SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



50 or 100 eggs from pure-breds; mate the best cockerel raised 

 • with a pen of the best females and raise all his chicks from this 

 pen. In this way he can have a pure-bred flock in two years 

 at small cost. 



A. 12. Buy 100 or more eggs from a reliable breeder. 

 If not enough suitable males are raised to mate with the females, 

 buy from some breeder. 



A. 13. Buy best pair or trio of fowls obtainable and use 

 them for foundation stock. Would prefer to start with one 

 pair and that pair the best money would_^buy. 



A. 14. Buy eggs. 



A. 15 and 16. Buy both stock and eggs. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. Better demand at better prices than for any other 



variety, so far as I know. 



A. 19. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20.- Best utility fowl we have. Good layers, quick 

 grown, hardy and marketable at any age. 



A. 21. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 22. Choice exhibition specimens sell readily at $50. 

 to $100. each. As market fowls they have no superior. 



FARMER, SELL YOUR MONGRELS 



PURE-BREDS MAKE DOLLARS WHERE 

 SCRUBS MAKE CENTS— GET THE BEST 

 PURE STOCK YOU CAN BUY AND 

 MAKE MONEY FROM THE START 



U. R. FISHEL, Hope, Indiana 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 9. I would buy fowls by all means. 



A. 10. In buying fowls you save one year's time, also in 

 buying fowls they pay their way right from the start. A few 

 dollars more than that required for the purchase of eggs will 

 buy a good mating of breeders. If you buy your foundation 

 stock of a good reUable breeder there is no reason why your 

 investment should not prove a profitable one. 



A. 11. If I was a farmer and wanted to make more money 

 out of my poultry I would sell every mongrel I had and buy a 

 small flock of one variety of pure-bred fowls. With this flock 

 as the foundation I would in a few seasons have a flock of fowls 

 that would be making dollars where the mongrels make me 

 cents. 



A. 12. The only wise course for the farmer to take in 

 rearing poultry for fancy and market is to stock his farm with 

 one breed of fowls that are in great demand, and select a variety 

 that will breed true to color. Reserve the best for the fancy 

 trade and sell the ordinary ones to the markets, realizing from 

 one to three cents more per pound for them. 



A. . 13. The way for the beginner to follow who wants to 

 breed only a few fowls and those good ones should be to buy a 

 small pen of the very best quality that he can afford to buy. 

 Secure the birds of a breeder that you know breeds his winners. 

 You then know that you are getting stock that will produce 

 your winners. Always tie to a specialty breeder. You can then 

 bank on it that you are getting pure blood and stock that will 

 give you excellent results. 



A. 14. To the man that has but little capital I would 

 say buy a small pen or tiio of as good quality birds as your 

 means will permit. Breed them and sell their progeny until 

 you have enough money to get better birds. If you take the 

 proper variety and buy of the right party you will make money 

 from the start. 



A. 15. The proper way for one who has plenty of capital 



to enter the poultry business is to start slow, learn the business 

 and add to the plant as you know the details. Don't build a 

 thousand dollar poultry house and buy ten dollars' worth of 

 chickens, expecting the business to pay. It takes the chickens 

 to make the business profitable. 



A. 16. A man with moderate means will generally start 

 right for he cannot start except on a small scale. Buy a few 

 good birds, do not spend too much money for fine buildings, and 

 you will be all right. 



A. 17. I would by all means breed White Plymouth 



Recks. 



A. 18. They command the best of prices both for fancy 

 and market poultry. They are easy to breed by breeding true 

 to color; are the very best of egg producers; the best table fowl 

 we have, in fact, the White Plymouth Rocks are the most 

 beautiful and profitable fowl bred today. 



A. 19. White Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. They are by all odds the best money makers there 

 are; splendid layers, fiaie table fowls, in fact, they combine 

 every good quaUty and have no poor ones. 



A. 21. White Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 22. As mentioned above, they sell for more money 

 and breed truer than any other variety. 



QUALITY BEFORE QUANTITY 



BETTER TWENTY-FIVE GOOD BIRDS THAN ONE 

 HUNDRED INFERIOR ONES— SELECT A POPU- 

 LAR STANDARD VARIETY THAT SUITS YOU 



WILBER BROS., Petros, Tenn. 



SPECIALTY BREEDERS OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 9. Would buy stock, considering well quality and 

 not price. 



A. 10. On buying stock well mated for extra results, 

 paying a reasonable price and considering quality before quan- 

 tity (from an honest breeder who deals with his patrons as he 

 would desire to be dealt with), one is started for the front, hav- 

 ing gained a foundation that will keep him right with the breed- 

 ing and long experience behind him. However, if the begiimer 

 is not financially able to purchase a foundation flock of good 

 birds, would advise him to well consider the above and order 

 eggs of the best possible stock. 



A. 11. Would advise the farmer to cull down very close, 

 considering his best laying and table quality specimens, selling 

 off his scrubbiest birds and be sure he has selected his best; 

 rather 25 of his best birds than 100 little, big, all colors and 

 shapes. Afterwards buy from some good reUable breeder of 

 his choice of variety, purpose considered, a good cockerel, 

 strong and vigorous, to be mated with hens, a good yearling 

 cock to be mated with pullets, not mating more than 10 or 12 

 females to a male. 



A. 12. The farmer wishing to raise fancy stock as well as 

 poultry for market should consider well his market and the 

 color of the birds, color of skin, color of eggs, etc., his market 

 requirements, such as will meet with ready sale at top prices. 

 Select the most popular standard breed, suitable to fill these 

 requirements, make his foundation stock of extra quality, 

 selecting and separating his better specimens for fancy and sell- 

 ing the lower quality birds to the market. 



A. 13. The beginner with ample funds wishing to keep 

 a limited number of fine fowls will not find everything in this 

 line smooth sailing. Before engaging and entering into the busi- 

 ness he should study well the leading poultry journals, adding 

 to his library a copy of the American Standard of Perfection 



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