MONEY 



IN 



BROILERS AND SQUABS. 



CHAPTER I. 



A Small Beginning, and How the Broiler Industry Grew with the 

 Advance made in Improved Machinery, Improved Ideas, and 

 Improved Facilities Generally — Pointers Showing why so Many 

 Failures in the Pioneer Days. 



Some years ago a broiler boom struck the country; but, like 

 all unhealthy booms, the bottom soon dropped out of it. It was 

 \.>ell that it did. The failures paved the way for better success — 

 better appliances, better methods and a better market. 



Why the failures? Too many concerns heeded the false ad- 

 vice to locate on "town lots", and to " buy the eggs". The author- 

 ity of those days was not born of experience, and in consequence 

 a false light was presented. No wonder they failed. Crowded on 

 the rear of a town lot, and equipped with crude material and crude 

 tools, it is a wonder that they ever raised a chicken for market. But 

 the greatest loss came to those who were compelled to buy their 

 eggs for hatching. They gathered them from everywhere. 

 Teams would go among the farmers and buy what they had — all 

 varieties, shapes and conditions. The majority of these eggs were 

 more or less chilled. The only plants that made a success were 

 those which either kept their own breeding stock, or had some egg 

 farm supply them direct. 



Hammonton deserves the distinction of being the birthplace 

 of the broiler industry. She laid the foundation, and her many 

 failures have been the object lessons from which more careful and 

 better equipped parties in other parts of the country profited. The 

 writer came to Hammonton when a score or more broiler plants 

 were in operation. To-day the number is considerably less, but the 

 quality has greatly improved. 



What did Hammonton's failures teach? 



First. We must have one breed or one systematic cross, anc 

 never rely upon eggs purchased just any and everywhere. 



Second. The "town lot" scheme is a dead failure. 



