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DETAILS OF A POULTRY PARTNERSHIP. 
I desire to start in the poultry business 
in the Spring. I have the farm and have 
raised a considerable lot of poultry in the 
last eight years, and understand it in all 
the branches, not book learning, but prac¬ 
tical experiences, and know 1 can make a 
success. A good friend of mine wants me 
to start in the business on my farm. How 
should I bargain, or what kind of an agree¬ 
ment, would you consider fair to both? I 
will do all the labor, building (but not 
furnish the lumber), the care and raising 
of the stock. The friend would not be 
around at all. I would also farm and 
raise some grain. IIow would you do? 
Should my friend furnish all the money, 
for material, in buildings, incubators, anv 
of the eggs to start to hatch, and help pay 
the feed the first year, and how much of 
it? Should he then have one-half the entire 
income then from the plant, or am I asking 
too much? l. l. R. 
As your friend and yourself are going 
into this proposition, not as partners in 
capital and labor on equal terms, but 
with one furnishing the capital and the 
other turning it to advantage for him, 
I believe it only fail to him to treat 
the money he puts into material for 
buildings, stock, fixtures as money in¬ 
vested, and on which the business should 
pay a specified interest. Suppose this 
capital amounts to $1000; then it should 
bring him in from two per cent to six 
per cent interest at the end of the year 
just as if it were invested in stocks or a 
mortgage. So no matter what happens 
he is entitled to $60 clear, let us say. 
Out of this will have to come his rent 
for the use of your land to put his 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
reoruary 
proper. Access thereto is obtained bv means 
of elevated runways and these runwavs 
are provided at the top with eight-inch 
boards set on edges to prevent the litter 
from being scatched down. Thus the fowls 
not only have 2,000 square feet of board 
floor mixed with litter over which to roam, 
but 2,000 square feet of mother earth as 
well. The advantages of this arrangement 
are manifest. Among other considerations 
no dust baths are required for that flock. 
But a house built thus, to be successful, 
must have a very light floor and the cover¬ 
ing of west end, the back and the east end. 
must extend to the level of the ground 
and be banked in order to prevent dan¬ 
gerous drafts upon the fowls when under¬ 
neath _ the floor. The front, or south side, 
of this ground floor is open to sun and 
rain, being inclosed by two-inch wire net¬ 
ting. The banking turns the water awav 
from three sides, and the south side or 
front should slope away from the building 
in order to accomplish the same result 
The Comings, I believe, build their houses 
five feet above ground and support them 
upon posts. The greater height is doubt¬ 
less an advantage in this respect; one may 
move around under the house, when neces¬ 
sary, with greater comfort. The idea does 
not seem to be to use this ground floor for 
a scratching shed, as such, although the 
fowls certainly do excavate some pretty 
large and deep holes in its surface. If 
proper attention is paid to drainage the 
ground floor will be drv at all times, 
even dusty and will not freeze in Winter 
To keep it pure it should be raked out 
about twice a year, and air-slaked lime or 
some other good disinfectant plentifully 
scattered over it. a k m 
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MRS. HOUDAN AND HER FAMILY. Fir,. 02. 
buildings and yards on, say $10, which 
will leave him $50 guaranteed. 1 think 
your friend should buy everything that 
is. needed to start with and to work 
with, building material incubators, 
brooders or material for making them 
out of, and whatever else you need. As 
to jour labor in building houses and 
coops, that ought to be a part of his in¬ 
vestment to be either paid you in cash 
or at any rale have a fixed value of $200 
for example. Now, if he pays you in 
cash, add this to the $1,000 he has al¬ 
ready invested, making $72 on $1200, 
the land rent being subtracted. If he 
does not pay in cash, you are furnishing 
$200 capital yourself and are entitled to 
the interest on it like him. Now this 
brings us down to the point where we 
are doing business and sharing the 
profits. We have two things to con¬ 
sider, the cost of feed and the cost of 
labor. I consider them with hens of 
about equal value, so I think your friend 
should furnish the feed and you do all 
the necessary work or pay for having it 
done, dividing the profits equally after 
paying all expenses, including the inter¬ 
est on capital invested as figured above. 
In handling 200 hens I figure that it 
costs me about 60 cents a day to feed 
them; the time I spend in caring for 
them, feeding, watering, cleaning houses 
and again in handling their eggs, dress¬ 
ing them for market, and everything 
else that goes with it amounts to three 
hours a day, which figured at 20 cents 
an hour, costs 60 cents a day more, and 
yon cannot get any man to care for hens 
properly at less than $2 a day. If you 
raise or furnish any feed off the 
place charge your friend a fair market 
price for it as his part of the running 
expenses. Again in regard to repairs on 
buildings, coops, etc., let him furnish 
the cost of material and you the cost of 
labor. r. b. 
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a lot of the cane that had frozen in 
windrows and soured, was rejectel by 
mills; the price of raw sugar, however, 
be just as high, if not higher, as 
stocks were depleted, and the trust 
surely endeavor to balance matters 
get what it’s worth. v. 
New Orleans, La. 
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