STARTING IN THE BUSINESS 



culls on market, keeping the best specimens for the following 

 year, and buy a good xockerel to mate with the pullets kept. 



A. 13. I would buy the best male and two females that 

 I could get of the variety I wished to breed. Have them prop- 

 erly mated to produce the desired results. 



A. 14. Visit one of the best breeders, having the variety 

 desired. Purchase three or four good breeding-pens ..properly 

 mated to produce exhibition specimens, but from the same 

 strain. Would never put much money in buildings until I was 

 thoroughly established in the fancy. 



A. 15. I would want to build large, roomy buildings, 

 large yards, and have, them well scattered; then buy the best 

 birds possible to stock the buildings and yards. 



A. 16. Would start at the bottom of the ladder, by buy- 

 ing the best birds for breeders within my means; not expend 

 much on the buildings at the start, and then increase as the 

 market justifies. 



A. 17. Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. There is no other breed on earth that has the 

 same keen competition in the show room. It is competition 

 that makes a great demand for high quality specimens at big 

 prices. The Barred Plymouth Rock is the most popular breed 

 among the farmers, making a good demand for aU off-colored 

 specimens. They are as good layers as any large breed, and sell 

 well on the market as table fowls. 



THE GREATEST DEMAND 



can buy eggs from a breeder's best pens even though he cannot 

 buy the birds, thereby getting the right kind for his foundation 

 stock. 



A. 15. Buy the fowls with which to start, selecting a 

 variety that are good layers, of good size and at the same time 

 that are in popular demand for fancy purposes. 



A. 16. My answer to question No. 15 also answers this 

 one, with the exception that I would advise this beginner to 

 buy eggs instead of fowls with which to start. 



A. 17. White Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 18. In raising or offering anything to sell, wtiether it 

 be fancy poultry or any of the necessities of life, it is to your 

 interest from a money-making standpoint to raise or offer for 

 sale whatever is in the greatest demand and can be sold for 

 prices that are profitable to the producer. . And when it is a 

 fact that for the past ten years the White Plymouth Rocks have 

 been in greater demand and have been sold at higher prices 

 than any other variety, and that they are easier to breed to 

 standard requirements than any other variety, it is certainly 

 convincing to the most skeptical, person contemplating starting 

 in the poultry business that this is the best variety that he can 

 breed. 



A. 19. White Plymouth Rocks. 



A. 20. For layers, they are excelled by no other variety, 

 being good winter as well as summer layers, and their large size, 

 their quick maturing qualities, their pure-white plumage, and 

 their rich yellow skin and legs make them an ideal market fowl. 



AT PRICES PROFITABLE TO PRODUCER INDICATES 

 THE BEST FROM MONEY-MAKING STAND POINT 



J. T. THOMPSON, Hope, Indiana 



BREEDER OF WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND MAMMOTH 

 BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 9. I would buy either the fowls or eggs. 



A. 10. If I had a reasonable amount to invest I would 

 buy the fowls, but if my means were limited I would buy eggs, 

 for while it takes a little more time to start withleggs, it is never- 

 theless much the cheapest way to start. 



A. 11. 'I would advise him to buy a vigorous male of the 

 variety that he prefers to mate with his mongrels, using good 

 judgment of course; in selecting the male. If he wants to in- 

 crease the size of his stock, not caring anything about improving 

 the egg yield, I would advise him to get a male of any of the 

 large varieties, while if he wants to improve the laying qualities 

 of his flock, and at the same time raise stock that is good size, 

 and will bring a good price on the market, I would advise getting 

 a male of an American variety. 



A. 12. The farmer that wishes to make more money 

 from poultry, from a fancy as well as from a market standpoint, 

 must select a breed or variety that are good layers, good size, 

 will mature quickly, and at the same time are popular with the 

 fanciers of the country, which insures him a good demand for 

 all the best specimens he raises each season, and at good prices. 



A. 13. I would advise hirii to buy from a reliable breeder 

 some of his best specimens, buying only a few of the most select. 

 From the same breeder I would buy each season a few eggs from 

 his very best pens. By mating the best birds raised from his 

 eggs with the best ones that you raised from your matings you 

 would not be breeding them too close, and at the same time 

 keeping your flock free from any foreign blood. Not only that, 

 but by buying a few eggs from his best prais each season, you 

 certainly stand as good a chance of raising as good birds as he 

 does. 



A. 14. Start with eggs, as that is the cheapest way. He 



EITHER EGGS OR STOCK 



BOTH CAN BE DEPENDED UPON TO GIVE A 

 GOOD START IF FROM EQUALLY GOOD SOURCE 



C. H. WYCKOFF, Aurora, N. Y. 



SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 9. Would buy eggs or fowls according to which best 

 suited my needs at the time. 



A. 10. From the great number of Teports received from 

 our customers during the many years we have been supplying 

 them with both breeding stock and eggs for hatching, I find that 

 about as many credit their success to having started by one 

 method as the other. I am therefore convinced that where the 

 breeding stock and eggs offered are of equal strength and breed- 

 ing, the selection may be decided by the purchaser taking which- 

 ever is best suited to his convenience at the time. 



A. 11. Dispose of the mongrels entirely and start with 

 pure-bred stock of the varieties desired. Or, if imwilling to go 

 to this expense, purchase male birds each fall and breed up the 

 ■mongrels. I believe however, that the first proposition is 

 cheapest in the end. 



A. 12 and 13. Nothing short of preaching a whole sermon 

 would do this question justice, and I have quit preaching. As 

 a short answer will say however, read the matter up in the poultry 

 journals, study it and follow up by visiting successful poultry 

 plants; then go to work at it and get the knowledge by practical 

 experience that cannot be had by any other means. 



A. 14 and 15. Obtain by the best means available a 

 whole lot of practical experience. 



A. 16. Same answer as No. 14. While knowledge ob- 

 tained by other means may be an aid to success, yet a thorough, 

 practical knowledge of the branch of poultry business desired 

 is the only thing in my judgment that will insure it. 



A. 17. Single-Comb White Leghorns. 



A. 18. My admiration for the breed coupled with the 

 great and growing demand for them. 



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