VALUE OF STANDARD BREDS 



A. 2. I have never bought eggs for this purpose; have 

 preferred to buy fowls. 



A. 3. Highest cash price received for a single specimen, 

 $100. Have sold thirteen male Brahmas for $100. each; one Tien 

 for $55. 



A. 4. Simply on their merit, as a result of people seeing 

 them in my yards and buying them to exhibit. I sold four 

 Ban-ed Rock pullets for $30. each, to W. Haven, who showed' 

 them, won on them and refused $100. for the first prize winner. 

 I scored her at 95 points the day I sold her and again when she 

 was three years old, giving her the same high score. I sold twO 

 Light Brahma cockerels, one for $100., the other for $50. H. S. 

 Ball scored the $100. bird at 96 points and the $50. bird at 

 954 points. 



A. 5. Have sold several trios for $150. each. I sold the 

 get of one cock bird for an average of $75. each. This flock 

 brought me $1,435. Enough birds were stolen from this flock, 

 so that, at the same average, I would have received $2,235. from 

 the get of that one pen. 



A. 6. Highest average price received for any five fowls, 

 $250. Remember I have never been an exhibitor. It has been 

 my patrons who have got the highest prices. The year I sold 

 the whole flock at the $75. average per bird, these young birds 

 were entered to win one hundred and one prizes and won eighty- 

 seven out of the one hundred and one. 



A. 7. I sold a cock and eight females to one purchaser 

 at $158. In those days this was a record price. As before 

 stated, my birds were sold on their merits, early in the season, 

 as a rule at living prices to those who wanted them for exhibi- 

 tion purposes. 



A. 8. The pens have been sold at $50. to $100. for five, 

 as a rule. Sold a pen for $65. that was never beaten. They 

 were shown in Massachusetts, Maryland and Kentucky. The 

 cock won first prize at one show during four years in succession. 

 It has been my policy not to name prizes my patrons have won 

 and I have never advertised to whom my birds were sold, for to 

 do so would be to rob my customers of the prestige of winning. 

 We have shown but a few times, and as a rule the winning birds 

 were sold. The pen of Brahmas sold by us at $75. swept the 

 deck at a Massachusetts exhibition on a score of 189| by Judge 

 Ballou. The cock in that pen was never beaten in his Hfe. 

 His score was 95J points. 



I could not do business if it were not for the breeding of 

 exhibition specimens. The man who goes into poultry culture 

 must kill half he raises, and sell them for poultry and eggs to 

 pay current expenses. His profit must come from the exhibi- 

 tion stock he raises and sells. 



If your birds win in your patrons hands you need not be 

 worried about selling all the birds you can produce at good 

 prices. Ten dollars for thirty or forty birds is not the question — 

 the average, sale is what tells the story. I have seen a cobbler 

 who raised only thirteen chicks from fifteen eggs go into one 

 of our largest exhibitions and he won three out of five first 

 prizes. Quality is what tells, not quantity. 



JOHN HETTICH, Bowling Green, Mo. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BLACK LANGSHANS 



A. 1. Highest cash price paid for single specimen, $25. 

 For two, $30. For three, $40. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, $15. for 

 twelve eggs. 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, $35. for 

 a cock Joird, $30. for a cockerel. 



A. 4. This bird had won first as cockerel, score 95 J by 

 Hewes at the Illinois State Show, 1901. Cockerel sold for $30; 

 was unsoored, sold him on description. Afterwards he won 



first prize and received a score of 94i points by Ben. S. Myers. 

 A. 5. For five fowls of exhibition quality, $35. Were 

 worth $100. of any man's money. January 2d, 1904, they were 

 scored, cockerel 95i, pullets 96i, 95i; hens 94^, 93i; pen 190i. 

 Poultry with me is a side line. Am in the retail show business 

 and breed Langshans for fancy. I handle them on three city 

 lots, but have a good many raised for me on farms; I furnish 

 the eggs and buy the stock back in the fall. 



GARDNER & DUNNING, Auburn, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALISTS. 



A. 1. Highest cash price paid for single specimen, $200. 

 For two, $350. For three, $450. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, one sit- 

 ting, $10. 



A. '3. Highest price received for single specimen, $100. 

 We have sold a number at this price, but to give a list of the 

 prizes won would be to injure our customers. We never claim 

 winnings of birds we sell, unless by customers' express permis- 

 sion. WiU say, however, that two of the birds here referred to 

 won first prize at Chicago. 



A. 5. Highest average price received for three, $100. 



A. 6. For five, $100. each. 



A. 7. For ten, $50. each. 



A. 8. For twenty five, $50. each. 



J. C. FISHEL & SON, Hope, Ind. 



SPECIALTY BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 1. Highest cash price paid for single specimen, $50. 

 For two, $100. For three, $150. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, one sit- 

 ting, fifteen eggs, $10.; a number of times $25. per hundred. 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, $150. 



A. 4. The cockerel was a very fine bird; was bred from a 

 strain of line-bred birds and well advertised. He was good 

 enough to win in fast company. 



A. 5. We sold three cock birds for $300, i. e., $100 each. 



A. 6. Highest price received for five, $150. 



A. 7. For ten, $20. each. 



A. 8. For twenty-five, $18. each. 



W. R. GRAVES, Springfield, Mass. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 1. Highest price paid for single specimen, $35. For 

 two, $60. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, one sit- 

 ting of fifteen eggs, $10. 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, $200. 



A. 4. Won first cock and special for best shaped male at 

 Madison Square Garden, January 1903. Used as a model by 

 Mr. F. L. Sewell, in making illustrations for the American 

 Standard of Perfection. 



A. 5. Highest average price received for three, $133. 



A. 6. For five, $110. 



A. 7. For ten, $82.50. 



A. 8. For any twenty-five, $48. 



J. H. DOANE, Gouveneur, N. Y. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB BLACK MINORCAS 



A. 1. Highest price paid for single specimen, $35. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, 13 Minorca 



at $3. 



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