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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS-POULTRY, PET AND LIVE STOCK SECTION.
ORPINGTON GROVE WH raises^handsonPe > Bi
BIRDS
Mrs. I*. L. Upson r 1124 Prlnee-ave.,
Athens, Go., owner of “Orpington
Grove,** is widely known as a breeder
of three varieties of Orpingtons, Black.
Buff and White, but at the coming
great Atlanta show, January 8-13, 1912,
she will, for the first time, show the
Diamond Jubilees.
She started in this business purely
for recreation, but her birds have proved
such wonderful winners at all of the
big shows In the South and some of
those In the North that it has been
necessary for her to enlarge her whole
plant, and she is now running it purely
on a business basis.
She advocates open front houses with
roosts close to the ground, which Is a
preventive " of bumblefoot, sprains. |
sprain toes, etc. Now she is breeding *
t her Buffs for two distinct color schemes. |
She has several yards of light Golden'
Lemon Buffs, which is the color in Buffo
which wins in the Northern shows.
The other color she hi breeding is the
Dark Buff, which is so popular in the
South. She is also breeding her Blacks
for the much sought for greenish tint,
eliminating all purplish color, and she
has had a most marvelous success in
breeding her green color. This is due
entirely to her mating. '
She is breeding her White Orping
tons even heavier than The Standard
catls for, some of the hens weighing
from nine to eleven pounds. She ex
pects eventually to have a breed of
Whites that wlir weigh as much as the
Blacks.
She not only feeds grit In the hopper,
but she feeds it to them In all their
mash and other foods, which keeps the
digestive organs working properly. and
has a tendency to rapidly develop all
birds.
Mrs. Upson was at one time a past-
master of craftsmanship, but the Or
pingtons have supplanted her Intuitive
love for this art. Mrs. Upson is poultry
editor of The Athens Banner, a member
of the woman's ganeral committee of
the Appalachian Poultry show and has
recently resigned as secretary of tha
Southern Poultry association of Athens.
Besides being a member of all Or
pington clubs, she Is a live member
the American Poultry association and
state vice president of the American
White Orpington club.
The large cup shown in the photo
graph was won by a S. C. Black Or
pington cockerel at Philadelphia, as the
best of Cook’s strain.
The smalt cup was also a special prise
won cn the best cockerel exhibited by a
lady breeder.
Mrs. Upson Is a great believer in the
future of the fancy for women, and be
lieves that with more inducements that
many more of them would enter their
birds at different shows.
Her “Orpington Grove** banner, she
firmly believes. Is her mascot, as it is
the University of Georgia colors. .
AT ORPINGTON GROVE, ATHENS. GA.
Photo by Mathew tea.
Big cup won by Mr*. L. L. Upson. Orpington Grave, Athens, Ga. Boat
Black Orpingtcn at Philadelphia show. Small cup for boat Black Op-
Black Orpinytcn at Fhiladelcma snow,
pington ceckeret shown by Isay breeder.
Mites and Lice
Hen Hatched Chicks Vs. Incubator Chicks
Some weeks ago 1 wrote about fancy liave changed the eggs from the ma-
prkes for eggs and stock and the editor .chine to the bens and from the hens to
gave me a good combing- 1 am willing ! the machine on the eighteenth day. and
to take my medicine, but still think the I invariably the hens have been the wtn-
$10,000 hen only a fancy In the minds «*f I nrr. This season we have averaged
a very, very few people. I am willing. .* fourteen chicks to every clutch of Jlf-
Brot her Riels, to go to tha $100 mark {teen eggs under hens, and not over 70
for extra good Individuals, but you may ! per cent In the machines. I will go on
have all the $10,000 ones that you can | record, too. that 70 per cent is above
write checks for.
another bomb
Incubator versus h^n batch chicks,
have always contended that ll«e
man of moderate means, that has no
money to throw away and that wants to
hatch and raise 200 or 300 chirks in a
season, can do it much better and
cheaper with hens than with incubators
and brooders. 1 realise that he ran not
get them so early, possibly not so many
think I will explode j the average of all the hatches made in
the question of incubators. 1 am not from Missouri,
but when I read about the 100 per cent
hatches in Incubators I simply say. “1
can't." 1 want to be fair and truthful.
1 do not want to mislead any one.
Therefore. I must say that very many
of the claims made for Incubators and
brooders are made to sell the machine*.
1 may be a backnumb<*r. but sometimes
bucknumbcrs are very valuable for ref-
t a time, but he will get more and j erence or to get the real facts. 1 have
By starting now you can* easily keep source after much care has been taken
h#* mitrs in rh*rk ter the balance of. of the setting hen*. 1 have known la-
i rotator hatched chicks to become
being kept
the mites in check for the balance
year They do not c*«e much ^ from
trouble during the cold weather, but
begin their operations during the
spring months, and by mid-summer
will overrun the poultry house if left
to themselves. You will first notice
them on the roosting poles, usually in
small clusters on the underside, and
you can destroy them all by thoroughly
saturating the roosts with any liquid
Uce killer. Coal tar preparations are
the best, but if you can out procure
such, use kerosene and carbolic acid. (
An old paint brush is very suitable to j
h.
In close proximity to the farm build
ing*-
Get some old window sash and make a
hot bed for early green stuff for both the
fowls and little chicks. A tad of lettuce
makes splendid green food and a quan
tity of it can be grown on a small space.
HATCHING WITH IN
CUBATORS.
stronger chicks from the same number
of eggs and the chirks will make belter
laying stock because they have more
vigor and gumption. Because they are
not hatched so early they may not b*-
gln to lay quite so soon, but when they
do begin they will have enopgh
energy to more than overbalance the
few early egg* laid by the incubator*
stock. 1 hatch both ways, and have
been doing so many years 1 mark my
chicks and observe carefully and my
conclusion after twenty years* close
study leads me to believe that during
ail these years 1 have made a better
per cent of hatches and raised to ma
turity fully 35 oer cent more of th*
taen hatched chicks than (rum the ma
chine hatched. I have used the best
and the cheapest machines. 1 have
hatched about every kind of fowl rec
ognised by The standard. 1 have
hatched 10 cellar and garret. In season
And out. have put tfi$ eggs In a machine
under- bans, eggs from same
Stock, laid at same time; 1 have run
the hatches to a finish as atartec} and
been in the poultry business nearly half
a century. 1 have seen manv wrecks on
the shores of time simofy because men
were led to believe many things-that
can not be attained. I am not influenced
by c reed or money and what 1 say and
write Is exactly what 1 know and have
learned by experience. Mv way may
not be the best, but I Invite fair criti
cism. 1 believe that good poultry well
• d for will return a greater net profit
cupltal and labor than anv live stock
the farm. Rut it Is not all sunshine
ami profit The mariner's chart must
locate the dangerous shoals and roeka
they heroine a menace. So with the
t era ns in any business. It is the num
ber of good chickens raised from a given
number iff c*r«*H that'we must rely upon,
not ti»e number set or hatched, and 1
can hatch and raise more good chicks
with hens than with incubators
brooders. I am writing this for tha
farmers und farmers' wives, not for
broiler men. They must use the mi
chjnes. CAL UUHHItLMAN.
Continued From Page Out
on , hta p ro p.r «.u*» ^
success more than on all other factors
combined. Here In Georgia, where the
outside temperature from March to
June differs so much from midnight to
It is necessary to keep close
watch over tha thermometer and .to
adjustments at least twice a day.
morning and evening, during the warm
est periods, in order to hold an even
temperature. 1 know that in an Ideal
location where changes In temperature
are insignificant the above statement
will not apply, but 1 have uo such lo
cation and have not yet seen such a
sure to thoroughly cover the underside
of each roost as well as the supports.
Make this application every week or
ten days during the summer months
and your poultry house will be kept
reasonably free of mites.
As a rule you will not be troubled
with Uce on the little chicks if you
thoroughly dust the setting hens with a
good Insect powder two or three times
while Incubating. This will surely kill
all yellow lice and feather mites, but
unless yoq are particular the gray or
head louse may be missed and the first
thing you know your little chicks may
be drooping around, or dying off. So
be sure to thoroughly dust the bead
and neck of the setting bens. Should
your chicks have head lice anoint the
top of heads, also along down the side
of their neck and throat, with sweet oil
or lard, being careful to apply sparing
ly so as not to smear the chick.
It is always well to place the brood
coops and rear the chicks some dis
tance from the poultry buildings and
tha run of eld fowls,
eaa acquire lice and mites from that
I want to add that 1 should not have
entered the poultry business, if .lt had
not been for the Incubator and tbe
White Leghorn, The business hen of
America."
This Is a team that can not be beat
en. 1 see no brighter spot on the in
dustrial hortson of Georgia today than
the brilliant prospect open to him who
Intelligently adopts poultry culture aa
a business. J. P. DOWNING.
Kirkwood, Ga,