PACIFIC T R I-: K AN 1 ) VINE 



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By A. Warron Robi 



"What do you charge per setting: 

 for your best eggs?" is a question oft- 

 en asked the specialist. The price is 

 stated, and not infrequently objection 

 is made. The remarks are to this eff- 

 ect: "At the stores such and such mon- 

 ey is paid. Your price far exceeds that 

 Don't you thii.k you are asking a big 

 price?" 



Look at the matter in this light. Here 

 is a person who has invested consider- 

 able money in pure-bred poultry, of the 

 variety he thinks best suited to the 

 purpose he has in view. He has taken 

 pains to keep his flock in fine shape, 

 infusing- fresh blood from reliable 

 yards from time to time. The culls 

 he has sold it market rates. The egg.s 

 he offers for sale during the hatching 

 season are carefully selected and are 

 the result of long, painstaking, careful 

 breeding and selection. 



If tliese eggs command double the 

 price of ordinary store eggs, or five 

 times as much, even, ai'e they not just- 

 ly worth the price? Are they to be 

 rated at the Sivme figures realized from 

 the eggs laid by flocks one so often 

 sees on the farms of California — a mix- 

 ture of many breeds, not the least care 

 or thought having been given to their 

 breeding? In the one case there has 

 been careful, judicious breeding. In 

 the other, things have been left to take 

 their own course. Yet there are some 

 persons who grumble at paying a 

 fair price for number one, selected eggs. 



The person who breeds pure-blooded 

 stock, be it poultry, cattle, horses or 

 hogs, is a ijublic benefactor. He is 

 thus esteemed by more persons now, 

 than in years gone by. The farmer is 

 often very slow to acknowledge the 

 wise policy of getting his flock in bet- 

 ter shape. But no other investment will 

 prove inore iirofitable. 



How rapidly the breeding season is 

 passing! Soon the long, hot days will 

 come, when little chicks will not thrive 

 so well as during the spring months. 

 The best plan is to have plenty of incu- 

 bators and at the most, hatch only 

 during the earlier months of the year. 

 One very large and successful poultry 

 plant in the East, incubators are run 

 not more than twice each season. Very 

 early hatched chickens do well and 

 those brought cut in May and June may 

 thrive. But the strongest hatches are 

 those taken off in the season before 

 mentioned. 



Therefore, it is well to press things 

 along this line. Use eggs from good 

 stock — that is the first requisite. Care- 

 ful Incubation, and still more watchful 

 brooding is needed if one wishes to at- 

 tain the fullest amount of success. 

 Plenty of nourishing food, a watchful 

 eye upon the youngsters until the dan- 

 ger of overcrowding is past — these and 

 other details r-eed looking after. 



To some persons the time may seem 

 long ere the chicks develop into the 

 well-grown pullets. Yes, many steps 

 have to be taken, much watchful care 

 gi\en. But the mature flock gives one 



pardonable pride and then the needed 

 care and fatiguing labor is forgotten. 



Gapes. 



There is no doubt that gapes are 

 caused by a snuill worm gathered from 

 the fllth of the yard — usually in an em- 

 bryo state and being warmed in the 

 crop of the -hicken develops the small 

 worm which gradually interferes with 

 breathing and produces that gaping 

 which eventually ends in death. 



Incubator chicks have never been 

 known to have gapes, neither have 

 those that are kept in clean, grassy 

 plats. Only those that have had runs 

 on bare ground, where fllth was allow- 

 ed to accumulate have ever had gapes, 

 and all tests have shown conclusively 

 that filth produced the disease. If the 

 chicks are under the care of a hen, see 

 that the yards are kept clean and 

 change the location of the coops every 

 few days. Keep lime scattered over 

 the ground where there is no gr.ass and 

 do noi let th(> chicks eat their food 

 amid filth and mud. 



W. A. GILBERT 



OAK PARK, CAL. 

 Sacra MKNTo P. O.... 



White Plymouth 



• ••■vOCKS*** 



A Specialty. WinnerH First Prize Breed- 

 ing Pen Sacramento State Fair, 1900 and 

 1901. 



Eggs in Season, $2.50 per 15 



Mem. Am. White Plymouth Rock Club. 



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JEWELER AND SILVERSMITHS. 



CHAS. A. BOIHWELL— 112 SOUTH FIR8T 

 street, San Jose. Pbone Black 1M2. 



Fine young stock now ready for shipment at reasonable 

 prices. If you want HEAVY LAYERS you should have 

 some of our BROWN LEGHORNS. Let us furnish you 

 a trio or breeding pen. Get the best, and they will pay 

 for themselves in a short time. LARGE BIRDS and 

 layers of LARGE EGGS. Send for our circular. It's free. 



WILLIAMS BROS., Fruitvale, California 



BOX 56 



La Perlita Del Monte Poultry Farm 



Winners of first prizes at State Fair and Oakland Poultry Show. 



Buff, White, Black and Partridge Cochins: Buff ami While P. Rocks; Light Brahmas. White and 

 Black Langshaus, White Wyandottes, White and Buff Leghorns, R. C. Brown and White Leghorns; 

 Black and White Minorcas; Black and White and Buff Cochin and R. C. Black Bantams. Broncc 

 Turkeys. Toulouse and Knideii Geese. Pekin Ducks. Pea FowLs and Pearl Guineas. 

 EGGS FOR HATCHING. Write for prices and particulars We guarantee satisfaction In all 



cases T. B. C. SIELCKEN, P. 0. Box 61. Calistoga, Cal. 



Begin Alow to feed for Eggs and you will have them to sell 



when others are just realizing that 

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did it. Ask your dealer for Emery's Poultry Foods. 

 All commission men handle them. 



N. OHLMNDX <Sr CO. 



Indiana and ^-^th Streets 



in Francisco 



