Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Mr. Cosgrove is right in saying that I 
would not make a success with chickens. 
I have made some success in shooting 
them in my garden, and have succeeded 
in having other people keep their hens 
home. But Mr. Cosgrove does not answer 
my question. He had an 80-acre farm 
that fed his family, and the hens made 
him and his wife a rather slim income 
It seems to me that an 80-acre farm 
should have produced the grain needed. 
It certainly would down here. I have a 
neighbor who owns a 2.1-acre place. k< eps 
two mules and a horse and rides in a 
touring car. lie raises some chickens. I 
believe, and probably sells some. lie 
certainly sells milk and cucumbers and 
cantaloupes and cabbage and potatoes 
and sweet potatoes, and the income from 
Mr. Cosgrove’s hens would hardly keep 
his car in order. Right near by him a 
city man bought a large lot. about three 
acres. Hi- built a flue house and a long 
line of chicken houses and yards, and 
wont into (hi 1 chicken and egg business. 
He lasted two years and went back to 
the city. II is place was sold for $7,500, 
! and the purchaser told me that out of this 
the chicken man got 875. lie tried 0* 
make a living out of chickens, and buy¬ 
ing all the feed, and lost his investment. 
Mr. ( o.-grove dill not make a living out 
of the chickens, and I have never found 
anyone who did where he sold on the 
general market and bought all his feed. 
That chickens and other poultry can add 
to the proiits of a farm I have no doubt, 
but the place for the poultry is not a 
poultry place entirely, but a part of the 
farm stock, the waste grain about tin 
barn helping out very much in decreasing 
the cost, and the cows also helping. Rut 
buying all the food on the retail market 
make? a great hole in the receipts. 
I have a friend who owns one of the 
finest farms in Maryland, and his wife 
owns another, The scarcity of labor 
caused him to quit farming, and he rented 
his farm, as his wife also did. Ho bought 
a little place of an acre or two near town 
and went to raising chickens and had 
great success as far as production was 
concerned. The next year he deter¬ 
mined to keep books accurately. lie and 
his sons devoted their entire time to the 
poultry, and had no mishap, but sold 
broilers and eggs for good prices. At the 
end of the year they balanced the bonks 
and found that each of them had worked 
through the year for 87..70 a month. lie 
declared that there was no need for his 
working for such wages, and he sold the 
place and chickens and built him a house 
in town. I have for years had letters 
from city men of small means, saying 
that they wanted to move to the country 
and buy a small place and go into the 
poultry and egg business. They had fig¬ 
ured out on paper a fortune in poultry. 
I could see only failure and the loss of 
their savings, and have as a rule tried to 
discourage their plans and to persuade 
them if they came to the country not to 
depoud on poultry alone. Some took my 
advice and many did not, and made a 
failure. The farm where general farming 
is done and where the chickens can. at 
least part of the season, have a wide 
range on wild feed, and where no feed is 
bought, is the place for hens, and the 
place where they can show a real profit. 
Mr. Cosgrove’s $50 to $1,000 would not 
go far in the support of a family in these 
days, and the cost of feed has outrun the 
increased price for eggs and chickens. 
The breeder of fancy fowls who has 
made a reputation is not in the class I 
mentioned. 
But of the garden. The bloom in the 
shrubbery now is of the crape myrtle, 
Althrna and Buddleia asiatica: the double 
rose Althea is now making quite a show, 
looking like a bush of great pink roses. 
The abundant moisture and heat have 
been greatly enjoyed by the kudzu. I have 
had a fight to keep the ground runners 
off. but the climbing has been let alone, 
and it has piled up on top of my wood 
and coal house (not much coal or wood 
in it new) and threatens to go over into 
the garden on the other side. It will be 
great for green soiling of cows or for 
pasture if you let it run and take pos¬ 
session of the land, as it surely will if 
let grow as it likes. There has been a 
great deal of peach rot. \v. f. massey. 
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