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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS—POULTRY, PET AND LIVE STOCK SECTION,
E. R. DUBOSE-A FANCIER FOR THE FUN OF IT
One of Atlanta's Leading Busi
ness Men Ranks as an
Expert Breeder.
HIS COUNTRY HOME
AN IDEAL PLACE FOR IT
Turkeys, Pigeons and White
Wyandottes Are His Fa"
vorite Fowls.
This week we give our readers a "few
pictures and a ltttle talk on the stock
and houses we found at the home of
11. R. DuBose,. vice president of the
Chamberlin-Johnson-Du Bose Co.
Mr. DuBose has a beautiful country
home Bltuated Just four roiles out on
the Peachtree road. The'residence It
self Is situated on a high knoll, giving
a magnificent view of all the tall build
ings In the city. The house sits well
back from the road, protecting the lawn
and flowers from the dust, and the thir
teen acres In the rear covered with
beautiful oak shades are bountifully
supplied with spring water. A more
nearly perfect place for raising poul
try could hardly be found.
Mr. DuBose was one of the first men
to Join the Georgia Poultry association,
and has been an ardent supporter of
that organization from the first. He
has that perseverance called by poul
try fanciers “sUckabllity," that Is so
essential to make a good true fancier.
As a result of this, with the care and
attention and the good management on
his place, Mr. DuBose has a strain of
White Wyandottes which rank among
the best In this section of the country.
Mr. DuBose has done one thing that
»o few fanciers can be induced to do.
He started some six or eight years ago
with White Wyandottes and has stuck
strictly to them. Tho advantage of this
Is plain to see when you visit his place.
Specialization In only one breed Is
advocated by all fanciers and poultry
Journals, but few beginners seem to
take such advice.
Mr. DuBose says that he is told by
all breeders that no two varieties can
be handled exactly alike. He has care
fully observed the characteristics of
his fowls, knowing the weak points os
well as tho strong points, and Is cn-
endenvoring always to improve. His
careful work Is now receiving Its re
ward.
The main poultry yards are located
just in the rear of the house in a well
shaded grove, sloping gradually to the
south. Mr. DuBose, not being crowded
for room, uses individual - open-front
houses for each run. These runs are
large and can be thrown open to the
dense grove, when the chickens are not
mated up for breeding purposes. At
the time of our visit the birds had free
access to this body of woods, and the
Pens were to be sowed down in green
stuff In a few days. In this way Mr.
DuBose’s birds have green food the
year round.
In addition to the eight breeding
pens, there are numerous other houses
scattered around In this shaded ravine
for extra cockerels and young stock.
Remarkable Turkey Hatch.
The first thing in the way of live
stock to greet our eyes on approaching
the house was a bronze turkey hen
carrying 20 or 30 little poults. Mr. Du
Bose has had remarkable success with
the bronze turkeys. He has hatched
121 from 140 eggs, and 112 of them are
now living and beyond the danger age.
These little turkey* were all hatched
under turkey hens and Wyandotte hens,
but he makes the turkey hen do the
brooding. One hen Is carrying 48 and
never brings tnem to the bouse except
to roost. -
Turkeys are considered much harder
to raise than chickens, and I believe
Mr. DuBose has had the best success
with these turkeys that I ever saw. I
hope he will at an early date give us
an article on his method of batching
and caring for turkeys. The first yard
nearest the dwelling house Is used for
the breeders. The old servant bouse In
this yard has been converted Into an
Incubator house, and a movable fence
so arranged as to move on new ground
whenever necessary.
Novel Water Supply.
For supplying water for the dry pens
Mr. T>nBose has adopted a novel plan,
which, he states, can be successfully
followed by any breeder of poultry. A
large barrel Is located at a sufficient
elevation to be higher than any of the
surrounding runs. From this large
home-made tank small pipes are con
nected with the different runa At the
end of each pipe a small faucet Is fit
ted, allowing the water to drip con
stantly Into pans to catch- It. In this
way the chickens have cool, fresh wa
ter all the time.
The Pigeon Loft
In addition to the White Wyandottes
and turkeys, Mr. DuBose has a large
pigeon loft This was another old serv
ants’ house which has been converted
Into an ideal loft with large flying
pens SO feet long and 12 feet high. In
this house there are more than 200 fine
squab-breeding Homer pigeons, and
there never Is a day that nice, fat
squabs can not be had on his table.
Next In a large grove surrounding
the servants' house you will see a large
number of young Wyandottes appar
ently half grown. These youngsters
show that the management Is all that
could be desired. I found everything
clean and sanitary. Mr. DuBose has
a Urge open-front house not shown In
the pictures This house be U particu
larly fond ot He said that last winter
he secured from hens using this house
eggs in abundance, and believes in
having ben houses wide open in win
ter. The old cellar was originally used
as an Incubator cellar, and has been
converted Into a setting house. This
cellar U Inclined to be cool and damp
all the time. In this he sets all his
hens and has found it to be an ideal
place. It was In this bouse that he
hatched the 121 turkeys from 140 eggs.
Mr. DuBose U a careful and observ
ing breeder. He gives a great deal ot
his time to hu pets and keeps an accu
rate account of feeding and all the little
detail work is done either by himself
or his son. He knows the egg record
of each hen, how many eggs were set.
how many hatched and the weights of
the young birds at different ages. I
wish we had more fanciers like Mr. E.
K. DuBose.
Raising poultry Is to him merely a
work of recreation and amusement, but
he puU Into it a precision of method
and a concentration of carefulness and
energy that bring results of which a
professional fancier of the highest typo
might well be proud. And there is no
donbt that If he wero to devote his time
exclusively to poultry raising and
breeding he would rank with tho Kcl-
lerstrasscs, the Flshels, the Thompsons
and the Tompkinses of the Industry.
The breeders of White Wyandottes
are to bo congratulated upon having
Jsuch a champion far their variety.
Photo by Mathcwson.
COLONY BROODERS AND INCUBATOR HOUSE AT THE HOME OF E. R. DuBOSE.