I SYMPOSIUM OF BREEDERS 



I MIGHT state the facts set forth in the following testimonials and you 

 ■ would say I am boosting my breed and making extravagant claims- 

 And it is to avoid just this thing that I append the following extracts from 

 letters written by practical and experienced poultry men and women from 

 all parts of the country, in all stations in life, and raising fowls of all var- 

 ieties in all the different conditions one can conceive. 



Every one of these testimonials are unsolicited, and are the frank ex- 

 pressions made by the people whose names and addresses are attached, and 

 the letters are on file in the oflBce of the writer. 



Read them thoughtfully and consider what it means for such unquali- 

 fied endorsements to be given one breed of fowls under such varying con- 

 ditions of climate, care, housing, feeding, etc. 



J. A. Biehler, Strasburg, Illinois: I have been in the chicken business for five years, 

 and have had nothing as good as Anconas. They lay more eggs and eat one-third less than 

 any large breed, and do as well in a small place. 



T. Z. Richey, Cannelton, Indiana: Two yean ago I placed ten Barred Rocks in com- 

 petition with ten Anconas. Strict account was kept for eighteen months, at the end of 

 which time it was found that each Ancona had netted a profit of fifty cents more than each 

 Rock. 



L. M. Barrett, Morristown, Tenn: I have been in the poultry business thirteen years 

 and bred Anconas alongside Brown, White and Buff Leghorns, Barred Rocks and Rhode 

 Island Reds. The Anconas left the others so far behind in egg laying that I discarded my 

 other fowls and devote my fifteen acres to Anconas. 



E. G. Hoare, England: I bought four Ancona pullets very late hatched, about the 

 end of July. They began to lay in February, and until the moult in July I got three to 

 four eggs daily, which was continued until January, when they stopped for three weeks be- 

 cause of a change of pens. 



J. Anderson, Lochenbee, Dumfries, Scotland: I have kept Anconas three years, and 

 would not be without them for a regular supply of eggs winter and summer. My regular 

 customers prefer Ancona cockerels for the table; they say they are all flesh with very little 

 bone. 



Isaac Keay, Blairgowrie, Scotland: Our Anconas were laying in January when other 

 breeds were not, I have been getting twelve and thirteen eggs a day from sixteen Ancona 

 hens since the end of January. Few eggs sold had to be replaced for infertility. 



Mrs. Charles E. Bacon, Middletown, Con.: I like my Anconas very much. They are 

 so tame, and lay such large white eggs and have laid wonderfully well. I have about one 

 hundred Rhode Island Reds, but if I continue to keep poultry I shall raise Anconas only. 



Francis Walsh, 614 W. Indiana Ave., Philadelphia: I gotten chicks from thirteen 

 Ancona eggs shipped me from another state. I think they are the healthiest and livliest 

 chicks I ever saw, and everybody who sees them says the same thing. 



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