SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



THE BEST ARE CHEAPEST 



CHEAPER IN THE END TO START WITH 

 THE BEST AND BUILD UP SLOWLY— 

 BREED FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENT 



ROSEDALE POULTRY FARM CO., 



Greenwood, Mass. 



BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 9. Fowk, from a first class breeder, supplemented 

 by eggs from same strain. 



A. 10. To secure benefit of experience of the breeder, and 

 uniformity of stock. ' 



A. 11. Purchase of males regardless of price from a first 

 class breeder, using no other males. Add some females from 

 the same strain, gradually weeding out all birds which do not 

 show the benefit of the crossing. 



A. 12. Purchase best birds obtainable from breeder who 

 has made a specialty of exhibition birds with good market 

 quaUties also. 



A. 13. Get the best, regardless of price, and faithfully 

 breed for further improvement. 



A. 14. Cheaper in the end to start with the very best, 

 and build up slowly. 



A. 15. Allow a well-estabUshed breeder to select the nec- 

 essary stock, and thus secure at once what would otherwise re- 

 quire years of experiment and disappointment. 



A. 16. Same as Nos. 12 and 14. 

 I A. 17. White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Because when given proper treatment they quick- 

 ly show improvement and thus encourage further effort on the 

 same Hne. The competition is so keen that all breeders are 

 obliged to devote their utmost energy to their work, as neglect 

 of any detail is fatal to the highest results. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. They are about the correct size to meet market 

 requirements. Thej' make a very pretty showing with their 

 yellow skin legs and plump, attractive bodies. Pin feathers do 

 not show. 



BUY MATED BIRDS 



A FINE PEN WILL GIVE A GOOD 

 START— SHOW AND ATTEND THE 

 SHOWS— "STANDARD" NECESSARY 



GEORGE H. BIE, Racine, Wis. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 9. I would buy fowls. 



A. 10. I could buy a first class male for breeding from 

 $20. to $25., mated correctly with a pen of ten females that I 

 would pay $100. for from a good reliable breeder. From this 

 pen I could get at least 500 eggs in the hatching season. I 

 could not buy that number of eggs from the same breeder much 

 less tlian I paid for my pen of birds, and I would have my pen of 

 birds for another season. 



A. 11. I would buy cockerels, either Barred Plymouth 

 Rocks or Wyandottes — ^birds that can be bought from $2. to 

 $3. each from some good breeder. Those would not be considered 

 real fine birds but would be all right for the purpose. Put in 

 one cockerel for every twelve to fifteen females in the flock. 

 If I was satisfied with results from them I would mate those 

 same males back on their own pullets the next season. Get 

 .new males the following season. 



A. 13. Buy fine pen of birds from a good breeder and have 

 him mate them. He will do much better to buy mated birds 

 for the first year or two than to depend on his own judgment for 

 mating. In the meantime get all the good reading matter he 

 can obtain on his chosen variety. Take one or more good 

 poultry journals. Get a Standard of Perfection. Send some of 

 his best birds to the shows and go there himself. If his birds 

 do not win a prize he will profit by it as he will fimd out their 

 weak points. He must be wilhng to live and learn. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. I have bred them for eighteen years. I bred 

 several other varieties for twelve years and then dropped them 

 all but the Barred Rocks. I have found them the best all round 

 purpose fowl that I have had anything to do with. There is 

 no variety of fancy poultry that receives more attention at our 

 shows. There is always a ready sale for all the good ones and 

 the culls will bring the highest market price. 



A. 19. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. They are as hardy as any fowl living and are 

 good winter layers. The young birds are fit for market at any 

 time after ten weeks old and bring the highest market price. 



ENTIRE YEAR GAINED 



•START WITH FOWLS— SAVES A YEAR IF WELL 

 MATED STOCK IS BOUGHT-BUY THE BEST 



W. D. HOLTERMAN, Fort Wayne, Ind. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 9. If I had suflaoient means to buy the very best I 

 would buy a few fowls, otherwise the best eggs that money can 

 obtain. 



A. 10. I should prefer fowls because in the first place it 

 practically means the saving or gain of an entire year in the Ufe 

 of a fancier, and if he buys a correctly mated pen of the best 

 out of a true fancier's yards, he gets a practical working know- 

 ledge of how birds should be properly mated for breeding, 

 particularly if he studies the specimens sent him very closely. 

 This, one is naturally apt to do the first year. Every fancier 

 will concede that the one knowledge absolutely necessary for 

 success is — ^proper mating. Therefore, to the beginning fancier 

 I would say: Buy birds — ^buy the best. 



A. 13. To such a one I would say, invest $50. to $200. 

 in a pair or trio of hue-bred birds, that have been bred in fine 

 for years for that one purpose — exhibition birds or show birds. 

 He should be satisfied with nothing else but the very choicest 

 specimens to be had from any one breeder. These birds should 

 be all of the same blood lines (related). Of his young stock 

 from this pair or trio he should next season select a few (remem- 

 ber, however, only a few) of the most vigorous and best pullets 

 and mate these back to their sire. Of his cockerels he should 

 only keep one — the best one — to mate back to the hen or hens 

 he purchased. The next season he should continue breeding 

 along these lines — breeding as close as possible without impairing 

 the vigor. Whenever he wishes to buy he should only buy 

 from the breeder from whom he made his original purchase. 

 Thus will he establish a line of showbirds. 



A. 14. Let this man write to the most reliable breeders 

 and fanciers of the variety he desires to keep, and obtain from 

 them prices of eggs from their most select specimens. Since the 

 advent of the trap nest every fancier can easily identify the eggs 

 from each individual female in his breeding yards. Some fanci- 

 ers refuse to make such a quotation but I would rather pay $2. 

 per egg for such eggs than eggs from the regular pens at $5. 

 per sitting. 



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