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time and afterwards put him in our best mating and se- 

 cured 80 per cent to 95 per cent fertility and on four 

 sets secured fifteen strong, vigorous cliicks from fifteen 

 eggs. At ttiis time Mr. Denny, of Buffalo, visited our 

 farm and to quote his words: "I never expected to see 

 the old bird alive after being shown so many times." Now, 

 I consider this goes to prove that by careful selection and 

 breeding the Campines will have stamina and vigor the 

 equal of any fowl in existence. It is up to the American 

 Campine Club to educate our breeders to build up the 

 vitality of this breed. I think it a good plan tO' get every 

 breeder to state in his mating list whether the speci- 

 mens in the different matings are home bred or im- 

 ported, and in doing this I believe we shall win more 

 admirers and breeders to the Campines. 



We breeders hear at the shows that the Campines 

 will not make good, for they lack vitality. Of course 

 they will not in the hands of some breeders, but to the 

 true, careful breeder who studies the Campine character- 

 istics, success is assured and as soon as we Campine 



breeders wake up just so soon will the Campines become 

 one of the popular breeds of the country. 



The Campine is and can be made a great producer of 

 large white eggs, eggs that command the attention of 

 everybody when placed on exhibition. In our store here 

 I have placed a basket of Campine eggs alongside of 

 other white eggs and I have had customers select the 

 Campine eggs in preference to the others. I can sell 

 their eggs with ease, as their snow white appearance at- 

 tracts the people. I believe there will be a large demand 

 for eggs from this variety, as they possess a very fiije 

 flavor when cooked and are very palatable. Let us build 

 up the commercial side of the Campine as an egg pro- 

 ducer, for the demand is great for the large snow white 

 eggs. • 



In order to become successful with the Campines 

 you must get them acclimatised and breed only from 

 strong, vigorous, virile specimens, and soon all this talk 

 legarding the Campine as a delicate breed will be for- 

 gotten. 



The Last Two Years With Silver Campines 



The Pullets Lay in Winter. But the Hens That Lay in the Spring Produce the Best Eggs for Hatching Pur- 

 poses— Gaponized 50 Cockerels— Spraying for Lice — Splendid Winter 

 Egg Production — Using the Uogan System 



By W. H. Bnshell, Da-rid City, Nebr. 



1HAVE been breeding Silver Campines three years 

 now and have given up my old business of brick 

 manufacturing and am devoting all my time to 

 breeding up a strain of Campines for show and utility 

 purposes. 



Before taking up the Silver Campine I read an art- 

 icle in the R. P. J. by Mrs. Van Schelle and I have 

 proved what she wrote in regard to their laying qual- 

 ities as hens up to five years old. Last January I mated 

 up a pen of hens from three to four years old. They 

 are the hens I imported for my foundation stock. Those 

 nine hens laid almost equal to the yearling pullets, in 

 fact, in the month of May I got more eggs from them 

 then I did from pullet pens of equal numbers. The 

 pullets laid best in the winter. From now on I shall 

 use hens altogether in my breeding yards, as I find 

 the h.ens will -lay the eggs and they hatch good strong 

 chicks. 



In the season of 1913 I hatched out five hundred 

 chicks. The cull cockerels I fattened and shipped to 

 Omaha. I caponized fifty late hatched cockerels for our 

 winter meat and they surely were fine eating — as good 

 as turkey. I raised sixty of the best cockerels for my 

 shipping trade and one won second prize at the Chi- 

 cago Show in the hottest competition. I raised two 

 hundred and fifty pullets and did not have a sick bird 

 all season. 



I did not raise one louse nor mite, nor have I seen 

 a louse or mite on any of my birds up to this time. I 

 spray my laying houses in July or August and the 

 brooder house and colony houses in the winter when 

 they are empty with rex lime sulphur mixture, the same 

 strength as is used to spray fruit trees. I use a hand 

 spray pump and plenty of spray to wet everything well 

 and the one spraying in a year is all I use, but it did 

 the work. 



My last winter egg record was as good as I ever 

 got from my Bufif Orpingtons. To tell you of just two 

 instances to prove what I say. On January 24th a 

 party came to my place to buy a pen of Campines. I 

 was showing him through the houses when we came 

 to a pen of thirty March hatched pullets that I picked 

 out and housed November 1st for winter eggs as a test 

 pen, because in my business of shipping all winter I 

 like to have a pen I do not have to cut into, for if you 

 do you cannot tell anything about what they are doing. 

 He said: "Is this pen laying? They look like they are." 

 I told him, "Yes, they are laying fijpm twelve to eigh- 

 teen eggs every day. Is that not pretty good for this 

 cold weather?" He said, "I guess it is, as I have over 

 two hundred pullets (White Leghorns) and do not get 

 that many eggs from all mine." Another breeder of 

 some fame made a visit one evening in February just as 

 I was starting to feed and gather the eggs; he followed 

 me the rounds and when I was through he said, "I have 

 gathered eggs for years in the winter, both Rocks and 

 Leghorns, but this beats all the egg gathering I ever 

 saw for winter from the same number of hens." 



In mating up my breeding yards this winter I used 

 the Hogan system. I felt sure I would find most all my 

 old hens would go two hundred eggs or more by the 

 way they had laid the two years I had them. I went 

 over them and found all but one that was good for two 

 hundred eggs. I cut the one out and ate her and sure 

 enough she did not have many eggs in her. I picked 

 out one pen of pullets that would go from two hundred 

 to two fifty eggs by the Hogan system and they are 

 proving it by the number of eggs I get from them. It 

 is a comfort to gather eggs from such birds. 



Four weeks ago last Saturday I took off a hatch of 

 lis chicks from 150 eggs and I moved them to different 

 quarters. Last Saturday I caught them one at a time 



