STARTING IN THE BUSINESS 



visit some good shows, then select the variety that best suits 

 his taste and that he has a love and fancy for, not overlooking 

 one of the popular varieties. Make a very close study of the 

 subject, have your houses and yards properly built, buy for 

 foundation stock a good trio or pen mated to produce high class 

 exhibition birds. Get them of some reliable and noted breeder 

 who has won for years in the better class of shows and you will 

 have the correct start, after which your future success depends 

 upon your own efforts. 



A. 14. Make a close study of the chosen variety. Go to 

 some good shows if possible. Get in communication with some 

 good breeder, telling him your circumstances and wishes, and 

 order a sitting or two of eggs from the breeder's best matings. 

 Do not buy cheap sittings. 



A. 15. We would well consider location, market, houses 

 of modern types, but convenient and comfortable to fowls. 

 Having attended some good shows and studying the Standard 

 and poultry journals he would be ready for the foundation stock. 

 Would consider well the quality and the variety best suited, 

 choosing one of the popular ones. Reserve the best birds for 



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W. L. DAVIS, Berlin, Conn. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE-COMB BUFF, BLACK AND WHITE ORPINGTONS 



A. 9. I certainly should advise buying grown stock with 

 which to make a start. 



A. 10. The reason for buying full grown stock would be 

 simply because I know what I want and with that in view I 

 should proceed to secure just the kind of specimens that I wanted 

 to carry out my ideas on breeding. There never can be any 

 doubt when you buy stock, as the material is there for you to 

 see and judge. In buying eggs there is always a doubt whether 

 you get that which you pay for or not. If I could buy from a 

 reliable dealer eggs from his best yards I would consider this a 



PEKIN DUCKS AT HOME 

 A flock of Pekin Ducks at the Echo Poultry Farm, Great Valley, N. Y. 



breeding and fancy trade, selling the lower quality on the 

 market. 



A. 16. Start as per our answer in previous question, 

 building from the ground up, not being too hasty, but keeping 

 in view his future, and the amount of money he has to invest. 

 Do not overlook the quality of the foundation stock. 



A. 17. Single-Comb White Leghorns, the best to be had 

 £j considering size, standard qualities and egg production. 



A. 18. Because they are unexcelled as layers and are 

 found on the world's greatest poultry plants where eggs are 

 wanted in abundance the year round, the eggs of good size, 

 high flavor, with a white shell, that are in demand at a good 

 price. There has never been and never will be enough of these 

 birds reared to fill the great demand for first quality breeding 

 and exhibition stock. They are beautiful, profitable and the 

 greatest of all layers. 



A. 21. Single-Comb White Leghorns. 



A. 22. Because they are unexcelled layers, non-sitters, 

 make very plump, small roasters and broilers, their skin being 

 creamy or yellow and the meat very sweet, fine and juicy. 



fair way to start into breeding the very best. If I could not be 

 sure of this I would buy stock by all means. 



A. 11. I should advise the farmer in addition to buying 

 new blood to buy eggs for hatching from a good reliable breeder. 

 If I liked the offspring and they did well with me I should go 

 still further and buy some stock from this same breeder. 



A. 12. Go to some good breeder and buy the best grade 

 of birds that he thought he could sell. Pay the breeder a fair 

 price and let this be the start. If the farmer lives in a locality 

 where there is a call for high class poultry with good prices for 

 same, I should advise ijaying a good price for a pen -of birds to 

 start with. If the farmer was a novice at raising poultry a 

 cheaper pen would be better to start in with, and he could 

 correct his mistakes as he went along, at the same time getting; 

 educated in the breeding business. 



A. 13. Buy the very best that he can procure. Pay the 

 breeder for the best and be sure that attention and time are given 

 to them in securing same. 



A. 14. Would advise him to buy several sittings of good 

 eggs from a reliable breeder. You understand all through my 



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