Plan No. 435. A Farmer’s Wife and Her Chickens
The wife of a Nebraska farmer, who knew how to raise chickens with profit, made this industry pay by adhering to a few simple rules.
First, she weeded out all the “scrub” poultry on the place, and kept only the best specimens of the best breeds, as they eat no more than common stock, and bring much better returns.
Then she insisted on keeping her poultry yard absolutely clean, free from vermin and rats, and giving the fowls proper food in sufficient quantity to keep them in good condition.
She raised chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys, and, owing to her excellent methods of caring for them, had very little bad luck with them.
She made one or two trips to the city, secured enough permanent patrons to take all her surplus products off her hands the year round, at prices considerably in advance of regular market quotations, and sent her eggs, butter, young chickens and other fowls by parcel post, and cleared over $200 every season, with but little extra labor or expense. And $200 is quite a sum to a country woman, especially if she earns it herself and saves it all.