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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUS TRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION. You Are Invited to Come to the Salem District and Engage in Poultry Industry LEE HATCHERY KITTING TOWARDS THE HALF M1LLEDN MARK 119 BABY CHICKS Will Go Beyond 400,000 Mark During the Present Year One of the Most Up to Date and Complete Hatching Plants and Breeding and Mating Farms in This Country Specializing on the Best Strains of the Standard Breeds BABY CHICKS AND HATCHING KGGS Feartera VriU from parent Mtk" orriciAi.LT tcstSjD and offtci- ALX.Y Af raOVED. Oar prieM ar in terd with our high quality. Oar tTm 34 pace cataiocua tc21s why. CUSTOM HATCHING Ijit iion w eoslom baVktd 150,900 baby chicks. V kaow ho to ret bet re0iU with aur 47,000 aCC Smith incubators. Let axperta do your LEE'S HATCHERY Phono 133T2 f fT"jU2& : l b ; .r-j-TT-T i r Mil"' ' 1 Some businesses make a mush room growth in a shorjL period of time at the expense of quality, but not so with the Lloyd A. Lee Hatchery and Poultry Farm a mile and a half east of the Salem city limits on the Asylum road. Mr. Lee started In the poultry business here about six and a half years ago with a small, conservative plant, and now he has one of the largest individual hatcheries in the state of Oregon and ha be come famous among poultrymen of the state as a producer of strictly high grade baby chicks. His modern poultry plant now consists of the original five acres which is now occupied by his hatchery and brooder houses, and Z " I 'V I y . ft . .Mi' J.', . Lloyd A. Lee a half mile farther east Is his new 25-acre breeding farm which has a capacity of about 2500 hens. It Is considered one of the best breeding farms for all kinds of poultry in the northwest. One who may hare visited this modern hatchery and poultry breeding farm in the making a year ago, and would favor the place with a return vVsit now, would quickly see that the past season has been a most profitable and successful one for Mr. Lee. Nowhere in Oregon or Washington in any poultry district has there been auch business-like expansion. On the five acre tract Mr. Lee has made most of his improve ments during the past year. He has moved his former home over on the northwest corner 'of the tract and remodeled, it, making a cozy home for his expert hatch eryman, H. A. Armstrong. On the old residence site facing the highway, Mr. Lee has erected a modern eight room two story house of the Dutch colonial type with full basement, furnace, bath on both 'floors, fireplace and all modern built-ins and convenien 4 Tt V. y. t CAPITAL CITY BEDDING CO. 3030 Pacific Highway North PHONE 19 Phone or Write We Will Call First Class Renovating ces. Two large brick columns top ped with electric lights marks the entrance to the yard in front of the residence. i 20.O00 Chick Capacity More improvements have been added to the tile Incubator house which houses three mammoth forced air-draft Smith Incubator with a combined capacity of 141. 000 eggs. The main office of the establishment is also in. one wing of this house. The sorting and packing rooms, which are all steam heated, occupy another wing of the house. More brooder bouses have been added lately. The main brooder house U 20 by 120 feet and is equipped with a modern hot water system. Other houses are being added to give a capacity of about 20,000 chicks. Up to Pate This great brooder house has concrete yards or runs on either side so that the chicka may run out in the open and get the bene fit of the direct sunshine and still not come in contact with contam inated soil. Across the driveway .'from the Incubator house is the warehouse and garage which Is a two story building equipped with elevator and other conveniences. This building also houses a mod ern chemical fire engine. Established on new rolling ground about half a mile east of t'ue home place is the 25 acre breeding farm where great care has been taken in platting and laying oat a modern poultry plant with its special mating, trapnest ing and brooderonses made easy of access by graveled driveways. Clean eoil, new 'buildings, stock from the best known breeders, ex pert care and management are assets that will make this one of the outstanding plants of the northwest. Some of the best stock in the country has been pur chased and will be used here. Modern Methods There are four trapnested breeding houses in this new farm. Each house is 20 by 110 feet and is divided into five compartments of 20 by -20 each for 100 fowls and a 20 by 10 feeding room. The capacity is 500 fowls to each of these large breeding house, which are also equipped with 150 foot runs on each side ot the houses. There is a row of six modern special mating houses with dou ble yards which, house special Dens of Jersey Giants, Buff Or pingtons. R. I. Reds, Barred MORLEY'S Boys and Girls' Shop Infants and Children's Ready-to-Wear 227 North High kmm- W&w " aw r j Interior of one of the three mammoth 47,000 egg fiulth incubators at tuttchiug time. Note the egg racks on each silr and huttiiery compartments below. Uyod.A. Lee Hatchery and Poultry Ilreetling f'arms. Rocks, Black Minorcas, Dark and Light Brown Leghorns, and White Wyandottes of the best strains ob tainable, bred for standard type and egg laying qualities. There is also a fine pumping plant and water system on this new farm, each of the four, big breeding houses being equipped with auto matic water fountains, trapnests and litter carriers.' A cozy resi dence and large barn and garage complete the present improre menU on this 25 acre breeding and exhibition farm. Steady Growth Mr. Lee established his poultry business in the Willamette ralley in 1921 and has enjoyed a steady and rapid growth until now he has one of the largest and beat equipped hatching plants in the state. The incubator capacity the first season was 6000. This was later increased to 12,000, then to 60,000, then 94,000, and now he has a capacity of 141,000 eggs. During this season less space is being used for custom hatching in order to care for the increased de mand for baby chick. Last year 225,000 baby chicks were hatched for sale and 150,000 more hatch ed for farmers of the ralley. This year Mr. Lee will hatch $00,000 for selling and more than 100,000 custom hatch. ' THE BEST BROODER FUEL Is Gasco Briquets Priced $17.50 Per Ton FOB Our Bunkers No Ashes Clean Burning: They're All Heat HILLMAN FUEL COMPANY Phone 1855 Yard Office 1405 Broadway J . ' . av n i i Starred Right Mr. Lee began his work with poultry in 1916 in one of the lar gest commercial plants at Peta lutna. Cal., where hatching, brood ing, and egg production were car ried on under ideal conditions on a large scale. His personal con tact while there with men like Walter Hogan, H. A. Oeorge and others gave him a background for hie later, work with J. A. Hanson of Corvallis, Ore., D. Tancred, Kent, Washington, and others throughout the northwest. Mr. Lee is a member of the Ore gon Poultrymen's association, the Pacific Cooperative Poultry Pro ducers and the Oregon branch of the International Baby Chick as sociation. Among the breeds of poultry in which this plant specializes are White. Brown and Buff Leghorns, White and Elack Minorcas, Bar red and White Plymouth Rocks, Anconas. Light Brahmas, JeTsey Black Giants, Rhode Island Reds, White Wyandottes, and Buff and White Orpingtons. Mr. Lee now has 10 persons in his employ and ft i Produced in Modern Smith Incubators of the Very Latest Design A Guarantee of Vigorous, Sturdy Chicks Fourteen Varieties From -B.W.D. tested stock in accord with interstate' quarantine regulations. Send for 24 page, illustrated catalogue. Book orders at once many dates already filled. X 100 Live Delivery Guaranteed Shipped Prepaid Lloyd A. Lee Hatchery and Poultry Breeding Farm Route 6, Box 113-R is already laying plans for future -expansion of his plant during thai coming year. Considerable progress has been made during the piut seven or, eight years in growing and mar. keting Oregon vegetables. This development c&a best be summar ized by citing the fact that where aa in 1920 bpt 1S5 cars of vege tables were shipped from the state, worth less than $100,000, a total of 2.946 cars rolled ia 1926 worth approximately $1,500, 000. This increase has coma about rather gradually, the fig ures showing a moderately slow ascending curve in which tha peak total was reached in 1926. Added to the above mentioned volume of business is that of the cannery pack of vegetables which in eight years has increased from slightly in excess of 100.000 cases worth approximately $300,000 to over 400,000 cases having the approximate value of $1,200,000. the peak total being reached in 1926 with over 463,000 cases. No figures are available show, lng the development of the busi ness of local city marketing, which however, ha sbown a healthy in crease dne to the gradual growth of cities all over-the state. Six Leading: Varieties BhI .Stock Prices (SCOOSS SAXEM CHXCKESXES Fnooa 400 Salami, Or. 4 V. Cottafa Straa BABY CHICKS FOR 1928 Officially Tested ' Officially Approved Salem, Oregon DM VEGETABLE uss