ADVANTAGES OF PURE BREEDS OVER MONGRELS 99 



Cost of Keep no Greater. — It costs no more to keep a given num- 

 ber of pure-bred birds than it does to keep the same number of 

 mongrels. The requirements for maintenance are the same in 

 each case. The requirements for production vary in different 

 individuals, according to their amount of production, and vary in 

 one class the same as in another. 



More Efficiency from Feeding. — There is more efficiency from 

 the feed consumed when pure-breds are kept, for a breeder will 

 naturally select a type which is adapted to his purpose, as eggs 

 or meat. These pure-bred types have been developed and selected 

 with a purpose in view. The nature of that particular type is to 

 bend all its energy toward the product for which it is best suited. 

 For example, greater efficiency is developed from feeding Leg- 

 horns when eggs are desired than there would be from feeding 

 Cochins or mongrels. On the other hand, there would be greater 

 economy in feeding Brahmas when meat is the object than there 

 would be in feeding Leghorns or mongrels. 



Demand for Breeding Purposes. — A poultryman who makes a 

 specialty of one or more pure breeds and develops considerable 

 ability to produce good birds of that breed finds an increasing 

 demand for his stock and eggs for breeding purposes. The price 

 received for them under such conditions is always considerably 

 higher than for market purposes. Even when he makes a specialty 

 of breeding for some commercial product, as market eggs or meat, 

 he can always dispose of surplus cockerels, yearling hens, and a 

 large number of eggs during the breeding season, at a greatly 

 increased price. Any breeder who does not consider these oppor- 

 tunities and take advantage of them is not getting everything out 

 of the business that is in it. 



A Greater Selling Vahie. — Pure-bred poultry will always be 

 found to have a greater selling value, whether it be for meat, 

 eggs, or breeding purposes. The same care devoted to a standard- 

 bred flock that is devoted to a mixed flock would result in a 

 better quality of meat, in eggs more nearly uniform and a greater 

 number of them, or in birds which have a relatively higher value 

 as breeding stock. 



The standard-bred flock has come to the American farm to 

 stay. It has been shown by many experiments in all parts of the 

 country that for no purpose do crossed or mongrel birds produce 

 a better result or return a greater revenue. One of the first and 

 best assurances of success is to start with standard-bred birds. 



