SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



sonally I have bred nearly all varieties starting with the Barred 

 Plymouth Rocks and each of the varieties which I have bred, I 

 have tested along with the Barred Rocks. The first variety 

 that I found that was their equal was the Partridge Wyandotte, 

 and then the Columbian. Brahmas consumed more food and 

 laid less eggs, but were a splendid table fowl. They were not 

 as profitable as the Barred Rocks, so I discarded them. Leg- 

 horns are handsome and just about equal to the Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rocks as layers, but are too small to be profitable as 

 table fowls. Hamburgs are out of it in every way, excepting 

 that they are proud and pretty. White Plymouth Rocks and 

 White Wyandottes fell a httle below the Barred Rocks in weight 

 and were not quite as good layers. Of course, I only give this 

 as my experience and it is my reason for breeding the varieties 

 that I do. 



GOOD START FOR LITTLE MONEY 



MAY BE HAD BY BUYING EGGS-BUY 

 THE BEST FROM SPECIAL MATINGS 



C. BRICAULT, M. D. V., Andover, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 9. Eggs. 



A. 10. In buying eggs, one with limited means can get a 

 much better start than he would buying stock, for breeders will 

 sell eggs from their best matings, and a, very good start can be 

 had for httle money. 



A. 11. By buying eggs for hatching from breeders who 

 make it a point to breed for utiUty purposes; then gradually 

 discard the mongrels and keep only the pure-breds. The best 



THREE COMPARTMENT FOOD HOPPER 



way would be to sell off every mongrel and invest in eggs for 

 hatching of the breed chosen. 



A. 12. Sell all the stock of mongrels now on the farm, 

 and buy eggs for hatching from both the breeder who breeds 

 exhibition stock and the one who breeds for market points, 

 eggs and meat. 



A. 13. Buy the best specimens of the chosen breed that 

 breeders can be induced to sell. Breed from these only, and cull 

 down to the best birds every year. 



A. 14. Buy eggs from special matings. Get an experi- 



enced breeder the first year to select the best birds for breeders; 

 breed only from the best specimens. 



A. 15. Buy largely of the highest quaUty birds, both for 

 fancy and market poultry. 



A. 16. Buy eggs from special matings and from the best 

 pens of breeders in both fancy and market poultry. 



A. 17. White Wyandottes. 



A. 18. Because they are the best for layers and market 

 poultry, easy to breed to standard requirements, and one of 

 the most popular of breeds, if not the most popular. 



A. 19. White Wyandottes. 



A. 20. Because they are excellent layers, make the best 

 broilers and look well as dressed poultry. As yearhng hens 

 they do not take on too much fat, as others do. 



A. 21. White Wyandottes. ^ 



A. 22. Because they combine the qualities which make 

 an ideal fancy and market fowl. 



DON'T RAISE TOO MANY 



KEEP ONLY THOSE WHICH GIVE 

 PROMISE OF DEVELOPING INTO EXTRA 

 NICE, THRIFTY, VIGOROUS BIRDS 



BENJAMIN H. BAKER, Owensboro, Ky. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



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



A. 10. I would go to a breeder of my favorite variety 

 whom I knew to be progressive, and buy a few of the best birds 

 that he would sell and then contract with him for eggs from 

 birds bred in line with the ones that I had purchased. By this 

 method one would be surer of getting a good foundation and I 

 would consider it of the greatest importance in establishing a 

 fine of breeding. 



A. 11. I think the best method would be to buy cock- 

 erels from some good rehable breeder every year, always insist- 

 ing on birds of good size and plenty of vigor. By this method 

 one could easily improve his females and dispose of his cock- 

 erels and surplus pullets at a much better price than usual. 

 By this method he would increase the size of his hens and when 

 through with them they would bring nearly double what the 

 mongrels ordinarily do. 



A. 12. I think it would be weU for him to select some 

 popular variety that has good market quaUties, not try to raise 

 too many and keep only those which give promise of developing 

 into extra nice, thrifty, vigorous birds. Show at his most con- 

 venient local show and build up a trade that he can hold. The 

 first few years do not ask the prices that the foremost breeders 

 get, but be liberal with his customers and they will soon come 

 "to beheve in him.'' 



A. 13. The beginner with ample funds can well afford to 

 get the best birds he can obtain. He would naturally want to 

 try to raise some birds himself; but I think it would be well for 

 him to select some good locality in the country and offer the 

 farmer's wives a premium above the market price to raise a 

 few choice birds for him — ^he to furnish the eggs from his yards. 

 By this method he is most certain to get some extra good birds 

 even if he is not successful with his own flocks. 



A. 14. To this person the road to eminent success is 

 hkely to be quite long with many turns in it. H-e had better 

 go a httle slowly for a while or he will become disheartened and 

 give up. I would advise him to secure the confidence of some 

 good rehable breeder, buy eggs from him each season, and with 

 proper care in a few years he would likely have a good sized 

 flock of excellent birds. 



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