SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



all the young birds until the required number is reached. Don't 

 sell what you can't replace for the money, no matter how flatter- 

 ing the offer. 



A. 16. Same as answer to No. 11, but buy both eggs and 

 a good pen and follow advice given in answer to No. 15. 



A. 17. White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Popular, good sellers, good mothers, and market 

 birds for the farmer, or for the one wishing to keep only a few 

 birds good broilers and roasters, and will lay eggs in winter if 

 properly bred, hatched and cared for. Attractive in appearance, 

 stand confinement, are not flyers, will stand severe cold, and 

 when ready to sell at market prices, they bring good prices. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. Same as answer to No. 18. 



VISIT THE SHOWS AND BREEDERS 



STUDY YOUR CHOSEN VARIETY— ONE IS ENOUGH- 

 KEEP ONLY THE BEST— MARKET THE BALANCE 



GEORGE A. BARROWS, Groton, N. Y. 



SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 9. .1 should buy fowls. 



A. 10. With my present knowledge I believe that I 

 could buy fowls that would suit me and therefore get a quicker 

 start than I could with eggs and be more certain of having 

 good stock. 



A. 11. My advice would be to discard the mongrels 

 entirely and start with pure-bred stock. 



A. 12. I would advise the purchase of a pen of the very 

 best birds that could be found of some one of the large breeds. 

 If the object is to sell fancy poultry, my advice is to buy the 

 very best birds that can be found regardless of cost. 



A. 13. If I were a beginner with ample funds the first 

 thing I should do would be to decide on what one breed (not 

 several) I most desired and why. Second: I would then study 

 that breed from the "Standard" and would visit several shows 

 and make it a point to study the variety I desired. 



Third: I should then visit several of the reUable breeders 

 of my chosen variety and if possible take a competent judge 

 with me. 



Fourth: I should buy a few of the best specimens that I 

 could find regardless of cost, but in buying I should buy from 

 the flock that was the best as a whole, and not from the flock 

 that had a few fine specimens but as a whole was inferior. 



■ Fifth: After buying I should make that variety a constant 

 study. ' " 



A. 14. The beginner without much money would have to 

 study his chosen variety but probably visit less shows, less 

 breeders and do without a judge. He would do well to pick 

 out the breeder that he had the most confidence in and then 

 trust him to furnish him some of his very best eggs or a few 

 birds. I think a few eggs would be the best and then let him 

 study the birds as they grow up. 



A. 15. I should advise one variety for both fancy and 

 market, and with ample funds would purchase as many birds 

 as I desired of one of the large varieties, all good stock. As I 

 bred them year by year I should keep only the best from 

 which to sell fancy birds and market the balance. 



A. 16. The beginner with moderate means would prob- 

 ably do better to purchase eggs of some large variety, buying 

 only as many as his money will care for, feed, and house after 

 hatched. Then as his sales of eggs and market poultry and 

 fancy stock come along he can enlarge his business. 



A. 17. White Leghorns. 



A. 18. I believe S. C. White Leghorns to be the best 

 breed for laying purposes, also to be the most popular breed 

 of heavy layers of large white eggs. 



A. 19. Probably White Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. First: I have taken a fancy to this particulaJ 

 variety of large fowls. 



Second: They are among the most popular breeds. 



A. 21. White Rocks or White Wyandottes. 



A. 22. Simply a Uking for these kinds. 



START WITH WELL MATED FOWLS 



THEN CAN SEE AND KNOW 

 QUALITY— RAISE PURE-BREDS 



H. H. FIKE, Libertyville, Illinois. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9. Fowls by all means. 



A. 10. Could see the quality of fowls and know what 1 

 had. If I bought eggs they might be from a dozen different 

 pens of stock not mated properly, and it would take me years 

 to breed up. 



A. 11. Sell off all mongrel stock, and raise full blood- 

 White Wyandottes. 



A. 12. Same answer as No. 11. SelUng the culls for 

 market poultry. 



A. 13. Buy birds from a known breeder, and pay at 

 least $25. to $50. per bird. 



A. 14. Buy just as good birds. If compelled to, start 

 with one pair. 



'A. 15. The two don't go together on a large scale; fancy 

 and market cannot be combined and run on a large scale pro- 

 fitably. 



A. 16. Don't start at all. 



A. 17. White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Because they are as salable as twenty dollar gold 

 pieces. The demand is far greater than the supply for top 

 notchers. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. Can be brought to broiler age sooner than any 

 other breed, their yellow skin and legs commanding, highest 

 market price. 



GET A GOOD FOUNDATION 



WORK CONSTANTLY FOR BETTER POUL- 

 TRY AND MORE OF IT— HAVE FAITH IN 

 YOUR FLOCK— CULL THE YEAR ROUND 



WILLIAM H. ROBINSON, La Fayette, Ind. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND 

 WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 9. I would buy fowls, a few, and the best. 



A. 10. With eggs you cannot see what your stock is 

 until matured; when buying stock you can buy on approval 

 from most any rehable breeder and if not satisfactory it may be 

 returned for good stock or money refunded. When starting 

 with the fowls you have a good foundation to begin with, and 

 can see what your coming youngsters, if properly cared for, 

 will develop into when matured. 



A. 11. Would cull quite severely to my best stock in one 

 and two-year-old females, throwing out all male birds, and buy 



30 



