SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



GOOD START THE WHOLE THING 



LESS CHANCE OF DISCOURAGEMENT BEGIN- 

 NING WITH FOWLS— GET THE BEST— DON'T 

 TIE UP TOO MUCH MONEY IN BUILDINGS 



C. L. PENSYL, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 9. Buy fowls to start with. 



A. 10. Because you have the birds to start with, — have 

 value for some of your money. Eggs, you run so many chances 

 by shipping them. You may not get a good hatch. If you have 

 a few birds to begin with you can give more attention to the 

 eggs and get a far better start. The beginner may pay $5. for 

 a sitting of 13 eggs, put them under a hen and hkely have her 

 leave the nest and discourage him right in the start. If he buys 

 a trio of birds I consider he won't get discouraged so quick, — 

 that was my experience. 



A. 11. I would advise the farmer if he wishes to im- 

 prove his flock to buy some good cockerels of either the 

 Rocks or Wyandottes and breed them with his mongrels. Then 

 let him select his best every year and cull his breeding stock 

 closely. Every second year or so add a couple new breeding 

 cockerels. I fully beheve in this way he can build up a fine 

 strain for market purposes. 



A. 12. If he has no fancy stock' would advise him to buy 

 a pen of pure-breds, mated for fancy stock, of some good re- 

 liable breeder. In a short time if he takes an interest in his 

 birds he can have a good flock. Would advise him to advertise 

 his stock in some reliable poultry journal. Keep only one breed 

 and cull closely every year. He will soon be realizing a fancy 

 profit above the ordinary fowl. 



A. 13. Buy a pen of the best he can afford to buy, mated 

 up for exhibition. Be sure that he is dealing with a good 

 reliable breeder, one that will use him all right. If he wishes to 

 get right up on top with his birds, would advise him to buy 

 some winning male birds or winning pen at some large show. 

 Then he can advertise young stock bred by or from say New 

 York, Boston, or Chicago winners. If he is successful in raising 

 stock I am sure he will have no trouble in selling same. 



A. 14. I would advise to buy only two birds if he hasn't 

 much money — ^the best be can afford to buy. Cull his breeders 

 very close each season and use nothing but the best for breeders. 

 If careful, in a couple of years, he will have a good fair start 

 and can learn as he goes along. Possibly he could get a start 

 by buying eggs if he has good luck. 



A. 15. Start with Rocks or Wyandottes — nothing but 

 the best, and learn as he grows in the business. Read some 

 good reliable poultry journal and then use his own ideas along 

 with some of the others. The birds he can't sell for fancy he 

 can readily sell for market poultry. Especially for a beginner 

 I would advise to go a little slow at first unless he has lots of 

 money, then would advise him to employ some good experi- 

 enced man. 



A. 16. Buy the best stock Rocks and Wyandottes his 

 money will afford. Don't put too much money in buildings. 

 Have them built for warmth but not to look at. After business 

 gets to paying put on the finishing touches. Too many get a 

 lot of money tied up in buildings when their means are limited, 

 where they should use it for birds to start with. A good start 

 is the whole thing. 



A. 17. Buff Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. Because I have tried a great many other breeds 

 and found none that I have as much satisfaction in as in the 

 Buff Rooks. They have good size, are easily raised. Breed 

 pretty true to type and color if mated properly, and are fine 



table fowls. Their beautiful shade of golden buff color is always 

 noticed by the fancier at first sight in breeding yard or show 

 room. Single birds of this breed have sold as high as seyeral 

 •hundred dollars each, and I always find sale for all I can raise 

 at good fancy prices. 



A. 19. White or Buff Rocks or White Wyandottes would 

 be my choice. 



A. 20. Because they have the size, nice yellow legs and 

 skin, and are free from dark pin feathers, which makes them 

 very salable. Their meat is juicy and fine flavored. 



A. 21. Rocks and Wyandottes. 



A. 22. Because they have the size for market fowls and 

 then for fancy. They bring really the highest prices at the big 

 shows. 



BREED FROM GOOD LAYERS 



TRAP NESTS ADVISED— DON'T PAY TO BREED 

 POOR EGG PRODUCERS— PURE-BREDS BEST 



HARMON BRADSHAW, Lebanon, Indiana 



SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 9. Stock by all means, if only a trio. 



A. 10. First: Because you can see just what you have 

 to breed from and will know, in a measure, what the offspring 

 will be. 



Second: Because you can raise more good birds from a 

 good trio than from six sittings of the best eggs you could buy. 



A. 11. Would advise him to purchase a few first class 

 birds and pen to themselves, using trap nests.- Get a few birds 

 from a hen that you know is a good layer and build your 



AN ENGLISH FATTENING SHED 



flock from them. It does not pay to breed from a poor egg pro- 

 ducer even though she is a blue ribbon winner. 



A. 12. Same as No. 1 1. Also you can raise prize winners 

 as well as market fowls with no more expense, if you start right. 

 There are always market fowls among the pure-breds. 



A. 13. Start with two small pens (not to exceed six 

 females and a male) and learn by experience how to breed and 

 care for them. Use trap nests so you will know which hen 

 produced the winner and which hen is the good layer. 



A. 14. Spend what he can for birds and start as in 

 answer No. 13. 



A. 15. Same as No. 13 unless he employs a man with 

 experience to help him. 



A. 16. Same as Nos. 13 and 14. 



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