POULTRY RAISING ss 



Just a word here in mating your male birds, for 

 where you follow up my system, I advise four cocks 

 or. cockerels for every sixty layers. These birds 

 should be so mated that there is no fighting among 

 them, and no "boss" as a rule. 



After your breeding season is over, say July, you 

 should remove nearly all your male birds and make 

 one flock of them, except a few flocks which it would 

 be well to keep mated the season through, so you can 

 always fill a stray order for hatching eggs. 



Your cockerels should also be separated from the 

 pullets and placed in one large flock, or several flocks 

 of a loo or less in a flock. In this way, these male 

 birds run together very peaceably and rarely ever 

 fight; and you rarely see a "boss" among them. 



To mate them up, just take out of a bunch as 

 many as you want for a flock of females, all at once, 

 and let them go. You will then have no fighting and 

 very seldom even a "boss." This is the only way to 

 mate up }0ur birds, for the best possible results. 



Never keep a brassy male bird. Have nothing 

 but pure white birds on your place and you will find 

 your profits can be greatly increased by gradually 

 breeding into fancy birds. 



Show a few at your fall fairs, or local shows. Get 

 a standard and study them up. By careful selection, 

 you can soon have a plant of very fine birds. 



Do not try to show at the big shows, such as Madi- 

 son Square Garden or Boston, for it takes years of 

 study or a large sum of money to win at such shows 

 as these. 



Just a word about your houses and I am through. 

 If the houses I have given you the plans of in this 

 book are not warm enough for your location, you can 

 build them six feet at the eaves instead of four, by 

 xising a twelve foot board sawed in half in the centre. 

 Put a floor in this house at eaves and fill the top with 

 straw. Do not put on a tight floor, a floor of poles 

 would work all right. You could also line the sides 

 in the same way, and you would have a very warm 



