STARTING IN THE BUSINESS 



from a reliable breeder some good pure-bred cockerels which 

 would not require nearly as many as to buy the females. In 

 this way and by constantly introducing new blood by pure-bred 

 male birds, a good flock of farm poultry can be secured. 



A. 12. Work himself constantly to "better poultry and 

 more of it," buy nothing but the best blood, advertise, and ad- 

 vertise the best, have faith in your flock; if you do not, your 

 neighbor certainly will not and will look elsewhere. Cull almost 

 the year round, keep your flock looking well and vigorous, and 

 you will be surprised how your surplus cockerels will sell. 



A. 13. From experience, would work slow, keep but a 

 few, but the best your means would permit, do not house too 

 many in your coops or buildings, breed for constitutional vigor, 

 and breed for exhibition specimens only; this you will gain only 

 by a limited number, proper housing, and care and feeding. 

 Advertise moderately, and strive to make every sale far or near 

 a satisfied customer. Time and stock will tell. Guarantee your 

 birds in every way, or in other words, give good value for value 

 received, and success is bound to crown your efforts. Also will 

 say, do not be afraid to show your stock in good company; 

 often times we find them no better or as good, in what is called 

 the hottest company. 



A. 14. Answered in above. 



A. 15. Have buildings and poultry in accordance with 

 funds and advertise largely, using the best journals, the best of 

 stock, and good sound judgment, both with your poultry as 

 well as your customers. 



A. 16. Breed the best, cull closely for your market 

 poultry, cull almost constantly, then breed and sell only the best. 

 Advertise by all means in good journals; you can throw hard 

 earned money away no faster than by poor advertising in poor 

 journals, to say nothing of postage and time. 



A. YI. Almost any of the Plymouth Rooks or Wyan- 

 dottes, or a breed that is in big demand. 



A. 18. My reason is that a good, well known breed is 

 always in good demand, and with any article that is in good 

 demand a, good business can be done with less introducing and 

 advertising. 



A. 19. Can be answered as above, although the old re- 

 liable Barred Plymouth Rocks I believe are the leaders. 



A. 20. Because they are known the world over, are 

 beautiful fowls, are admired by everybody, are ready for market 

 at most any age, will stand confinement well when necessary, 

 are truly an American breed; others have their fancy and come 

 and go, but the old reliable Barred Plymouth Rock is in the 

 lead and are the best general purpose fowl in the world. 



A. 21. Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes. 



A. 22. Barred Plymouth Rocks, as I have said before, 

 are the old reliable for market or show room. Next to them in 

 many years experience I have found no fowl more profitable or 

 more beautiful as show birds than White Wyandottes. 



"MAKE HASTE SLOWLY" 



GET THE BEST— CULL CLOSELY— 

 STUDY STANDARD — ADVERTISE 



GUS L. HAINLINE, Lamar, Missouri 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9. I would buy fowls. 



A. 10. I would know just what type of fowl I wanted 

 and what kind of mating would produce it and get that mating; 

 while there would be a good deal of uncertainty in the hatch of 

 a large consignment of eggs. "A house built on a good rock 

 foundation will stand." 



A. 11. Would advise the buying of medium grade cock- 

 erels of some fancier that had a reputation for good fowls; and 

 unless his mongrels showed decided "Asiatic" type, I would 

 advise Wyandotte cockerels, as they are, I believe, the best 

 foragers in the world and they make the best broilers. 



A. 12. Choose his breed; buy as good a pen as he could 

 afford, or get; yard them, and raise every chick possible from 

 them; keep all pullets raised, sell off all mixed cocks and cock- 

 erels and put the pure "stock cockerels in with mixed stock; 

 mate up the best birds again and hatch their eggs and sell 

 others on market. When stocked up, get a good judge to score 

 surplus stock, advertise in the best journal published, cull 

 closely, and treat customers on the square. 



A. 13. Buy a copy of the "Standard." Choose a good 

 reliable breeder; get the best he will sell right; have him ship 

 them to a good judge for inspection; raise, all you can; make 

 haste slowly, study your fowls, advertise and sell surplus cock- 

 erels, don't let go of your good pullets. 



A. 17. Partridge Wyandottes. 



A. 18. They are the ideal fancier's fowl and their popu- 

 larity is increasing rapidly; they are as yet in a crude state and 

 will admit of wonderful development and improvement. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. They make the best broilers in the world; dress 

 very nicely with clean, yellow skin and legs; ideal shape, with 

 plump, round appearance. They are fine rustlers, healthy, bear 

 confinement, and their white plumage and altogether pretty 

 appearance would .enable one to get the highest market price 

 for them alive. 



SEE WHAT YOU ARE GETTING 



THEN YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT— 

 FOWLS BEST FOR START— START WITH 

 A FEW AND HAVE THEM ALL GOOD 



J. L. JEFFERSON, Des Plaines, 111. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 9. I would buy fowls. 



A. 10. In buying fowls, you can see what you are getting, 

 and have some jdea what to expect from them. 



A. 11. By getting pure-bred males. 



A. 12. By getting a pen of good birds for a starter and 

 then, after the first year, sell off all his mongrels. 



A. 13. By buying the best pen that can be found, in 

 other words, go to the best breeder of the variety that he wishes 

 to handle, and buy if possible the best he has, or the very ones 

 the breeder wishes to keep for his own use, regardless of the 

 price. Get few birds, but have them all good. Have them 

 resemble one another, and come as near to the Standard as 

 possible. 



A. 14. Buy the best pen his circumstances will permit; 

 if he is not a good judge of the breed, trust to the honesty of 

 the breeder. If he knows the breed, go to the breeder's yards 

 and do his own selecting. Always go to the breeder's yards if 

 possible, as there is where you will find out how his flock aver- 

 ages as a whole. 



A. 15. Buy the best pen possible regardless of every- 

 thing, but see what you are buying if possible. Perhaps a better 

 way would be to buy say three pens from three of the best 

 breeders, breed each pen separately, and then keep only the 

 birds from the pen that turned out the best, and sell off all the 

 others. Stick to this strain and this man for new blood. Ad- 

 vertise and show; the more you advertise and show the quicker 

 you will get a good paying business, but do not be afraid to 



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