12 pouLTßy*ne\gß A LIVING FROM THE MODERATE SIZED FLOCK OF POULTRY GOLDEN SEABRIGHT BANTAMS COPYRIGHT, 1916. Golden Seabright Bantams are es- I sentially an ornamental breed, and have no utility qualities to recommend tliem, us both eggs and carcasses are too small for commercial purposes. Sir John Seabright, an Englishman, spent a lifetime originating and per fecting the breed. Later, in 1820, a club was formed for their advance ment. and from that time began the radical changes which resulted in the adoption of positive breed, shape and color of legs and plumage. The mature small Seabrights should not exceed twenty-six ounces in weight and females twenty-two ounces. They have small, llrm rose combs, short blue legs, drooping wings, well-spread fan tail and an alert upright carriage. The male must be "hen feathered," that is, the tail is devoid of curving The One-Man Farm a Profit able Occupation, but Not a Lazy Man's Job A Modest Beginning, Then Consistent, Steady Growth Is Best By Harry R. Lewis Head of Department of Poultry Hus bandry, N. J. Experiment Stations. COPYRIGHT, 191 G. Mr. Lewis docs not discourage the man whose capital is small, tout wisely advises liim to first acquire experience before investing in a farm of his own. Then, with from two to ten acres of land, and from three to five thousand dollars, he may accomplish what the subject of this article did. THE moderate-sized poultry flock is probably the most satisfactory and profitable, for it requires the lime of but one man, the owner, and does not necessitate the hiring of addi tional labor, which means greater ex pense and usually less efficiency. The experiences of hundreds of poultry men keeping from 500 to 1,500 birds on limited acreage is proof enough of the possibilities open to one who has a small amount of capital and a will ingness to begin in a correspondingly small way, and after a few years' ex perience develop a one-man plant which will pay him a definite weekly salary and provide a most enjoyable occupation. The amateur must n(jt expect this success to come without careful and well planned preliminary work, however, which shall aim to wards a moderate sized flock, with commercial egg production the pri mary source of income. The following is a summarized rec ord of the achievements of one poul tryman. who iirmly believed in the possibilities of a one-man flock, and was willing to begin with 300 birds and take two years to develop in, his project the results shown below. His beginning was made at the age of 27 years, after he had become dissatisfied with clerical positions In the city. Just before starting his farm he devoted twelve weeks during the winter to a short course in poultry husbandry at one of our Eastern Agricultural Col leges. The first year he ran behind financially S3OO, and the second year just broke even, while the third year he cleared SSOO. Since that time for the last two years he has cleared an average of $1,500 each year net. His wife is as interested In the chickens as lie, and Is an important factor in the success of such a farm. Much of the care of chicks, the packing of eggs, and the record keeping can be profit ably left in her hands. During the year this farm kept an average of 1,000 fowls, made up of 00 pullets and 400 yearling hens, the latter being mated for breeding pur poses. The farm proper contains two acres, one of which is devoted to the home and a house garden, while on the other are locate.d the laying houses, three in number. On account of the necessity for raising a consid erable number of pullets each year, three acres adjoining the poultry farm proper is leased for a term of ten years, planted in peach trees, and used for range for the growing stock, mak ing a total of five acres devoted to the poultry work. A mammoth incubator of 200-egg capacity is located in the cellar of the house, and the chicks are brooded by coal burning brooder stoves in portable colonyhouses on the ...rHnge. These are four in number, and are ÜBed for maturing the young stock after the heaters are removed. As a whole the arrangement >vorks out very efficiently, and could profitably be copied by others wishing to carry on a similar line of business. If any changes were to be made it would be « desirable, If possible, to secure more 1 land. Ten acres might be considered about the most efficient area, although the farm plan can be modified to meet larger or small locations. Too much land should not be used, however, as Genuine Barron strain of a. r. \v leghorns. This is only the second gen eration from the imported stock. We won at AUentown In hot competition Won at Harrlsburg this year first pen Stock, eggs and baby chicks for sale in season. LOUIS LIBRANDI S3 K. High St., MUWllrtonn, l>a. SATURDAY FINING, sickle feathers which denote the male in other fowls, and the feathers of the neck hackle and saddle are not pointed as in other cocks, hut rounded exactly like the hens. This hen feathering is the distinguishing feature of the Sea bright Bantam. The plumage is de scribed as golden bay, each feature distinctly outlined with a narrow edge of glossy black. Seabrights are adaptable to very small quarters; and in fact do much better under such conditions than when given considerable rauge. Their eggs hatch well, and the chicks ma ture rapidly. In this and other varie ties of bantams there are many in stances recorded of pullets coming to maturity and rearing a breed of their own in the Fall of the same year in which they Were hatched. the tendency is then for the work to be too diversified, requiring more than the labor of the owner. The following figures will show what is being done on such a farm, lo cated in New Jersey, within 35 miles of New York City. The Income for the fiscal year closing November 1, 1915, was approximately as follows: Market eggs, !i,500 doz. at 35c. .$3,325.00 Hatching eggs, 300 doz. at 80c. . 240.00 Broilers sold at 1 lb. wt. for 48c <700) 336.00 Old fowl and cull pullets, 500, at 60c 300.00 Hens, sold for breeding, 100 at $2.00 200.00 Total $4,401.00 The cost of operation for the same period of time was found to be appor tioned approximately as follows: The Item of interest a,nd depreciation was not found on the books kept on the larm, but was added as a necessary and legitimate bill against the birds. The expenses were: Feed for young and old stock.sl,B6o.Oft Seed for ranges and yards 16.00 Team hire for plowing and seeding 48.00 Repairs and supplies for Ford delivery truck 168.00 Supplies .cartons, cases, etc. .. 211.00 Interest on investment at 5 pet. 300.00 Repairs and insurance 76.00 Total $2,679.00 Deducting the expenditures from the gross returns we find that this one-man flock of 1,000 birds paid the family working the farm a net profit of $1,722 for the year, or $33.11 a week, which is equivalent to a salary of $5 a day. This represents a profit per bird of $1.72. It is truly an In teresting experience, and shows what a moderate sized flock of birds in the hands of one who understands what he Is about will accomplish, if prop erly and intelligently handled. The experience cited is but typical of many other similar cases. How ever do not fail to appreciate the fact that not every one who begins as did this man can succeed in the same de gree, for there are many qualifications both as to the man and his ability. A man to succeed in such an undertak ing must first have some experience in the care and management of birds, secured from actual contact with them. He must furthermore have the right mental attitude in regard to his work. He must expect that the work will sometimes require especially late hours and at all times need constant application. He must not think for a minute that a one-man poultry flock is a lazy man's job; it is not: but for the man looking for interesting, con tinuous, healthy outdoor work, there is none better. Furthermore, the work about the birds must be congenial to him, he must have a natural love for them, and a desire to understand them through close personal contact and observation. It is only by doing this that they can be correctly fed and managed in such a way as to make a profitable production. Capital is also necessary to insure the success of such a venture as de scribed. The family mentioned began poultry work with $5,000 in cash of which SI,OOO was left in the bank for working capital. The start was made with but 3(10 birds, which was in creased to 500 the second year, 800 the third year, and 1,000 the fourth year, at which point it has since been maintained. It Is a mistake to start with limited experience and small capital, the beginning will be an uphill fight at best. It is much better to get some experience at the other fellow's expense and at the same time be sav ing sufficient capital to finance one's own farm at some future date. The success of an effort of this kind will be determined in largo part by the quality of stock which is secured for the foundation. Vigor and a nat ural, inherited tendency to lay eggs are essential. Be sure to get good stock from a reliable brpeder or poul tr.vman who is succeeding at the same game which you intend to follow. For the commercial egg trade in the East it is doubtful if any breed offers greater possibilities than the Leghorn They can usually be relied upon for a good yield of large white eggs, which means a full pocketbook for their owner. Marketing Eggs Profitably Knowing how to get maximum production from your poultry plant is Important. But unless you have a good understanding of the best methods of marketing your prod ucts, much of the advantage of getting good egg yields Is lost. In next week's article Professor W. G. Krum, Head of the Department of Poultry Husbandry, N'ew York State College of Agriculture, win tell when and how to secure top prizes and how to market eggs most profitably. The illustration by Louis Paul Graham will be of Exhibition Black Breasted Red Games. L . if i s Beginning Monday, January 3, The Semi-Annual Reduction Sale of Whittall Rugs Discontinued Patterns Offered at Attractive Savings This semi-annual event is counted the most important selling occasion of the entire year in the Carpet Section, for the reason that it presents the opportunity to possess the world's finest loom-made rugs at a fraction of their actual price. Whittall rugs need no introduction anywhere, for they are recognized everywhere as representing the highest mark of achievement at tainable in the making of rugs on a loom. No effort is spared by the Whittall mill to secufe the finest worsted yarns that leave the shores of Arabia and Persia. These yearns are scoured and dyed and woven under conditions of the highest sanitary standard into rugs which faith fully reproduce the patterns of Oriental floor coverings. Whittall rugs are made with as much art and fineness of coloring as rugs of Oriental origin, and they possess the same worthy wearing qualities as the finest Persian Carpet. Anglo Persian Rugs Chlidema Body Brussels Rugs " Teprac Wilton Rugs Size Regular Reduced Size Regular Reduced Size Regular Price Price Price Price Price Prlee 9x15 ft SBB.OO $70.40 9x12 ft $35.00 827.00 9x12 ft *40.00 sr » 9x12 ft $65.00 $51.50 8.3x10.6 ft $31.50 $25.00 8.3x10.6 ft $37.50 8.3x10.6 ft $58.00 840.50 9x10.6 ft '. $33.50 $20.75 6.>1x12 ft $34.00 8->7'vi 6x9 ft $39.50 $31.70 6x9 ft $21.50 817.20 6x9 ft $25.00 36x63 in $10.75 S 8.00 6.9x12 ft $28.50 822.00 36x63 in $ 7.00 ' ! 27x54 in $ 6.75 $ 5.30 27x54 in $ 3.50 8 2.85 27x34 in $ 4.50 !!.'!.'!! 8 is!ls Royal Worcester Wilton Rugs • n 11(1 | Anglo Indian Rugs Size R ifi ar "price 11 ] 1 "pfp''' Reduced 9x12 " _*' T»'j s l®' oo ' ferL 'I Other Makes of Rugs—Discontinued Patterns Peerless Body Brussels Rugs |JSjL, Si/e ' Re * ular Reduced Size Regular Reduced !i «L||2PRKS n vl o ff JX' 0 . 0 , Price price price i 9xl „ ft. ( v\ ilton) .oOvi 7 9x j. ft s a,* oo 9x12 ft $35 (!o 845.00 6x9 ft $19.00 $15.30 Dives, Pomcroy & Stewart —Carpet Department! Third Floor \ / WOMEN,S/NEERESTS "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" Cop .v rift lit by International Xewi Service I . » "Well, did you like it as well as you expected?" asked Louise as she and Helen pushed up their seats and pre pared to leave the theater. "Yes, I think I did," returned Helen, thoughtfully. "Wait a moment, dear; I have dropped my gloves," and she stooped to hunt for them under the seat. "Here they are," and they joined the crowds slowly pushing down the uisle. "We ought to go to the theater often together," said Louise, enthusi astically. "I know it, but somehow the time passes so quickly and I have been up to my ears in Christmas shopping. WTiat are you going to give Carrie?" "Oh, thank fortune, I have decided!" said Louise, with a sigh of relief. The subject of Carrie was always a sore one between the two women. Although Louise got along much better with lier than Helen did, just the same she knew and appreciated Helen's tem perament and felt for her when Carrie was particularly disagreeable. "I am going to give her sterling silver pepper and salt castors. She ought to appre ciate a present like that." They turned into the subway at Times Square and paused a moment before Helen left to go to the uptown platform. "Did you notice the man who sat next to me in the theater?" said Helen with a shudder of disgust. "No; what about him, dear?" "He was terribly annoying. First he tried to lean over against my arm, and for a while I thought it was acci dental. Then I turned and looked at him and found him smiling broadly. "Why didn't you tell me?" "I didn't want to spoil your pleas ure. A thing like that always annoys me more than it does any other woman." "I could have given him a look," said Louise. Nothing to Hide "I know, but it doesn't matter now. I'm afraid he heard our entire con versation, though. He listened atten tively to everything we said." "Well, whatever he heard won't make much difference to us. Here comes my train; good-by; don't forget dinner Sunday." Helen went slowly down the stairs and over to the uptown platform. She had hardly reached the place and stood still a moment when a well dressed man came up to her and, doffing his hat, said courteously: "Did you enjoy the play?" Helen recognized him immediately. He was the man who had eat next to her in the theater. At once her heart leaped in nervousness. Of course there was one thing to do: she might appeal to one of the guards: but that would attract attention, and Helen dreaded making a scene. "I don't know you, do X?" she finally said coldly. The man looked rather surprised at the directness of the question. But he said quickly: "Don't you know me—are you sure?" "I am sure I do not know you," said Helen, turning away and walking toward the train, which had just come in. The man followed her into the train, and as the peats were all taken they stood up side by side. Helen decided to get off at Seventy-second street and take an express. He surely wouldn't follow her off there. She stood in miserable, uncomfort able silence, swaying with the move ment of the train and praying inwardly that he would not speak to her again. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH But luck was not with her, and he leaned forward ingratiatingly. "I like the coat you are wearing; it is most becoming." Helen did not reply. She was wear ing her new fur coat and was con scious that she did look well in it. She fancied, too, that people were looking at her curiously. If he said much more she would have to answer. If her station would only come. "Seventy-second street!" bawled the guard, and Helen turned and made off nervously. "Let me help you," said a voice next to her. and the man touched her elbow to help her through the crowd. Helen in Despair Helen jerked away, but he persist ently followed her on. There was nothing to do. she would simply have to endure it, and his oily manner and absolute assurance made her so furi ous that she could have struck him gladly if her inherent dread of attract ing attention and her breeding had not urged more caution. In despair she walked down the aisle to the end seat. At least there was only one seat and he would have to stand. Then with a start she looked up to hear a different voice address her. "Well, where are you coming from?" And the good-natured face of Mr. Stevens smiled down at her. She rose with a little sob of relief. "This man," she began, and then stopped. The man was nowhere to be seen. He had evidently thought it advisable to get away before anything happened. Several people were now looking at Helen and Mr. Stevens, and as the seat next to Helen was finally left vacated, Mr. Stevens sat down and said soothingly: "Now everything is all right, Mrs. Curtis; don't think any more about it." "He followed me from the theater," explained Helen nervously, trying to control her voice. She was danger ously near the breaking point; her cheeks were flaming and her voice shook. " "Yes, there are plenty of them always on the lookout to annoy wom en," said Mr. Stevens in his matter of-fact way. "And I know I am terribly foolish about it." said Helen, smiling weakly. 'I never seem to know what to do." "Now if it had happened to Emily," said Mr. Stevens, and paused. At the thought of Mrs. Stevens being accosted by a stranger Helen could not help laughing, and then she felt better. Mr. Stevens, bluff and sensible, had known just what to do to calm her down. But if he hadn't come she would have been frantic. If only she weren't so help less. 12 For Headaches 38 u'i [mmmtw Joneaton-n, Pa., 1-21-15 I have tried ao many remedlea for headache* and none proved na aatla fnctorj aa tlir C'af-n-ao Antl-Paln Tablet*. I would advlae ail who Buf fer with headachea and neuralgia to try them. I think they have no equal. «HS. W. H. ZBHItING. * Personal News Items From Nearby Towns in Central Pennsylvania ENTERTAINS lUiR CLASS special to the Telegraph New Cumberland, Pa., Jan. I.—Mrs. Daniel Mathias, of Market street, en tertained her Sunday school class on Thursday evening. Refreshments were served to Misses Hazel Eeach, Anna Becker, Hazel Vogelsong, Annie Horner, Ruth Schell, Ruth Zimmer man, Esther Miller, Martha Goodyear. Other guests were the Rev. and Mrs. A. R. Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Stouffer, Hazleton; Mrs. Frank Green and children of York; Miss Helen Ayres. KEEPS KIDNEYS ACTIVE WITH A GLASS OF SALTS Must flush your Kidneys oc casionally if you eat meat regularly. Noted authority tells what causes Backache and Bladder weakness. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness, bladder dis orders come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or at tended by a sensation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water be fore breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lit.hia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder dis orders. Jad Salts is Inexpensive and cannot Injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which all regular meat eaters should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications.—Adv. Cumberland Valley Railroad TIME TABLE In Effect June 27, 1915. TRAINS leave Harrlaburg— For Winchester and Martlnsbursr at 5:03, *7:52 a. m.. *3:40 p. m. For Hagerstown, Chamberaburg, Car lisle, Mechanlcsburg and Intermediate stations at *5:03, >7:52, *11:53 a. m •3:40, 5:37, *7:45, *11:00 p. m. Additional trains for Carlisle and Mechanlcsburg at 9:48 a. ni„ 2:16, 3 '26 6:30, 9:35 a. m. 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