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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1928)
TEE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION. The Slogan Pages are Yours; Aid in. Making them Helpful to i Your Wonderful City and Section SALEM DISTRICT INDU STRIES FSiiimttEa (DoimsesiiBttuve Yeanr.:- THE STATESMAN dedicates several pages each week in the interest of the fifty-two to a hundred basic industries of the Salem District. Letters and articles from people with vision are solicited. This is your section. Help make Salem grow. PROFIT IN THE POULTRY INDUSTRY FOR THOSE 10 HOW HOW ID WORK Commercial Poultry Breeding Is a Profession Very Much as Any Town Profession and With Proper Management It Can Be Made to Pay a Good ReturnThis Is the Statement of One of Our Biggest Men in the Industry Editor Statesman: The other day a man came into our office and skid, "I want to start in the chicken business. Is there any money in it?" That is a question I get every few days from people who come to our plant for information and to learn more of up to date pouUry raising. And I believe a very proper answer is, "Yes. if you know how to get it out. The poultry game is a pro fession very much a any town profession and with proper man agement it can be made to pay a good return." And there are within very few miles of us com mercial plants of considerable size whose owners are gaining a fairly comfortable income from commer cial eggs alone through hard work and intelligent application of tried poultry principles. -Many of my good friends have turned a rather cold shoulder on the poultry industry with the re mark that "more people go broke raising chickens than in any other business." Possibly they are right. Hut do they realize that more peo Pie enter the poultry business without a knowledge of cardinal principles, without necessary cap- 1W1 10 rarry tnem over to the pro fitable production and without a definite program, than enter al most any line of business or pro fession one can name. Under these conditions failure can be the only result and this would come- to the same individual en tering any other industry under similar conditions. Our poultry Industry must be considered as a definite business, calling for training, adaptability, willingness to work, long hours' when necessary, and capital to rarry over the first two years of the beginning. We must get away from the idea that because a man has kept 12 hens on a back lot and supplied the neighborhood with eggs he is capable of increas ing this number of hens to i200 or 12,000 and his profits in pro portion. Every time we Increase the flock we multiply the problems or management. The Problems most be met with definite knowl edge or disaster is sure to result. But I am not trying to throw cold water onto. the industry. I want oar people to realise that the raising 01 poultry , tails ror as much ability, thought, care, and professional management as any business in town. Glaring failures have been pointed out to me time and time again as indications of an unsound business. But this. is wrong. I can walk down the streets of Salem and point out to you where many a business firm went on the rocks. IsV business unsound? Look at the bank fail ures every year. Is banking un sound? jjV. Then if there is money in the business how should we go about it getting it out? One man told me he knew there was money in the business because he put a lot of it in himself. And by the way he was taking some out, too. be- cause he had been wise inthe way ne had invested.. Then first we must have capital to start right and carry over a two year" start ing period when there is no re turn that can be taken away from the business. Second, we must have the knowledge- to carry through these first two years and weather the problems encounter ed. Third, we must have the abil ity to get high production from. the pullets between September first and January first. Right there is where the failures fail. That pullet should have nearly paid for herself before' January first. A prominent poultryman who THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW that the Salem district is ideal fur the poultry and pet stock industry; that this is the greatest poultry country in the world; that there is now a fast increasuig interest in all the branches of this industry; that there is vast room for expansion here, iri connection with fruit and nut growing, dairying and live stock breeding; that many more large commercial poultry plants ought to be established here, making this the Petaluma of Oregon; that more intensified farm in" methods ought to be followed all over this district; that we should have less scratched over land, unless it is scratched over by poultry; that the invitation for more farmers who want to engage in diversified farming, with the poultry industry as a part of it. ought to be given broadcast throughout the country and throughout the world; that the warm welcome that is here and the splen did opportunities that are here ought to be much more has about 24 00 White Leghorn hens and pullets told me only a few days ago that returns from the Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers to whom he ships com mercial eggs averaged him about 32c per dozen last year while his cost of production including feed and labor was abou t 1 6 c per dozen. He is not quitting the poul try business. He gets high pul let production in the fall when the hens moult. By keeping about as j many pullets as hens he has a bal anced plant and gets good returns. And he has the figures to back this up. Our mild winters which permit an abundance of green feed the year round, our excellent market for eggs as provided by the Paci fic Poultry Producers, together with good soil and excellent cli matic condition makes this an ideal location for commercial poultrymen. And after all. the success of breeders, producers of baby chicks and all other branches of the industry is dependent en tirely upon the producer of com mercial eggs and his ability to produce them at a profit. His plant is the foundation for the whole poultry structure, ind when he fails the other branches which he supports will topple. For that reason it' is well that we should use care to properly instruct and help the man who enters the com mercial field that he may become a solid part of this important foun dation. The poultry industry has just passed through an especially good period in which many entered the work and made good returns un der favorable conditions. This past year has seen slightly differ ent conditions, not quite so favor able as to egg price or feed Drice and we have seen those who were lagging behind in management sell their flocks and glut the live poultry market. This is the nat ural result following an adranta geons progressive period during wnicn many have entered th field who may not have been so well prepared or adanted t it But the real poultryman still finds nis margin of profit and continues on over the ups and downs. He wins out year after year and is reaoy to prove that there is money m me poultry business which can be turned back with a fair mar gin of profit through good sound management. LLOYD A. LEE. Salem, Or., Feb. 29, 1928. (Mr. Lee is one of the blerest men in the poultry industry of the Salem district. He own and operates the Lloyd A. Lee Hatch ery and Poultry Farm, Salem, lo cated just outside the eastern sub- orbs Ed.) SflLEM OUGHT TO BE (VlflDE A LARGE RABBIT PRODUCING CENTER III CAN BE Five Rabbit Killing Houses In Los Angeles Kill 25 to 50 Thousand Rabbits a Week; One House Has Six Trucks Making Regular Trips As Far As 200 Miles Out Gathering Rabbits Fertilizer Has Large Use With Florists and Or ange and Lemon Growers; It Has Highest Chemical Anal ysis Sixty Per Cent of Furs Used in Making Fur Garments Are Rabbit Furs Large Number of Uses Made of the Products of the Rabbit Some h or 8 es waste their hay by pulling it out of the manger and trampling It under foot. This is caused sometimes by feeding two kinds of hay. one of which is es pecially palatable. In that case the hay may be fed so that the horse can eat the more palatable first. He will eat th nth k - - "j Editor Statesman: There is one branch of the small stock industry that is gain ing ground so rapidly that it is claiming the attention and partici pation of Borne of the best busi ness men. Especially is this true of California, which is Just now the center of this new industry. I refer to the raising of rabbits. That the humble little bunny can be the means of developing a new industry is scarcely realised by the majority of the public, but let us briefly look into the sub ject and .perhaps the facts here presented will prove our case. A great many people will re member the old Belgian hare craze that swept this country some -d or 30 years ago, when single ani mals sold for several hundred dol lars and everyone thought they were going to get rich raising Belgians. This did not last long; not because of any fault of the Belgian bare, but because the country was not ready to accept the rabbit as food 'and the fur situation was not as it Is today. The Belgian hare flurry was not with out its compensations, however. (Continued en pact 5.) PROVE Read this Letter CO- o ? ISOt Ve tee J X W!Jet;ole:i se& Vped- tot 'L V. ivftO et "to.; oT .: 5 to ft ,te te' to Hodgen-Brewster Wisconsin Milk Chick Mash tested witix otler feeds shows unquestionably UuU it produces best results. of fdisg. fom th. ''Siuos MKhf"d WUcon.i S,.f SIVELY WITH DOTVTE0T??-5S"!?iMElrTKD EXT EH -FEEDS EXCLUSIVELYTHIS t2 ' V1Uxa HODQEK-BgXWSTEi dAndeidc(I'nb10r VtlsEZT- 2 Elimin.Ui th. rrowth .d dekT,net. 4 uf bnd?M.5oitk 5 Promote rapid fe.tnerinr r. I" mto th rk.t rlier. Tr SaU By 5,S CASH STORE M ORE. Hs0EN BREwrTrR,foLIJNG CO. l ure. Otherwise, the good hay mar ha witihi v other is eaten. rwuMO, Oregon