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feel that they are beyond human skill, it is an easy matter to 

 put them out of their misery. If you would like to save them, 

 espeGially if they are quite valuable, separate them from the 

 healthy chicks immediately, and don't put oflf doing this either. 

 One sick chick often means that the entire flock will soon be 

 walking about on "crutches" unless prompt methods are taken 

 at once to prevent the disease from spreading. 



It is also a good thing to join one of the bantam clubs. 

 There are several good clubs, one of the best being the National 

 Bantam Association, of which Geo. L. Young, of Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., is secretary. The North Eastern Pennsylvania Bantam Club 

 is also one of the best American bantam organizations ; J. A. 

 Rose, of Scranton, Pa., is the secretary of this club. Either of 

 these gentlemen would be glad to forward application blanks 

 and all necessary information to any one desiring to join. The 

 favorite bantam motto is: "More and better bantams; keep ever- 

 lastingly at it." 



Starting in the Fancy. 



We all have to make a beginning in some way and at some 

 time. It is true, some start with eggs, some with a pair, trio or 

 pen of birds, while others start to become faiiciers on the "whole- 

 sale. plan"— buying several hundred eggs or eight or ten pens of 

 fowls. In addition to this they start artificial incubation in an 

 effort to rear several thousand chickens per year expecting all 

 to be winners. Without any previous experience in the business 

 and with a lai-ge flock of birds to care for, is it any wonder they 

 become discoiiraged, sell out and start the cry that there is no 

 money in "fancy poultry?" 



If I were starting to beconle a fancier again and wishing to 

 avoid the many disappointments that befall the amateur, I would 

 first consider the question df quality, and would purchase from 

 a breeder that had the qliality arid brfed it liitnself year by year. 

 It makes no difl"erence whether he breeds 100 or 1,000 fowls per 

 annum, if he breeds tHe right klHd, aiid in the right way. One 

 setting or two df the best eggs, itid if yoit care also to make a 

 larger investment and purchase breeding birds, then buy a pair 

 or trio of first-class breeders ; it never pays to start v/ith a large 

 number because they can be bought for the same price as two cr 

 three good birdg. Jf a breeder is successful enough each year 



