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wheat, or the boll weavil devastating the cotton, or the 

 corn won't, in bad season, germinate, or the potatoes 

 gel the blight, and what not. It is work, work, work 

 all the time, and, in the end there is very little surplus 

 left over. 



Now, you may say stock raising is a fine business, 

 nearly every one likes animals. It requires a large 

 farm, which costs monej' to buy, large expensive build- 

 ings, barns and the like, and also expensive blooded ani- 

 mals with which to make a start. It is a heavy line of 

 work, too. But there is one thing in that line that does 

 not appeal to me, and that is shipping. When you ship 

 a horse, or a cow, or a sheep, or a swine, considerable 

 trouble is attached to it. One has to see about engag- 

 ing a box car, or if smaller animals, a heavy crate has 

 to be made, etc. Now, with poultry, eggs are easily 

 packed and shipped, and live birds are placed in light 

 carriers, which can be easily taken in the gasoline buggy 

 and carried to the express office. 



Dairying or the milk business. An extensive busi- 

 ness, nearly every one drinks milk. Like stock raising, 

 same requires considerable money to start with, farm, 

 barns, out buildings, etc., and who is it that wants to 

 crawl out at 4 A. M., when the mercury in the bulb is 

 flirting around zero, to milk a cow for some city sport? 

 With poultry one can use an automatic feeder and sleep 

 till the sun gets up. 



Then merchandising. That is a splendid business 

 you say. Well, it would be if it could be run on a cash, 

 pay in advance basis, but so large a per cent is lost in 

 crediting there is not much in being a merchant. It 

 too, also requires considerable capital to stock up with. 

 Lately I had an experience with a Brooklyn grocery 

 which I offer as concrete proof to substantiate my ar- 

 gument. As I said I was shipping eggs, Leghorn eggs, 

 to a large grocery in Brooklyn. They claimed to buy 

 direct from the producer and sold to the consumer. I 

 was getting a premium over New York market highest 

 quotations, with no commission to pay. I received a 

 letter from the merchandiser that he could not collect 



from customers who owed him, that they would not pay 

 and he was compelled to have a receiver appointed. He 

 said he would pay me for last shipment as soon as he 

 could, with 5 per cent interest, etc. So much for mer- 

 chandising. 



Now, in the fancy poultry business, everything is in 

 advance, pay in advance, one gets the money, it is a 

 sure thing. I would like to see more engage in the 

 fancy poultry business. I do not know of a breed that 

 offers better opportunities than Campines — Silvers or 

 Goldens. Campines are a comparatively new breed over 

 here, as most every one knows, and that they are an old 

 breed in the old country, having been bred for hundreds 

 of years over there in Belgium for eggs. They are a 

 strikingly handsome fowl, there are none other just like 

 them, they are rightly a dual purpose fowl; unique, 

 pretty to look at on the lawn, and useful to fill the egg 

 basket; that is what most everyone wants in a chicken 

 anyway. 



In the Campine one gets both, beauty and utility. 

 Then, one's neighbor has not the same breed, another 

 advantage. You can tell your chickens from all the 

 chickens in your community, which alone is a great 

 point. If they are stolen, if you can trace that pecu- 

 liarly barred feather on someone else's property, you 

 have evidence sufficient to call in a Burns detective, or 

 the dictograph. 



For the suburbanite the Campin.e is just the thing. 

 Beautiful, clean, trim, spic and span, handsome in its 

 business suit of a black feather with green, glossy sheen 

 checked with delicate white stripe; they would make 

 anyone's neighbors sit up and take notice. For the egg 

 farmer or poultryman who probably does not care what 

 a chicken looks like, but who want eggs, the Campine 

 is just the thing, for they lay and they pay. They are 

 little eaters and will forage more and hustle greater for 

 subsistance in sunshine or storm, or will remain out in 

 the wind or rain longer in proportion than any other 

 fowl of which I know. 



The Campines as Money Makers 



The Interest in Campines is Great and Wide Spread — Their Present Popularity is Due Chief ly to Their Egg- 

 Layinii Ability — What a Flock of Campines, Averaging 300 Birds, Consumed During Nine Months, 

 How They Were Cared for and the Number and Value of the Eggs — What 1,600 Cam- 

 pines, Properly Housed and Fed, are Expected io Do — Campines as 

 Market Fowl — Small l''aters— Heavy Layers 



By J. Fred N, Kennedy, Birch Cliff, Oat., Canada 



THE interest that has been taken in the Campine 

 fowl during the past three years is really amaz- 

 'ing. In about three years' time I have received 

 nearly 20,000 letters, all inquiring into the merits and 

 future of this truly wonderful little fowl, so whenever I 

 am able to present new facts p'ertaining to them it af- 

 fords me the greatest of plea>ure. 



Beginning the first day of January, 1913, I set aside 

 32S Campine females, both Golden and Silver, to make 

 up my breeding pens, for the coming season. A little 

 o\er 100 of them were from one to five years old — yes, 

 some were even older. About 225 were pullets or 1912- 

 bred birds, and of these 225 birds, two-thirds were birds 

 that were bred and raised in England by my partner. 



the Rev. E. Lewis Jones. Nearly all the older birds 

 were imported stock, and they had gone through the 

 severe winter of 1911-1912, when the temperature reg- 

 istered as low as 32 degrees below zero. All these birds 

 were kept in open-front houses of my own design. 



I shall find pleasure in giving some idea of the 

 manner in which I have handled my birds and the re- 

 sults obtained commercially, from the first of January 

 through the .winter, spring and summer up to the 

 first of October, being nine months, or 273 days. 

 During that time I sold a few of the females for 

 breeding purposes, also had a few die, which left me 

 with 276 at the end of the nine months, so I had on an 

 average, say, 300 birds during the entire time. 



