SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, $75. 



A. 4. Cock was bred in the purple and won first at Madi- 

 son Square Garden, in 1902. F. B. Zimmer was the judge. A 

 son of this bird won first the next year, but I lost him, with 

 nearly all my other Minorcas, in a fire the following April. 



A. 5. Highest average price received for three, $50. each. 



W. L. DAVIS, Berlin, Conn. 



OWNER WILLOW BROOK FARM AND BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB 

 BUFF, BLACK AND WHITE ORPINGTONS 



A. 1. Highest price paid for single specimen, $150. For 

 two, $225. For ten, $650. 



A. 2. Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, $20. per 

 dozen; six dozen, $90. 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, $300. 



A. 4. I was able to obtain the above named prices simply 

 because they had merit and were the finest specimens that 



females and one male in Single Comb Buff variety for $300. 

 These were simply breeding birds, not intended for show pur- 



A SIMPLE WATER FOUNTAIN, BUT ONE THAT IS 

 PRACTICAL AND CONVENIENT 



parties could buy. Hardly a week passes that I do not receive 

 $50. for some individual fowl. I have sold a good many at 

 $100. each and I have specimens upon my plant that $500 cash 

 could not buy. 



A. 5. Highest price received for three, $350., sold on 

 one order. 



A. 7. For ten sold at one time to one party, $350. I 

 sold a breeding lot of birds a few days ago, including twelve 



I wish to call your attention to the fact that our farm is 

 devoted to fancy or standard-bred poultry exclusively. As 

 our young stock matures, the specimens that show serious de- 

 fect are consigned to the market, but there are only a few such 

 birds; therefore, what little we do in this line of business can 

 hardly be called utility poultry breeding. We are sparing 

 neither money nor labor to perfect our strains and each year 

 the number of defective specimens grow less. 



A. 8. In reply to the latter part of your blank I would 

 state that we have received some very high prices throughout 

 the country. I have sold no doubt over 100 birds in the last 

 two years at $50. each. This morning's mail brings me an order 

 for one at $50. to go to Tennessee and also three to go to Mexico 

 for $100. I was offered $600. for my first prize Buff cock at 

 New York, 1903, but I could not afford to sell him, as I was 

 just starting and had a reputation to make, and had to have the 

 breeding of this bird to get better stock from. I could hardly 

 afford to keep him, being offered that price, but I considered 

 it better business judgment to keep him, even though we needed 

 the money, than to be minus his breeding. 



U. R. FISHEL, Hope, Ind. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF WHITE PLYMOUTH HOCKS 



A. 3. Highest price received for single specimen, 



A.- 4. This bird won second prize at Indianapolis show, 

 1906. I would not sell the first prize cock bird at this same show, 

 although I was offered $1,000. for him by the man who paid 

 $800. for the second prize bird. 



A, 5. Sold three cock birds to one party for $1,300. 



A. 6. Sold seven White Plymouth Rocks for $1,750. 

 This includes the $800. cock bird. 



A. 7. Highest average price received for ten, $250. each. 



A. 8. For twenty-five, $160. each. 



A. C. HAWKINS, Lancaster, Mass. 



BREEDER OF ROYAL BLUE STRAIN PLYMOUTH ROCKS BARRED, WHITE 

 AND BUFF; ALSO SILVER. WHITE AND BUFF WYANDOTTES 



A. 1. 

 two, $200. 



A. 2. 

 tings at $10 



A. 3. 



A. 4. 

 York Show. 



For 



Highest price paid for single specimen, $100. 

 For three, $300. 



Highest price paid for eggs for hatching, four sit- 

 , per sitting. 



Highest price received for single specimen, $300. 

 This bird was the first prize cockerel at the New 

 I refused $500. for him before the breeding season. 

 After breeding him one season I sold him for the price named. 

 (Note: — Mr. Hawkins has omitted to state the variety to which 

 this bird belonged, but we are of the opinion it was a Barred 

 Plymouth Rock.— Ed.) 



A. 5. Highest average price received for three, $200. each. 

 A. 6. For five, $200. each. 



A. 8. For any twenty-five fowls of exhibition quality, 

 $100. each. These wereto different parties. Have sold twenty- 

 five to one party at an average of $50. each. 



J. M. WILLIAMS & CO., North Adams, Mich. 



BREEDERS AND EXHIBITORS OF ALL VARIETIES OF SINGLE AND 

 ROSE COMB ORPINGTONS 



A. 1. 

 two, $125. 

 paid $500. 



Highest price paid for single specimen, $100. For 

 We bought one lot of fifteen birds for which we 



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