SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



easier to grow by artificial methods, as they are the last to die 

 in a mixed flock of youngsters in brooders if conditions have 

 not been the best for their growth. 



THE BEST IS BEST 



GO TO REPUTABLE BREEDtR AND BUY BEST HE 

 WILL SELL— LEARN TO MATE FOR BEST RESULTS 



DR. O. P. BENNETT, Mazon, 111. 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 9. I would buy both. 



A. 10. I would buy the best pen of fowls I could get in 

 order to learn what constitutes a good fowl, also to learn the 

 proper way to mate them. I would buy eggs from the best 

 breeder and from his best birds in order to get a chance for the 

 best chicks. 



A. 11. Buy as many good fowls as possible, keeping their 

 produce and gradually getting rid of the mongrels. 



A. 12. Sell all his old stock, buy eggs and as many 

 breeders as possible. Increase and better his flock from these. 



A. 13. Buy a pen or two of the very best fowls possible 

 from the best breeder. Also buy the best eggs from same 

 breeder. 



A. 14. Begin as above but only on a smaller scale. 



A. 15. Let a reputable and capable breeder fit him out 

 with a part of what he needs and then let him learn from these. 

 By the time he has the proper experience he will have a large 

 enough flock of his own. 



A. 16. Same as No. 15, but on a smaller scale. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. I believe them to be the most practical and 

 profitable fowl on the market. They are by far the best fowl 

 for the farmer, market poultryman and for the fancier. 



THE FARMER'S MISTAKE 



MONGRELS, MIXED BLOOD AND CROSSES NOT DE- 

 SIRABLE— PURE-BREDS ARE BEST— KEEP ONE BREED 



F. J. WEHRMEYER, Benton Harbor, Mich. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9 I would buy both eggs and stock. 



A. 10. Because I, like the majority, could not afford to 

 buy many high class birds, hence I should buy birds to the 

 extent of my ability financially, and then buy eggs from the same 

 breeder. Almost everybody could buy a few nice birds; if not 

 50 or 25, then a pen or trio. This increases the interest and 

 gives one a few eggs to set, and above all, a few females and male 

 to use in mating the next season with the choicest chicks raised 

 from the eggs bought, and in this way start a "line" in breeding. 

 Of course, if I did not understand what was meant by "line- 

 breeding" I should immediately ask and learn; this being es- 

 sential. 



A. 11. I do not believe in mongrels of any sort on a place 

 for farmers or others. I am a farmer as well as a breeder of 

 poultry. I am sorry to say that entirely too many farmers of 

 my acquaintance labor under the wrong impression that mixed 

 blood, or stock, gives better results. No one has ever advanced 

 a sound reason to substantiate this. It is all guess work and 

 imagination. Pure-bred fowls thrive just as well, lay just as 

 many eggs, are just as healthy, vigorous and thrifty as any 

 mongrel ever dared to be. All that is necessary is for the farmer 



to occasionally buy a new male or two to place with his flock- 

 This is true even with mongrels. Then why keep moijgrels? 

 They cost us no less to keep. Why not keep some one breed and 

 let this be pure? When it comes to a, question of marketing, 

 especially alive, aU dealers will tell you that a coop or crate 

 of chickens all one color sells better than a mixed lot. All 

 farmers know that pure-bred stock produces the best offspring — 

 colts, shoats, calves, etc., and certainly poultry. Then why 

 breed mongrels? Every farmer, I don't care where he is, rich or 

 poor, appreciates nice looking animals around the farm. 



With horses, cows, hogs, etc., this question of pure-bred 

 stock is usually a difficult one for the average farmer. When it 

 is a question of chickens, what an easy matter to keep a pure- 

 bred fiock. Eggs from pure stock are so cheap and so easy to 

 get. Let your broody mongrels hatch and mother them, they'll 

 thrive and grow as plump and fat as any mongrel chick. The , 

 next season buy a year-old cock bird of the same breed and mate 

 him to your pullets. Gradually sell off your mongrel stock, and 

 in just a short time the mongrels on your farm will be a thing of 

 the past. Nothing — absolutely nothing — adds so much interest 

 to a farm place as a beautiful flock of some one breed of chickens. 

 Visitors admire them — the help around the place treat them 

 with more respect (which usually means a little better care and 

 better profits), the wife enjoys helping with the work among 

 them and so do the boys and girls. 



A TRIO OF STANDARDBRED WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 12. Start with some one breed of pure-bred stock, 

 preferably White Wyandottes, the best that his purse will stand, 

 gradually increasing the flock or flocks. Read good poultry 

 journals. Show a few choice birds at different convenient 

 poultry shows. Begin advertising in a reUable poultry journal. 

 By raising a quantity there will be lots of nice plump market 

 stock at top prices and some choice ones for breeding and exhi- 

 bition purposes, or to supply others with eggs for hatching. 



A. 13. Personally visit several well known fanciers or 

 breeders of the variety he has chosen, and there buy it possible 

 the best fowls that money will obtain, or visit and buy at some 

 poultry show. The breeder thus selling will gladly assist him 

 from time to time over any difficult problems in mating, etc., until 

 he understands it better, for the average poultry fancier is a 

 jolly good fellow and appreciates the fact that the "fancy" will 

 never be overdone and always welcomes a new arrival. Then 

 hatch and raise. Show the best you have at some exhibition — 

 never mind whether you win or not, show the best you have 

 anyhow. Affiliate with poultry clubs, join your local club, if 

 any. Read good poultry journals and books and as soon as 



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