SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING' 



you can. Use your poorest quality fowls and chicks for market. 



A. 16. Take up a tried variety, one that has the qualities 

 both for the fancy and market side. 5uild cheap houses but 

 on right plans, a few at a time; add as your means will permit 

 and as your trade demands. Cull hard and market all inferior 

 birds, keeping the best for the fancy. Don't think at the start 

 that it is an easy way to get rich quick, for you will change your 

 mind; it takes work and lots of it. 



A. 17. Columbian Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Because they are the combination of the best and 

 most useful of the Asiatics on the one hand, and on the other 

 of the White Wyandottes, the most popular fowl in the world 

 This combination for market and the fancy gives as near perfec- 

 tion in an all purpose fowl as we have yet found. For hardiness, 

 quick growing and laying, they are all that can be expected; 

 for beauty, they have no equals. Their popularity is growing 

 at such a pace as has never been experienced by any fowl. 



A. 19. Columbian Wyandottes. 



A. 20. Because they have all the good qualities required 

 for market poultry. 



A. 21. Columbian Wyandottes. 



A. 22. Because I do not think I could get anything 

 better for the purpose. 



SURE WAY TO START RIGHT 



BUY BOTH STOCK AND 

 EGGS THE BEST OBTAINABLE 



E. B. THOMPSON, Amenia, N. Y. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 9. I would buy both eggs and birds. 



A. 10. Buying both eggs and stock would be a sure way 

 to get a fine start. I could raise a lot of birds from the stock I 

 bought and in addition to these raise some birds from the eggs. 

 These eggs would be from the best birds the breeder had. Birds 

 that he would not sell. You will see that having some chicks 

 from such eggs as these and having also some fine stock to breed 

 from, the beginner is in splendid shape for successful breeding. 



A. 11. I would advise buying some Barred Plymouth 

 Rock cockerels, to cross with his mongrel hens. 



A. 12. I would advise breeding pure bred Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks. The best of these the farmer could sell for breed- 

 ing purposes and the others for market purposes. 



A. 13. I would recommend buying the finest and best 



SMALL OR LARGE SCALE PLANTS 



START WITH FOWLS AND EGGS UNLESS MEANS 

 ARE LIMITED, THEN CHOOSE FOWLS ALONE 



A. OBERNDORF, Centralia, Kans. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS AND 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 

 V 



A. 9. Fowls and eggs if on a large scale. Fowls only 



if on small scale. 



A. 10. If on a large scale it would enable me to get differ- 

 ent strains and study and decide upon the best points. If on a 

 small scale the same can be done from the start to a more limited 

 extent. 



A. 11. Get pure-bred cockerels of the larger breeds and 

 at the same time a pen of one of the larger breeds, and keep them 

 separate until he has replaced the mongrels by pure-bred stock. 



A. 12. Get a pen of fancy poultry and some fancy eggs 

 and breed and raise them in separate pens. 



A. 13. Procure exhibition birds — prize winners only. 



A. 14. Buy Single-Comb White Leghorn eggs from reli- 

 able breeders. 



A. 15. Start with pens and eggs of layers, egg producers, 

 such as Single-Comb White Leghorns and fleshy birds like 

 Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 16. Same as No. 15. 



A. 17. Single-Comb White Leghorns and Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks. 



A. 18. Single-Comb White Leghorns are the best egg 

 producers and require a moderate amount of feed, are showy 

 and clean looking. Barred Plymouth Rocks are a popular 

 breed and good sellers as "springs," 



A. 19. For broilers Single-Comb White Leghorns, for 

 roasters or capons Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. Single-Comb White Leghorns can be made fit 

 for broilers in less time and with less feed than others. For 

 roasters and capons I prefer Barred Plymouth Rocks because 

 they have yellow skin and plump bodies. 



A. 21. Single-Comb White Leghorns and Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks. 



A. 22. They are attractive, egg producers and good 

 sellers. 



A SHED-ROOF COLONY HOUSE 



birds to be obtained, and be sure they are properly mated.. 

 The best birds will not breed unless mated right and too few 

 breeders seem to be experts in mating. In addition to buying: 

 the best birds I would recommend buying some eggs for hatch- 

 ing from the finest matings. I would buy at least two or three 

 pens of birds and several sittings of eggs; the best to be had 

 at any cost. 



A. 14. I would recommend bupng one or two trios or 

 pens as good as 1 could afford and a few eggs from the best. 



A. 15. Buy several pens of the very finest birds. Supple- 

 ment this with several hundred eggs — this for the fancy breeding. 



A. 16. Begin with a few fine birds for fancy breeding- 

 and with a few ordinary birds for market breeding, and enlarge 

 the flocks as capital will permit. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. This breed is the most popular and therefore in. 

 most demand and greatest money maker. 



A. 19. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



I understand that market poultrjonen breed them ' 



A. 20. 



very largely. 



A. 21. 



A. 22. 



market breeding. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



On account of their popularity for both fancy and 



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