SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



remarks I am laying great stress upon buying stock of reliable 

 breeders. We have lots of them in this country that I would 

 just as soon send to for eggs and know that I would get 

 what I ordered as I would to go and see them laid at the plant. 

 There are, however, some unreUable breeders that cannot be 

 dealt with in this way. Also, advertisements are misleading, and 

 a look at their stock would convince an experienced breeder at 

 once that they were not all that they should be 



A. 15. Hire a. thoroughly competent man to attend to 

 the busiaess for the first year or so at any rate, paying him from 

 $60. to $100. a month. Go with him to some good breeder and 

 buy extra good stock, also make arrangements with that same 

 breeder to secure a sufl&cient number of eggs for hatching. 



A. 16. I would advise him to buy eggs of the variety he 

 hked best. Begin small aad grow up with the business, learn- 

 ing as he goes along. 



A. 17. Orpingtons. 



A. 18. They are bound to be one of the most populai 

 varieties in America, and they have the good quaUties back of 

 them to make them so. You cannot keep a good man down 

 nor can you keep this good variety of poultry down. They have 

 real merit and anything in this country that has real merit 

 fcack of it has got to be a success in time. They are among the 

 best layers, as the Australian egg laying contest proves. They 

 <command the highest prices in the fancy trade of any breed 

 that I know. They are handsome, attractive birds; they will 

 forage for their feed bett,er than any other variety I know of; 

 easy keepers, making finest of mothers, and can be broken of 

 sitting easily. They have white skin that is fast becoming 

 popular in our great pubUc markets. To lovers of the very 

 best things to eat they appeal the strongest. 



A. 19. If I was to embark in market poultry raising I 

 would take the variety that was best adapted for the locaUty 

 iato which I was going. If it was around New York I should 

 take Orpingtons by all means, as they are \p. such demand. 

 Boston is a great town for yeUow skin and I should select some 

 varieties like the Wyandottes or White Rocks for that locahty, 

 although I believe if Orpingtons were selected it would not be 

 long before the market would find out their good quahties, and 

 the up-to-date poultryman could get a better price than his 

 neighbor who is breeding yellow skinned birds. 



A. 20. My reasons for these selections are purely business 

 ones to make the most money where I can, by catering to the 

 demand of the pubUc. 



A. 21. I can only answer this question by stating that I 

 am in both lines, and I breed nothing but Orpingtons. 



A. 22. My reason for this choice is that I have been very 

 successful in the poultry business, and this is the reason of my 

 holding to the Orpingtons exclusively. I formerly raised Games, 

 Leghorns, Light Brahmas and Barred Plymouth Rocks. For 

 the past five years my Orpington business has increased each 

 year, therefore my choice of this breed is perfectly satisfactory 

 to me. 



MORE ECONOMY TO BUY FOWLS 



' COST OF ONE THOUSAND EGGS WILL 



PAY FOR STOCK THAT WILL PRO- 

 DUCE THREE TIMES AS MANY 



W. R. CURTISS & CO., Ransomville, N. Y. 



SPECIALTY BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTXES; SINGLE COMB 

 LEGHORNS AND PEKIN DUCIfS , 



A. 9. Would buy fowls. 



A. 10. It is more economical. The same money you 

 would invest in one thousand eggs will buy a pen that would 



produce at least three times as many eggs of the same quality, 

 and your eggs are fresh and will hatch better than eggs shipped 

 from a distance. Eggs are a lottery; you do not know what 

 you have till the season is over. 



A. 11. We do not beUeve in cross breeds. Get a pen of 

 pure blood stock and get the mongrels off the place as soon as 

 possible. It might pay to introduce males in a flock of mongrels, 

 but a pen of good birds would not cost any more than pure-bred 

 males for a big flock. 



A. 12. Buy a good pen of breeding stock; it is the best 

 way to start. 



A. 13. We do not advise buying birds in a show room. 

 Go to some good reUable breeder and pay him to mate a few 

 pens that will produce just what you want. We beUeve a better 

 start can be had this way than in any other; as in our way, it 

 is up to the breeder to make good. He is responsible for what 

 the stock breeds. 



A. 14. , Go on a practical poultry plant, learn the busi- 

 ness and get a position as manager. Would not advise starting 

 in the poultry business without capital, unless it is to start 

 small and work into it in connection with another business. 



A. 15. Secure a good rehable manager and be governed 

 by his experience ia building up the business. Experience is 

 a great help and there is no chance of success without it. 



A. 16. Learn the business and be governed by circum- 

 stances. No two men can make a success ia just the same way> 

 A man must be adapted to the business to succeed. 



A. 17. Should breed White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. They are the most popular variety and easiest to 

 breed right, as to standard requirements, less culls and more 

 specimens that can be sold at a good figure to show or breed. 



A. 19.- Pekin Ducks, White Wyandottes for roasters, 

 S. C. White Leghorns for eggs and broilers. 



A. 20. Pekin Ducks are the most hardy and best sellers, 

 with not so much risk of losses by disease and death. White 

 Wyandottes are hardy, mature quickly, fatten easily, and look 

 well dressed. Good White Leghorns lay white eggs of good 

 size, lay well and make | to \\ lbs. weight, well feathered, more 

 quickly than any other breed. 



A. 21., White Wyandottes, S. C. White Leghorns, Mam- 

 moth Pekin Ducks. 



A. 22. Pekins best for green ducks; Wyandottes best for 

 crate-fattened roasters; Leghorns best for eggs, for market and 

 squab broilers. 



BUY THE BEST BIRDS YOU CAN 



DON'T LET PRICE STAND IN THE 

 WAY— GOOD BIRDS WELL MATED 

 SAVE TIME, AND TIME IS MONEY 



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



SPECIALTY BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 9. I would buy fowls, not eggs. 



A. 10. I believe I could get started in a much more 

 satisfactory way and would get in ihe business much sooner. 

 I do not fancy starting with eggs. I want to see the birds that 

 lay the eggs and want. to know how they are mated. 



A. 11. By introducing some good, thrifty, pure-bred 

 male birds a flock of mongrels can be wonderfully improved. 



A. 12. Buy a good pen, say 8 or 9 females and one male, 

 properly mated. A pen poorly mated wiU disgust a beginner 

 the first year. Watch that point. It is in the mating. Of 

 course you must have good blood back of the breeders. 



A. 13. Buy eggs of some responsible breeder who has 



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