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BARNUM PUT ITSELF ON THE MAP
Success Came Through Poultry Raising On a'Commuhity Basis
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BARNUM
is a typical northern ounces to the dozen be placed in separate only 38.5 cents per dozen while during 1919 nays to make poultry pay with sty
Minneosta town, set in a clearing cartons; the brown eggs kept separate, and the average was 45.4. This is the 1919
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left by the lumberjacks a score of lastly that all eggs for selling must be kept record. It is a good forecast of what the
years ago when the native pines in a dry, cool place until marketed. Mr. 1920 record will be.
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were cut and logged away. -Same old Hanson furnished each of his egg men with
Double Walls Fibre Board—Self-regulated
—Hot-Water CopperTank—Safety Lampdepot,
same old potato warehouse, typical a number, also a rubber stamp bearing that
Thermometer Holder-Egg Tester-Nursery.
19.19 Dozens Av. Price Total
single street that you've seen so many times number this number to be stamped on each
With my $7.55 Hot Water Double-Walled
140-Chlck Brooder—both only $18.50
and always will see so long as you are in egg and on the outside of each carton, so January.... 8,935 $0.52.4 $4,688.43 Freight Prepaid
the. cutover sections -of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan. Were you passing the seller can very readily be traced.
that in case of a bad egg being found, February... 7,901 .39. 1 3,090.92
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I ship qnfck from Buffalo, Jfb>
through, this little town would hardly creaate
a ripple of curiosity while a brief visit During 1907 the railroad at Barnum han-
May! 18,483 .41.3 7,642.35 spa unmake a big Income.
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the early winter of 1908. April....... 16,525 .38.9 6,430.56 Ini
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would disclose that Barnum is on the map, dled for shipment out of Barnum exactly June 15,398 .39.3 6,122.30
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not so much for wjiat is is, but rather for 450 dozen eggs. In June 1908 Mr. Hanson
made his first shipment to Duluth.
July 11,476 .41.7 4,781.71
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August 9,839 .46.9 4,519.97
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to earn extra money. JU.'* " " ¦»¦ i"i
what the Barnum community has done
September.. 5,551 .48.6 2,697.68 Sate tune-order s&BSJBBS^ ^gn.
and is doing.
They sold at a premium and were so satisfactory
that he has now been shipping to November.. 2,952 .68.5 2,023.52 ; day for my^Free |UL^TpjT-ri P||HE
October 2,487 .57.3 1,426.13 now, or ;inrite td%fpiiis^^^^^=^H|Hl
Just an afternoon spent peeping into the
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backyards of the villages or driving past that market for 12 years, and Barnum eggs
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December.... 8,183 .73.4 6,011.50
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the settlers' cabins which nestled among always sell at a premium. In 1908 Mr.
It teUs everything. Jim Sonan,B»* ~ rv '- ' B.
the stumps and second-growth timber will Hanson paid the farmers 17 cents for the
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disclose how Barnum put itself on the map. first eggs shipped, which was 2 cents above
How? Because it is the hub of a community
where poultry is not just kept to eat advanced and with a good market, interest has been paying the farmers 2 cents a
store prices. Each year thereafter prices Mr. Hanson during the past 12 years
waste feeds but where poultry raising has in egg production naturally increased and dozen below the market price. Mr. Hanson
furnishes all the cases, liners, cartons,
become a highly specialized and very profitable
industry; where everyone, town as During the latter half of 1908, Mr. Han-
rubber stamps for stamping and quite often
the industry developed,
well as country folk not only raise poultry, son shipped out 6,420 dozen, against 450 does the collecting from the farmers.
talk poultry and.think poultry but dream dozen in the previous year. For these This expense amounts to over one cent a H^^aaaaw3atroi«er chtcka with lesa attention; less
than any oparaRaK^a^BBMBB¥B#>a'expaDae
other incubator made.
poultry dreams.
dozen, leaving him r^aTn^aB5?*Sj There why the &Ray Is the ecknowlednol
l^lsWPiWSyworw'B Beat Hatcher andprofit producer.
Potatoes are the
a profit of only a ¦Pi^ 20 HATCHING REASONS
main cash crop and
fraction of one cent t^^a erclarire new taproraiMPta mich «the X-Bai Automttja
F=-"l BesTalator. Radintor Herts tfec5=rf_._ _._ ,,
dairying is next in
for handling. |S^%
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importance but it is
In the spring ¦fe V.' SW^lfiWlcATALOQ
pals the son way to nrnke
the third industrypoultry
raising—
drop Mr. Hanson
when prices usually
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which is exciting
pays his patfons the
the most comment
full market price
and whi gh has
for their eggs in
brought Barnum
order to keep up
the greatest fame.
interest and enthusiasm.
During this
Why? ' Because
Barnum—to emphasize
the point once
stores in his cream-
Make Money ^^
season he buys and
more—has taken up
ery about 800 cases, Raising Poultry
poultry raising as a
paying the market \
m Man a postal for Johnson's free) "Font. *
community proposition;
because it
then holds these I WRITE TODAY!
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has specialized in
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