RAISING POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1878, Page 3

RAISING POULTRY.

"Does it pay to raise poultry for market ?"(says a correspondent of the Prairiß Farmer.) Of course it does ; ; that is, if you understand the busi- ; ness. I speak fiom experience, for I \ have been in the business nine years. ; I blundered a good deal at first, but I have made a success of it. Last year I raised over two thousand chickens for market, and the result was very gratifying from a pecuniary point. There is no secret apout it; any fawner's wife or daughter can do what Shave done. It don't pay to keeptb.elittle, old fashioned barn-yard fowl ; it costs noarly as much to raise a four pov ';-.'. mongrel as it does to raise a tea .and Brahma ; and it don't pay to A.i ■■1* .ckens shift for themselves Iy can pick up, Iful of grain occag wherever they 3asy prey for verf the improved somfortable quarproper food and for it, they will ocket. If you do pure blood fowls tell you how to t stock of common :pense. Send to y breeder and get large breeds ; no combed and not o the "standard," orous, and large -ou want. Mato >nof your largest! common hens. The chickens raised , from this cross will be half breodtf, and, at maturity, will weigh from two to four pounds each more thau the common variety ; you can figure for yourself and see whether it would pay or not.