10 NATURE AND ITS 



seen a horse sick, nor a cow, when raised in a wild state. 

 This is bred into them for years. Ranchmen used to buy 

 and import pure blood Jerseys, Holstein and Short Horn 

 Bulls to improve their stock, but not a quarter of them 

 would live through the hard winters, with no shelter, no 

 hay, etc., and not being used to it. Finally they bought 

 cows of pure blood and had them bred to pure blooded 

 stock. The young stock was born there and from the first 

 day had to put up with roughing it and they got used to the 

 climate, and conditions. They did well and picked their 

 living the same as the rest of the native stock. Now, if 

 those fine pure blooded in-bred cattle were housed in a 

 warm house and all kinds of feed and fancy food and side 

 dishes given them they would surely get sick and not do 

 well. In fact, most of these finely bred and kept stock are 

 delicate and thin blooded. The best and only way to get 

 strong healthy stock is to cross them. 



So with Poultry, you must cross them and not with any 

 old thing, but keep one color, either all Buff or all White. 

 Use different breeds. Never use a black cock to white hens 

 or a white cock to buff hens. Always keep the same color, 

 either buff or white, so when you sell for market they are 

 all one color and you then get from three to five cents more 

 per pound, and then you can also sell eggs to broiler men 

 and to farmers, for this is just the kind of stock they want- 

 They don't want fancy lacing and show points. They want 

 practical business Poultry. The year 1900 government sta- 

 tistics show almost $500,000,000 made in Poultry and eggs 

 and over three-fourths of this amount is made by farmers. 

 Eggs are figured at six and eight cents per dozen and poul- 

 try ten cents per pound. This is the average price farmers 

 get for their Poultry and eggs. The Poultrymen who make 

 a business of Poultry get on an average of twenty-five cents 

 per dozen for eggs and fifteen cents per pound for spring 

 chickens to private trade, and if they could raise all they 

 hatch there would be 100 per cent in the business for the 

 money invested. 



