STARTING IN THE BUSINESS 



A. 15. This man could well afford to buy both stock 

 and eggs. For his exhibition poultry, however, I should advise 

 him by all means to start with stock — the best he can obtain. 

 He should work the market poultry end of the business vigor- 

 ously from the beginning and should take his time to establish 

 himself firmly in the fancy business. If he does this thoroughly, 

 the fancy business will bring in more money in the end than the 

 market poultry. 



A. 16. Let him do as above suggested with this differ- 

 ence, that the first year or two he combine either gardening or 

 small fruit raising with the poultry business, so that he will have 

 sufficient fimds to carry him through to success. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. Because in the first place they are probably the 

 most difficult of all varieties to breed true to their standard 

 requirements and this, therefore, opens a wide field for the 

 fancier who succeeds in breeding the choicest. That this is true 

 is shown by the average high prices paid for fancy Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks. Undoubtedly the average price paid for birds of 

 this variety is higher than that paid for any others. They also 

 form the center of attraction in the showroom. They are not 

 so nervous and ffighty as some of the smaller breeds nor so 

 heavy and clumsy as some of the larger. They form a happy 

 medium in their character. 



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SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 9. I would buy the finest eggs that money could buy 

 from two line-bred strains, and breed from birds obtained from 

 them, and get a strain of my. own. 



A. 10. My reasons for so doing are, I could get a better 

 grade of stock after once hatched and raised than I could get 

 for five times what the finest eggs would cost. 



A. 11. The quickest and best way for a farmer to improve 

 his flock of mongrels is to buy the best cook or cockerel he can 

 afford and breed from him, and add new blood every year in 

 this way, or buy good eggs and hatch his own breeding cockerels. 



A. 12. If he wished to start at once I would advise him 

 to buy a trio or pen of the best stock he could afford. 



A. 13. Buy a place of 10 or 20 acres of good gravel soil, 

 and buy a few choice birds, say 15 to 25 fowls of a strain that 

 has been line-bred for years. Start on a small scale and learn 

 how to breed exhibition specimens, and gradually work his 

 way up. 



A. 14. Lease a place of 5, 10 oi; 20 acres of good gravel 

 soil for three, five or ten years, and build temporary poultry 

 houses costing not to exceed $1. per fowl. Buy a good grade of 

 eggs from two line-bred strains of fowls and start a strain of his 

 own. 



A. 15. Buy a place of 20 to 25 acres ,of good gravel soil 

 near a good market, and buy the best stock and eggs that he can 

 afford. Build poultry houses costing not to exceed $1. per head. 

 Start in gradually and add to the flock each season as the busi- 

 ness increases. Be a good advertiser in the leading poultry 

 journals. 



A. 16. Buy a farm of 20 to 50 acres of good gravel soil, 

 if not, lease a farm of 20 to 50 acres for three, five or ten years, 

 and build houses costing not to exceed $1. per head. Start with 

 as good pure-bred stock and eggs as he can afford. Continue 

 as advised in No. 15. 



A. 17. Single-Comb White Leghorns. 



A. 18. First: They are the most showy and finest exhi- 

 bition fowls in existence. Second: As great layers of pure 

 white eggs they are second to none. Third: They are one of 

 the hardiest varieties and are easiest to raise of any breed. 



A. 19. The Columbian Wyandottes. 



A. 20. They are next to the Leghorn in hardiness, and 

 in their quick growth, for an excellent table fowl they have no 

 superior. 



A. 21. Columbian Wyandottes or Barred Plymouth 

 Rocks. 



A. 22. There is a good demand for either breed as a fancy 

 fowl, and for market neither can be excelled. 



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BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS; BUFF AND 

 PARTRIDGE COCHINS 



A. 9. Eggs. 



A. 10. From eggs hatched I could judge of the breeder's 

 stock as a value to start a flock. If they would not reasonably 

 reproduce, should. discard them as a flock foundation. 



A. 11. Barred Rock males. From the fact that Barred 

 Rock blood immediately takes effect iri both color and better 

 size. Besides my long observation is that Barred Rocks are the 

 ideal market fowl — both dead and aUve. 



A. 12. My experience has been largely along this line and 

 I have used Barred Rocks for this reason. At the age of broilers 

 you can almost invariably pick out your culls if any, and obtain 

 as much for them at this young age and thus save half your teed 

 bills. For combining fancy and market there is no breed as 

 profitable as the Barred Rocks. 



A. 13. Buy a choice pen or pens properly mated by the 

 seller to produce immediate results, and advise the party of 

 whom purchased so he will know exactly what you wish to do. 



A. 14. Purchase a small pen to satisfy his immediate 

 desires in the fancy line, and at the same time to give him an 

 idea of what his chosen breed is Uke, and then stock up later 

 on with eggs, as a hundred eggs would give him quite a flock. 



A. 15. Go slow the first year so as to get some knowledge. 

 _ No successful business man ever made a success at once of a 

 business he had no knowledge of. Take all other lines of busi- 

 ness as an example. They have all come up gradually. 



A. 16. About the same as No. 15. 



A. 17. Strictly fancy, would take Partridge Cochins. 



A. 18. The percentage of culls is less. There is always a 

 great demand for all the pullets you can possibly raise,and then 

 the average demand for males will keep you closely cleaned up 

 all the time. Besides I have always been able to get better 

 prices for this breed. They are the easiest of all the large breeds 

 to raise by artificial methods. 



A. 19. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. With this breed you can almost invariably select 

 your poorest specimens at broiler age and thus avoid feeding so 

 long — increasing the profit by this means. Further, most 

 markets invariably pay a higher price for Barred Rocks, as they 

 go on the market cleaner, their plumage not showing the dirt 

 from their trip to market, like most other breeds. They are 

 more active than their closest competitors, (the Wyandottes), 



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