Ypsilanti Egg And Poultry Industry

George H. Morse, of Middlefooro, .Mass., representing the Boston Poultiy House of Boston, lias cloeed his season in this city and will open next year ín the oM Ainsworth crea-mery, east of tlie Otxngress street bridge, he haviug leased the building for a tern of three years. Dnring the nine weeks he has been liere he has boiight, killed and shipped 142.000 pounds of turkey, ducks a uil chickeas, which means a pile oí money distributed out among the farmers for their poultry. He has empioyed 16 women pickers who have er.rned an average oü $10 a week. Mr. .Morse has also shipped 8,000 pounds oí feathers to 'Detroit and Three Oáts. Said Mr. Morse: "I advise farmers not to raise any more Leghorns is the market deniands a larger and better breed and they will find it to their, advantage to raise the bet ter breed. I desire to ihank the fai-mers for their great patronage this year. which has exeeeded any former year and I hope to see them all again next season." The Messrs. Johnson Bros., at the eold storage on E. Congress sti-eet, have just cloeed one oí the busiest years they have had since the exi.stenee of the firm, having received an.l shipped duriu: that period 300,000 dozeDs of eggs and 85,000 nounds of poultry of all kinds. They have paid out in cash for the same nearly $35,000, all of which has gone intj the hands of the merchants and farmers of Ypsilanti and vieinity. They hfve always paid the hlghest market price for their stock, most of the time paying Detroit quotations. They kept this money at home, which the merchants of Ypsilanti and the farmers who market their produce at this point should appreciate. The qualHy of the po-jltry received ly tlieiu this seasou was hardly up to the usual standard of stock usuallj n.arketed here. The turkeys, as a genera] rule, were ia pooi' conditlon It is true the weather was ,nir-i agairrat the fatting of turkeys last fall; still the farmers, as a rule, mistake in not begirraing to feed earlj ec.ough, which makes it dlfflcult to (■(indition thelf stock for tlic ThanKsgriving maxket The cliu-ks at! fowls were almost invarlaiily smal], and oui of ruudition. If the poultry grower wishes to gei fesults that will ive iiin the most proflt lu sliould weed out his sm dl and inferior stock, and breed to a larger and more fancy strain of bmls By s doirig he will get nearly aa many eggs and a "nnicli Iarger and faneier class ot stack, ii"sidcs relizIng doublé theweight rtr ln-.id whea disposing of his surplus, beáides be is tnarketing something that the dealer wants. Good ](Mi!tfy .il vays coui niands a good juli e and produces satisifaetary resulta to the pouttry grow-ïi as well as to the shipper.