt that it pays better than any 

 oh er crop marketed. Many people have found this out and 

 others will. 



"One year I bought five hundred and seven tons of 

 dressed poultry, all within a radius of twelve miles of Glass- 

 boro. Farmers' wives raised the most of it. Now and then 

 you will nnd a farmer who turns in and helps, but the 

 women in this section raise most of the poultry. 



' ' I like Wyandottes best for early fries, for broiling, but 



