STARTING IN THE BUSINESS 



A. 17. Single-Comb White Leghorns. 



A. 18. Because they are my fancy and are beautiful. 



A. 19. Single-Comb White Leghorns. 



A. 20. First: Because they are the best egg producers 

 known. If this were not true the largest egg farms in the 

 coimtry would not have them. 



Second: There is more profit in eggs for the market than 

 poultry. You can produce fifty pounds of eggs cheaper than 

 fifty pounds of poultry. The eggs will bring you in the most 

 money. 



Third: They eat about half as much as the larger breeds. 



THEY SERVE AS PATTERNS 



IF YOU START WITH FOWLS THEY SHOW YOU 

 WHAT GOOD BIRDS SHOULD BE— GET THE BEST 



MRS. CHARLES JONES, Paw Paw, 111. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS; BUFF COCHINS 

 AND GOLDEN BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 9. I would buy fowls. 



A. 10. If you buy fowls it gives you birds of the best 

 breeding, if you buy of a reliable breeder. Buy trios or breed- 

 ing pens and have them mated Up for best results. They serve 

 as patterns and show you what a good bird should be. 



A. 11. I would buy a trio and raise what good birds I 

 could and use my cockerels with my mongrels until I could 

 raise enough pure-bred fowls from my yards of good stock. 

 Sell off all the mongrels, as there is much more satisfaction in 

 raising good stock than mongrels. 



A. 12. Buy the best of the variety that suits him best. 



A. 13. I would buy the very best money would buy and 

 always breed in line, as line breeding is the only way to estabUsh 

 a strain and the only way to keep your birds at the top. 



A. 14. Buy eggs but buy from the most reliable breeders 

 and from an established line of the best breeding. 



A. 15. I would buy large breeding pens of the kind or 

 kinds that I wanted to breed from. 



A. 16. I think one or two breeding pens and some eggs 

 of the same lines of breeding. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks and Buff Cochins. 



A. 18. Because they are by all means the most popiilar 

 fowl today for the fancy as well as good utility fowls. Buff 

 Cochins are good layers, quiet and natural pets, besides showing 

 a great deal of intelligence. They are my favorites. 



A. 19. Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. Good layers, quick growth, heavy weights, great 

 foragers. 



FOR FARMER AND FANCIER 



A. 11. The farmer should select as near as possible 

 females of blocky, compact shape, of moderate size, low on legs 

 full in breast and short at back, without feathered shanks and 

 dark pin feathers. To these would mate a pure-bred male, 

 white in plumage and of the Wyandotte type, low down, short, 

 full and round, and not too heavy. The progeny should be 

 salable at any age at paying prices. The farmer ordinarily 

 considers height as size, i. e., length of leg. We believe his 

 greatest mistake in grading up a mongrel flock is due to this 

 misconception. 



A. 12. He should improve his mongrel stock by intro- 

 ducing pure-bred males and breeding to a blocky type without 

 trying to increase size too rapidly, making plumpness the prime 

 factor. He should also start viith a pair, trio or pen of pure- 

 bred stock and work up to an understanding of their good and 

 bad points by degrees; perfecting them as he progresses and 

 discarding the graded stock as the pure-breds increase to take 

 ' their place. 



A. 13. a. For early enthusiasm and quick action, buy 

 show birds, that can win and supplement these purchases from 

 time to time as the necessity demands. 



6. Should buy two pairs mated for sex; cock and pullet 

 and cockerel and hen, or he can increase the females to four in 

 each pen provided they are full or half sisters. They should be 

 as nearly as possible of standard shape and color (shape to take 

 precedence) of unquestioned line breeding and the result of six 

 or more consecutive matiugs. They should thenceforth be bred 

 in line. 



A. 14. Would put all my allotted funds for stock into 

 the best pair of line bred birds the money would buy. Would 

 prefer cockerel and pullet of ample size and development, and 

 would continue to breed them in line. Would choose the young 

 stock because of its continued usefulness only. 



A. 17. .White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Because they are decidely the most popular breed 

 or variety now before the public. Because no one as yet has 

 mastered uniformity of type, general characteristics nor per- 

 manently fixed color in entire strains, and finally, because there 

 is a gold mine in sight for the one who does. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. Because they are hardy, thrifty, early developers 

 of just the right size and shape to bring the highest market 

 price alive or dressed at any age. Because they are crowding 

 the so-called egg machines for first place, and finally because 

 in dressing, the offal is small, and their feathers, because of color 

 and texture, cover in value the cost of dressing, leaving larger 

 profits. 



A. 21. White Wyandottes. 



A. 22. Because utility and fancy are known and recog- 

 nized in this variety to a much greater extent than in any other 

 breed or variety with which I am conversant and in consequence 

 their sale is more easily effected at larger gains. 



PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS- 

 START WITH GOOD STOCK— ENCOUR- 

 AGES ENTHUSIASM AND QUICK RESULTS 



OTTO O. WILD, Benton Harbor, Michigan 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 9. I should buy fowls. 



A. 10. Fowls give you the finished product to study 

 while you are learning the breed or variety, and you can watch 

 development of the chick to maturity from the eggs the fowls 

 themselves produce. There are few beginners who become 

 totally discouraged the first season when fowls are the basis of 

 their start. 



STOCK SUREST START 



YOU GET RETURNS ONE YEAR SOONER— FAR- 

 MER SHOULD SEEK PURE-BREDS— EARLY 

 MATURITY, GOOD SIZE AND EASY FEEDERS 



MRS. H. W. HAND, White Hall, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9. The surest, quickest, and most satisfactory way 

 is to purchase a trio or pen of good birds. 



A. 10. I should prefer to begin with a few good birds 

 rather than eggs, because you get returns one year sooner. 



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