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A Little Talk About Cleanliness. 



By Rev. Carl E. Peterson. 



"Cleanliness is next to godliness." A truism well known the 

 world over, but sometimes we don't take into consideration that 

 there are several kinds of cleanliness, and some of these not 

 associated with our bodily welfare. 



Cleanliness in dealing with our customers, for every dirty 

 transaction done will not only hurt the person who was re- 

 sponsible for it, but the breed he handles, the rest of the breed- 

 ers, and reflects on the whole poultry fraternity. 



Cleanliness in the showing of our birds, for here as else- 

 where, a great deal of dirty work is done. A bird is faked out of 

 all recognition to what it was before the faker took it in hand. 

 Birds are still borrowed for show purposes, and returned after 

 the show, and we have heard of one person who is willing to 

 rent them out for the same purpose. 



It is a detriment to all honest competition- and when found 

 out it should not only be made notice of on the coop containing 

 such faked or borrowed birds, but the exhibitor should be ex- 

 cluded for at least one coming season from again exhibiting at 

 the same show. 



Cleanliness in Breeding. 



It is dirty work to advertise a strain of birds as a strain of 

 noted layers, or noted winners and then on the strength of this 

 buy birds from all over the country and send them out to unsus- 

 pecting customers under the name of the strain advertised. 



Such work cannot be hidden, however, nor kept secret; like 

 murder, it will out, and it soon becomes common property among 

 the rest of the breeders, who, we are glad to say in the great 

 majority are not in the habit of doing business in this way. When 

 a person simply sells thoroughbred stock at small prices, without 

 any pretension as to quality, it is all right for him to get his stock 

 wherever he can; he is a huckster, not a breeder; but when 

 strong claims are made for the stock and then birds are bought 

 wherever they can be gotten at a dollar or so a head and sent 

 out at reckless prices, it spells ruin to the breed such a person 

 represents and finally ruin to himself. 



