SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



spend money for advertising. Advertise all the time, and never 

 stop showing. Don't be afraid of getting beaten at a show 

 after you have made a good winning at a few shows. You must 

 expect that as no one breeder has all the good birds, you must 

 not expect to win aU the time. It won't hurt your business 

 half as much to get beaten as not to show at all. Get yovir name 

 before the people in all the ways possible. Advertise in all ways 

 that you can think of, but the poultry, jom-nals are, the "main 

 stays." 



A. 16. Buy the best pen you can afford, and go slow, 

 learn the business from the ground up, and learn it well. Don't 

 depend on some one else to raise the chicks for you, for if you 

 can't raise them or don't know how to do it, you may depend 

 on it that you can not hire some one else to raise them. Have 

 never yet seen a plant pay where the owner had to hire some 

 one to do the work, that is, do all parts of the work. You may 

 be able to hire a man to clean the houses, water the chickens, 

 etc., but what would he do when it came to running a brooder 

 and feeding the little chicks? This work should all be done by 

 yourself, if you wish to succeed.' 



A. 17. White Rocks or Wyandottes. 



A. 18. There is more demand for these two breeds than 

 any others. You will find more of them in the show room. 

 They are the best market fowl, and best layers taking the year 

 through. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. They mature the earliest of the Americans, they 

 start laying before they are six months old, they are the best 

 broilers at an earlier age, and they are very hardy. 



A. 21. White Rocks or White Wyandottes. 



A. 22. These two breeds are in as large a demand as any 

 others if not larger, for the fancy part, and they both dress 

 right for the market, both are good size for that purpose, and 

 plump out well at all ages. 



FOWLS AND EGGS 



FIFTY EGGS HATCHED OUGHT 

 TO GIVE TWO GOOD PENS 



D. F. PALMER & SON, Yorkville, 111. 



BREEDERS OF BARRED ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 9. Fowls, if I had plenty of money. 

 A. 10. Then I would know the quality of stock I was 

 going to breed from. If I was to buy eggs I would not buy less 

 than 50 and would be well pleased if I raised two pens of five 

 birds each. 



Buy large, vigorous cockerels. 



Commence by buying a few good birds or eggs 



A. 11 

 A. 12 

 and work up. 

 A. 13. 

 A. 14. 

 A. 15. 



BREED ONLY ONE VARIETY 



START OFF . CAREFULLY UNTIL 

 EXPERIENCE IS GAINED-"LEARN 

 TO CREEP BEFORE WALKING" 



DR. WILLIAM H. HUMISTON, Cleveland, O. 



WHITE VlfYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9. It is best to purchase fowls. 



A. 10. In purchasing fowls you can select nearly ideal 

 birds, standard weight or a Uttle above, and those possessing; 

 shape, color, health and vigor. Buy a pen of six or eight hens, 

 one year old, and mate them with an early hatched, full weight,, 

 vigorous cockerel. In this way you can the first season obtain 

 a good start and raise at least 100 birds. 



A. 11. Purchase a male bird for every twelve females. 

 Select over weight White Wyandotte males. 



A. 12. Keep but one variety. Get a start by securing: 

 White Wyandottes from a. winter laying strain. They make- 

 choice early broilers, excellent soft roasters, dress attractively, 

 no dark pin feathers, have yellow skin and legs. Mq,rket the- 

 culls and obtain fancy prices for the balance. 



' A. 13. Breed only one variety, and secure the stock, 

 from a successful breeder who has a reputation for square deal- 

 ing and whose stock has won at the leading shows, and is lin& 



bred. 



A. 14. It is better to start off carefully imtil experience 

 has been gained. Secure only a few, but high class birds. 



A. 15. It cannot be done successfully without practical 

 knowledge and experience.. He must purchase this by securing, 

 an honest, experienced, hard working man to take charge of the 

 business. 



A. 16. Learn to creep before walking, that is, go slowly 

 until knowledge of the business is attained. 

 A. 17. White Wyandottes. 

 Beauty and utiUty. 



One of the American breeds, Wyandottes or Rocks. 

 Early development, attractiveness when dressed. 



Buy the best you can find. 

 Buy 100 eggs of a good breeder. 

 As the good breeders go into winter quarters most 

 of them have some good bargains that could be bought at a 

 reasonable price, which if properly mated -will soon breed up 

 some choice birds. 



A. 16. Same as Nos. 14 and 15. 

 A. 17. BaiTed Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. They are very hardy and good foragers; we con- 

 sider there are no better layers. 



A. 19. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. We consider them the best in all respects. 



A. 21. Barred Plyriouth Rocks. 



A. 22. Same as No. 20. 



18. 

 19. 

 20. 



A. 



A. 



A. 

 and size. 



A. 21. White Wyandottes in country. Buff or Partridge 

 for city. 



A. 22. See answer to No. 18. 



UNDERSTAND YOUR FOWLS 



SUCCESS MORE CERTAIN WITH BIRDS YOU ADMIRE 

 G. MONROE WOOD, Woodville, N. Y. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 



A. 9. Fowls. 



A. 10. I would care for a flock of hens in a way so that 

 I would get good fertile eggs and lots of them. 



A. 11. I would buy pure-bred males of some good re- 

 Uable poultryman. In the fall I would sort out the best pullets 

 and the next spring I would mate these pullets to the same 

 cocks, their fathers, also the cockerels to their .mothers; that 

 would give you well bred stock in a little time. 



A. 12. Same as No. 11. 



A. 13. I would buy fowls or eggs, or both, from some 

 good reUable and successful fancier. 



A. 17. White Leghorns. 



A. 18. After having and taking care of a strain of poultry 



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