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soft , h »gAt to 
26 points of 
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|MA95 Buys 140-Egg Champion 
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Full of information about the feeding of 
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iCABDCrnC Most Profitable chickens, 
04DnEEUd ducks, turkeys and geese. 
1 Choice, pure-bred northern raised. Fowls, 
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BABY CHICKS 
VITALITY BABY CHICKS 
BETTER HATCHED, 
HIGHEST QUALITY, PURE BRED. | 
Vitality chicks. Hatched from heavy laying. I 
Hogan-tested, healthy hens and aent to you by 
special delivery parcel post prepaid, 100% safe 
and live delivery guaranteed. 10% books orders 
for any week after February 12. 
„ „ Per 100 600 1000 
S.C. Wh^-Br, Buff Leghorns $16 $72 $140 
Barred Rocks, R.I .Reas, Anconas 17 82 160 
White Rocks, Blk. Minorcas - 18 87 170 
ISHERIDAN POULTRY FARMS, Sheridan, Pa. 
[s. C. WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS 
Quality 
Service 
Satisfaction 
Catalog free 
I WAYNE POULTRY FARMS, W. J. Buss, 
Box 103, Wooster, Ohio 
vYA/i 
PRIZE WINNING CHICKS 
Every flock is carefully bred for highest type 
tmd heavy egg production. Birds from our flocks 
nave won in some of the largest shows. Alt 
popular breeds with special attention to Holly 
wood and English Leghorns. Pure bred, oi 
bourse Write tor catalog. You will be sur¬ 
prised at what you can get for the money. 
tO NE-SUCH POULTRY FARM, Box 332-C, IVIT. VERNON, OHIO 
hi a I i i C I r* lr c 10 breeds; white leghorns 
“ 7 11 ~ y V 1 : 1 C K S bred from male birds 
f' r< ’ 1 from Cornell, Missouri and Wisconsin colleges of 
Agriculture. Unity Hatchery, West Unity, Ohio. 
Which Breed Shall It Be? 
HARRY H. KROLL 
The following article by Mr. Kroll is the first 
of a series by our readers on “ What Breed 
of Chickens I Prefer” Next week Mr. , 
Earner vhll write on why he prefers Anconas. 
Write in and tell us in a short letter why you 
prefer the breed of poultry that you now have .— 
The Editors. 
i 
A ROUND the holidays, or a little after, 
when the nights are long and one is seeking 
to decide what breed of chickens to start on 
next year, the old question arises as to which is 
the better for one to raise—the egg breeds, 
or general, both-eggs-and-meat breeds. For 
a good many years, almost 20 in fact, I have 
raised chickens. Being a schoolmaster by 
profession, I have had to move a great deal, 
so I have had experience with all sorts—White 
Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, White and Silver 
Wyandottes, Reds, and a Duke’s Mixture— 
every sort. While I do not presume to speak 
with authority in the matter, I do have some 
opinions evolved from experience and rather 
close observation, and what I have to say here 
is based upon that knowledge. 
To begin with, let me say that my first 
choice is the White Leghorn. I believe it to 
be that one high-power, 12 -cylinder, non-stop 
laying machine. I raised them for many years, 
and trapnested them, and I believe I know 
them. At one time I had a choice flock of 
selected layers, 26 in number, that gave me 
25 eggs a day on many a cold winter day when 
the neighbors were as eggless as a by-George. 
I sold hatching eggs—I was living in the lower 
South then—and breeders, and I made a little 
money out of them. But I am not raising the 
White Leghorn now. I have a general purpose 
chicken—the White Wyandotte. 
My reason for changing is that the Leghorn 
—and all of the small chickens are alike in this 
respect, I believe—is a frail, difficult-to-raise 
chicken. I took the greatest care in selecting 
my breeders. I never used a sick chicken in 
the breeding pen—no matter how fine the hen 
or pullet or cock or cockerel, if it had ever had 
a droopy day in its life, I rejected it. Some¬ 
times I was sorely tempted to use some partic¬ 
ular fine hen that had a record of over 200 
eggs in her pullet year—for these birds are 
scarce, whatever you may hear to the contrary; 
but I never did. Keeping steadfastly to my 
fundamental law never to perpetuate weak 
blood lines, I culled remorselessly—and often 
remorsefully. Moreover, I never bred from 
a specimen which did not have the best of care 
from the time it was a warm egg until it pro¬ 
duced its first warm egg. Balanced food, 
clean water—all the rest of the formula. And 
yet, in spite of the most exacting care, I could 
never have the luck with raising chicks that 
I have with the heavier breeds. They were 
always delicate. Nor was this condition due 
to the many factors which bring it about— 
inbreeding, and the like. It’s an inherent 
weakness of the small type of chicken. They 
are like nervous people. While here and there 
will be a rugged individual that lives to a grand 
old age in spite of nerves, the rank and file soon 
fall beside the way. 
Heavier Breeds Seem Hardier 
On the other hand, I have found the heavier 
chickens to be uniformly strong and thrifty. 
I believe I could count on my two hands the 
number of chicks I have lost of the general 
purpose breeds I have raised for which I could 
find no explanation—such as a snake eating 
them up, or carelessness upon my own part. 
I have carried out White Leghorn chicks day 
after day and buried them without knowing the 
wherefore of the casualties. They’d simply flop 
over and “croak,” and that was all there 
seemed to be of it. But the Wyandotte, and 
even the dunghill breeds, don’t do it that way 
—certainly not to the same extent. Such, at 
any rate, has been my observation. 
I was talking with a man recently who pur¬ 
chases a world of farm chickens through this 
region of Blue-Grass Kentucky. He not only 
ships a vast number of chickens, but he also 
fattens for the nearby markets to a considerable 
extent—Louisville, Nashville, and so on. I 
mentioned this condition to him, and he had 
remarked it. He said that in handling thou¬ 
sands of market chickens a year, his loss was 
90% among the smaller breeds, and but 10% 
among the heavy and general purpose chickens. 
The lighter breeds cannot stand shipping, nor 
do they do as well under forced feed conditions. 
That was his estimate; and he said as much as 
possible he avoided penning the Leghorns that 
came his way. He hurried them off to market 
just as fast as he could get them there. 
While of course one sometimes gets a notion 
in his head and can then see a thousand things 
to substantiate it, while plenty of contrary 
evidence simply cannot be seen by him, I still 
believe that the experience of most folks who 
have tried to arrive at their judgments without 
bias will bear me out. At any rate, it is worth 
keeping in mind when one makes a selection of 
breeds for the first time. 
QUALITY CHICKS 
Chicks that live and thrive 
Because they are hatched by perfected methods^ because they come of 
vigorous farm-range ancestry. 
Chicks that lay and pay 
Because they have the lay bred in them, because careful culling of the flocks 
has eliminated the hens that are “just boarders that never pay their board.” 
Because Hillpot Quality Chicks repeat the superior laying quality of their 
ancestors, Hillpot customers find them so profitable, they repeat their orders 
year after year. That’s what has built this 
hatchery from 5,000 to 2 , 000,000 annual pro¬ 
duction. 
Protect yourself. Get your order in now for 
Leghorns Reds 
Rocks Wyandottes 
—get full count of the chicks 
you want, when you want 
them. Delivery of full count 
guaranteed, anywhere within 
1,200 miles. 
“I want x.ooo Barred Rock 
Chicks early as possible. Two 
years ago I got my chicks from 
you and they did fine. I sold 
the capons alone for three 
times what they all cost me 
and had a nice lot of pullets 
left over which laid fine all 
winter. Last year I got some¬ 
thing else and. in the end I 
learned a pretty _ expensive 
lesson. Now it’s Hillpot Qual¬ 
ity for me—and nothing else.” 
—E. L. K., Pa. 
W. F. HILLPOT, Box 29, Frenchtown, N. J. 
Member International Baby Chick Association 
Life Member American Poultry Association 
The early bird catches the worm, so does the the early chick 
» lay the high price egg in the fall and winter. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS 
New York State Certified Breeders of high yearly egg yields. Producers 
of fancy large white eggs, which bring premium prices, means greater 
profits. Early orders have preference for best shipping dates. Catalogue 
sent on request, which tells of our better methods of incubating resulting 
in stronger chicks. Advise stock preferred, whether all certified breeding 
stock desired, or Grade A and B mated to certified males. 
GENESEE VALLEY POULTRY FARM, - L. H. ROBINSON, - CASTILE, N. Y. 
1,000,000 CHICKS 
POSTPAID TO YOUR DOOR! 
100% LIVE DELIVERY GUARANTEED 1 
Prices on :- 
Varieties 
White, Brown and Buff Leghorns. $7.00 
Barred, White and Buff Rocks, Anconas, 
Black Minorcas, S. C. and R. C. Reds. 
White Wyandottes. 8.50 
Silver Laced Wyandottes. 9.50 
Buff Minorcas. 12.00 
Mixed, Broiler Chicks.100, $12, straight 
Hatched in best manner, from select, vigorous, heavy laying, purebred flocks on 
free range. Bank reference. Order right from this ad. Circular free. 
50 
100 
300 
500 
1.000 
$7.00 
$13.00 
$38.00 
$62.00 
$120.00 
8.00 
15.00 
43.00 
72.00 
140.00 
8.50 
16.00 
47.00 
75.00 
145.00 
9.50 
18.00 
53,00 
85.00 
165.00 
12.00 
23.00 
66.00 
EAGLE NEST HATCHERY, 
Box 61, 
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO 
CONTINENTAL 
Vitality 
BABY CHICKS 
Leading Standard Pure 
Breeds. All from free-range, 
heavy laying, healthy par¬ 
entage. Shipped post paid 
from one of our nearby hatch¬ 
eries. Live delivery guaran¬ 
teed. Illustrated Baby Chick 
, -.. . Book 113 is FREE to you. 
Continental Hatcheriex SPRINGFIEL^o'lllO 
CHICKS WITH PEP 
Try our vigorous, lively chicks from Bred- 
to-lay and exhibition hens. They will 
make you money for they have the quality 
and the egg laying habit bred in them. A 
trial will convince you. Rocks, Reds, 
Orpingtons, Minorcas, Anconas. Wyan¬ 
dottes, Leghorns. Big illustrated catalog 
free. Safe delivery guaranteed. Prices 
right. Prepaid. Reference, Commercial 
Bank. 
HOLGATE CHICK HATCHERY, Box A, Holgate, Ohio 
Blood Tested Baby Chicks 
INSURES YOU AGAINST LOSS 
WE HAVE OVER S.ooo BLOOD TESTED 
LAYERS OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS 
A trial will convince you of their superiority 
PRICES RIGHT CATALOGUE 
BRYAN HATCHERY Bryan, O. 
BABY CHICKS 
For those who want 
something better than 
“just chicks.” Best blood lines. Flocks all developed 
and culled under our direction. Sheppard’s Anconas: 
Parks’ and Thompson’s Barred Rocks; Barron, Tancred 
and Wyckoff Leghorns; Fishel’s White 
Rocks. Also highly bred strains ot White 
and Buff Orpingtons, R. I. Reds and j 
White and Silver Laced Wyandottes. 
Postpaid. 100% live delivery. Prices 
are low for stock of the quality we offer. 
Write for new catalog and price Kst. 
HOLTZAPPLE HATCHERY, Box 90, 
ELI DA, OHIO 
p K DV fUirifC Hatched by the best 
DAD I LrllLIVO system of incubation 
■ ' " ■■■■■ ■ ■ from high-class bred- 
to-lay stock. Barred and Buff Rocks, Reds, 
Anconas, Black Minorcas, i8c each; White, 
Brown, Buff Leghorns, isc each; Broiler chicks, 
i 2 c each. Safe delivery guaranteed by prepaid 
parcel-post. 
NUNDA POULTRY FARM, NUNDA, N. Y. 
TEN 
YEARS EXPERIENCE 
In Producing High Quality Chicks 
We have been building a chick business for 
over ten years, on the basis of fair and 
honest dealing. We have increased every 
year as a result. Flocks have-open range. 
Carefully bred for production. 100% live 
delivery guaranteed. All popular breeds. 
Prices right. Booking orders now. Write 
today to avoid disappointment. We are in the busi¬ 
ness to stay and wiUhandle your order on that basis. 
Reference. Centrai Natl. Bank, York, Pa. A 
postal will bring you full information. 
PARK VIEW EGG FARM, Box 12, DOVER, PA. 
.UirnrnJCBEST layingJ.^BEST 
II CDCiH V paying chickens, ducks, 
geese & turkeys. Fine pure-bred quality. 
Fowls, Eggs, Incubators at new low prices. 
42 years poultry experience, and my 100 
page Catalog and Breeders’ .Guide Free. 
W-A.Weber, Box 71. Mankato, Minn. 
UTILITY AND FANCY CHICKS 
We have had 20 years experience breeding: and show¬ 
ing standard breeds of poultry. Licensed A. P. A. 
poultry judge on all varieties. Can furnish both utility 
and exhibition chicks of practically all standard varieties 
Write for circular giving: full information and prices. 
Discount on early orders. 
Coshocton Hatchery, 761 S. 6th SL, Coshocton, Ohio 
Tom Barron Pedigree Strain S. C. White Leghorns 
Exclusively, Extra fine Cockerels $2 to $3 each 
Satisfaction guaranteed 
FEEK’S WHITE LEGHORN FARM, CLYDE, NEW YORK 
I iPFF CTriCk Hue Poultry, Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Guin- 
LnlYUL JlVAIt eas. Bantams,Collies, Pigeons,Chicks,Stock, 
Eggs, low; catalog. PIONEER FARMS, Telford, Pennsylvania. 
ninv rtliriZQ and eggs for hatching. 10 va- 
I tniUIVO rieties Best quality. Catalog 
free. Golden Rule Hatchery, Box ifet, Bucyrus, Ohio 
BABY CHICKS 
FROM 200-EGG HENS 
Chicks from winter laying, farm raised, mature stock. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds, Barred Rocks, White 
Orpingtons, Anconas, Black Jersey Giants, White Wyan¬ 
dottes, White Rocks. Black Minorcas, White Indian 
Runner Ducks, $15 per 100 up. Live delivery guaranteed. 
Parcels Post prepaid. Hatching eggs, $8 per 100. 
Circular Iree. 
Glen Rock Nursery and Stock Farm, Ridgewood, N. I. 
MOSSS CHICKS 
p3EST JN THE WORLD PURE BRED, 
Now is the time to ORDER 
YOUR BABY CHICKS. Moss 
guaranteed Chicks have stood the test. Pure bred 
and 100 per cent. LIVE ARRIVAL GUARAN¬ 
TEED. HEALTHY —VIGOROUS:. None better 
—ALL VARIETIES. Low prices and Superior 
Service. CATALOG ON REQUEST. 
ANTHONY H. MOSS Box A-1 MORRIS PLAINS, N. J. 
Bred-To-Lay CHICKS 
Park’s Barred Rocks, Fishel’s White flocks, Cook’s 
Buff Orpingtons, BROILER Chicks. Write for circular. 
VALLEY HATCHERY, MAUGANSVILLE, MD. 
Hampton’s Black Leghorn Chicks 
Get my free circular before you order chicks—tells wtsy the BLACK 
LEGHORN is the greatest layer and most profitable bceed on earth. 
Write today. A. E. Hampton, Box A. Pittstown, N. J. 
BABY CHICKS, big husky fellows 
Bar Rocks and R. I. Reds, $24 per 100: 1000, $200. 
Barron White Leghorns, $20 per 100; 1000, $190. 
Orders booked for March and later deliverv. 
HUMMER’S POULTRY FARM 
FRENCHTOWN, N. J. R. 1 
SPECIAL PRICES- 
I on turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, hares and dogs. 
Hatcmng eggs. Catalog free 
H. H. FREED 
Write your wants. 
TELFORD, PA. 
T 
URKEYS, Geese, Ducks, Guineas, Chickens, also 
P n; large illus . catalog free 
Lome LfOgS EDWIN SOUDER - - SELLERSVILLE, PA. 
