SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



Birds are more easily and safely transported than eggs, the 

 disappointments are fewer and the cultivation of the eye for 

 the true type begins at once. 



A. 11. He should head his flock with pure-bred cockerels 

 of one of the best market varieties, that is, the close-built, 

 round or plump varieties. The fanner should think of early 

 maturity, good size, and easy feeders. The White Wyandottes 

 answer all these requirements. 



A. 12. He should buy either eggs from a reliable breeder, 

 or a pen of fowls properly mated, and from the offspring sell all 

 culls and inferior cockerels for market, retaining inferior pullets 

 for laying purposes, and vismg his select birds to breed from 

 for himself and his customers. 



A. 13. Purchase a pen of birds conforming as nearly to 

 the Standard as possible. Buy them of some rehable breeder 

 who has a well established strain, that shows the evidence of 

 careful, continuous breeding to correct type and color. Invest 

 your money in a few fine specimens rather than in a large number 

 of inferior ones. Select the variety that will give you size, 

 plumpness, eggs, early maturity, and the variety th^t you think 

 will give you the greatest number of customers. 



A. 14. I should advise him to go slow. Adopt one 

 variety only, begin on a small scale, and as his experience grows, 

 and his business increases, invest the profits in more equipment 

 and better stock. A trio of good birds in one pen, carefully 

 handled, is more profitable than several pens of inferior stock. 



A. 17. I should select but one variety, and that would 

 be the White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. They are an all purpose fowl. They are of good 

 size, are plump, and in marketable condition at all ages after 

 six weeks. They are easy keepers, producing more pounds on 

 less feed than any other variety. They are good rangers, though 

 not bad flyers, and are heavy producers of large brown eggs, 

 both winter and summer. They are the best and gentlest of 

 mothers, and are hardy and vigorous. The eggs are sought by 

 the broiler plants, the chicks by the marketmen, and the exhibi- 

 tion specimens by the greatest number of fanciers, of any variety 

 of the day. Withal they are the most popular, the most profit- 

 able and the most beautiful of all chicken kind. 



BETTER FLOCK FROM STOCK 



ON SMALL SCALE START WITH 

 STOCK; ON LARGE SCALE BUY EGGS 



R. H. CRANDALL, Worth, Mich. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS; 



WHITE WYANDOTTES. PEKIN DUCKS, TOULOUSE 



GEESE AND BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 9. If starting on a small scale I would buy stock; 

 large scale, good eggs. 



A. 10. On a small scale you could raise a better flock 

 from good stock than from eggs bought. Eggs are much the 

 cheaper way to make a start on a large scale, as you can get a 

 lot of stock out in a few weeks in the spring. 



A. 11. I would advise him to buy good pure-bred White 

 Wyandotte cockerels, which wiU better both his egg production 

 and market stock. In my experience the White Wyandottes 

 make the best market bird of any breed and are the nearest to 

 a general purpose fowl. 



A. 12. Breed Leghorns, as they are a source of profit 

 from the time the pullets are large enough to lay until you have 

 found sale for them. 



A. 14. Breed Leghorns, because they are the greatest 

 egg producers if you get stock that has been bred with these 



points in view. They will la,y more eggs for amount of feed con- 

 sumed than any other known breed and there is a large demand 

 for them as egg producers and breeders at from $1. up. 



A. 15. Leghorns for fancy and eggs. White Wyandottes 

 for market with Pekin ducks also, it you are near some good 

 market; 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. They have yellow flesh and legs with white plu- 

 mage and no dark pin feathers to mar the appearance of dressed 

 birds, always round and plump from a broiler to maturity. 

 Mature early and are not long-bodied and leggy Hke the Rocks. 



FOWLS FIRST, THEN EGGS 



FOWLS MOST ECONOMICAL PURCHASE, 

 BUT IT PAYS NO BUY EGGS— WORK 

 AND WAIT, SUCCESSS WILL COME 



W. W. KULP, Pottstown, Pa. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE CQMB WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS; 



WHITE WYANDOTTES; BUFF AND BARRED ROCKS 



AND PEKIN DUCKS 



A. 9. I would buy both fowls and eggs. Fowls first 

 then eggs. 



A. 10. I would buy fowls because you can produce more 

 eggs cheaper than you can buy them for the same amount in- 

 vested. I would buy some eggs too, for you can get eggs of 

 fowls that breeders will not sell, thereby getting a line of blood 

 that wiU be of value in your breeding operations. I have 

 bought eggs for twenty years and it has paid me. 



A. 11. I would buy eggs of the breed I wished to have. 

 Keep all the best males two years. Then buy eggs again of a 

 strain that would suit -well with that bought first. This way he 

 wiU soon have them much hke the standard-bred stock he is 

 using. But never keep one of the half or three-quarter bloods 

 for they will not produce uniform quality of stock hke the pure 

 bloods. Or cockerels can be bought for their vigor, size and 

 shape. Either plan wiU work, only if eggs are bought don't 

 expect to raise five nice cockerels from each sitting. If you get 

 two nice cockerels from a sitting you will have them at a low 

 price. 



A. 12. To sell fancy poultry, absolutely pure eggs or 

 stock must be bred. I would buy some eggs and raise chicks. 

 If I did not have enough in the faU I would purchase females 

 and fill the pens. Select a breed you like and stick to it, do 

 not change unless you are sure you have made a mistake. Take 

 the advice of a poultryman of years of experience. He knows 

 and also can tell you where you are planning to do too much 

 and what obstacles you will be Ukely to strike. 



A. 13. Let him visit the breeder he wishes to buy of and 

 pay him. for as good as he will spare, and pay him for some of 

 his knowledge too. He knows and can help you. I have known 

 men go to a place and want the very best at a low value. When 

 they could not be bought they would pick out other nice looking 

 ones that the breeder knew were not what were wanted, yet 

 would let them have them to pay for their trying to get the best 

 for half their value. 



A. 14. Buy as many and as good as his money will pay 

 for, and work and wait for the rest. Buy a few good birds and 

 breed them. Build up the business until you are in the other 

 class, that is, with much money. It can and is being done all 

 the time, but the person must not expect to spend much on him 

 or herself during the building-up time. 



A. 15. First learn the business with some one who 

 knows how. No other way will work, for no man can get a 



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