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BEGINNERS MUST
BUYJUDICIOUSLY
Let Some Experienced Breeder
Advise Ynu at the Start.
You’ll Avoid Trouble.
A visit to the big shows In the country
give the budding fancier an idea of the
points that aie needed for a bird to win.
Every one must remember that the be
ginner today is the experienced fancier
of the future, and it should encourage all
who contemplate taking up the keeping
of Jive stork All haxe started from the
same mark t’*ne has, however, the ad
vantage of a big pocket, while hundreds
of the keen fanciers have little capita,
at their command With the latter, it
may take more time in getting tn the top
of the tree, still the place is always open
for every one who has grit and determi
nation. Many of the most noted breed
ers of today started in a small way. with
email means, and in some cases small
ideas, but success having crowned their
efforts in the early stages, they have g"ne
on and made fame for themselves Ihe
idea that the fancy is overcrowded is an
erroneous one, for there never was a time
when the enthusiastic could make more
headway than today Shows are more
numerous than ever, hence the chances
of comtng to the front are greater, and
the demand for go,xl stock is an Increas
ing on*
Novice#' Difficult*©#
One is frequently asked advice on all
points that affect the beginner May I
say that the falling off and the falling of
so many novices Is that they pretend to
know’ much before having learned the
first rudiments of the business After
years of hard practical experience, both
in breeding and exhibiting, there is much
to learn and when a new hand starts off
with the idea that after twelve months
of poultry keeping he knows all there Is
to know, he makes the greatest mistake
of his life He has not found hls feet,
let alone practical experience he gains,
the more he will discover that there are
still ffiary details to be mastered. <»ne
Is often asked the best way of getting
Into the fancy This must of course de
pend on the amount that one can expend
upon the first lot of birds To th© man
who has only a small amount of cash to
put down at once, h© needs to be careful
to see that it Is spent In the most ad
vantageous way Now. may I advise
Buch a beginner to place himself in the
hands of well known breeders and state
clearly what he Is and what he requires,
and not at the outset tn go In for th©
best quality After the first year he will
have had some experience with th© breed
of his choice and begin to learn some of
the salient features of th© bird, and can
then form a better idea as tn the needs
of the breeding pen
Novice#* Success
In an earlier sentence I advise dealing
with a good breeder By this method the
old hand is placed on his mettle, and he
will soon say what he can do for the
means at disposal He is put on hls hon
or and the reputation of our leading men
If worth more than the small amount of
a moderate breeding hen. If the price
allowed 1e too low, they will say so, and
will advise away out of the difficulty.
In some cases breeding hens have been
out of question, but a sitting of eggs has
(hanged hands That will give the new
hand a reasonable start, even If the ven
der has wanted the first nick of the
chicks. The blond of more left is good
enough to go on with, and many a time
had formed the nucleus of n famous
stork Do not despise the day of small
things, but go at It with a will, and I am
certain that success must follow in the
wake The old breeder is ready a* all
time© tn render advice, which from years
of etudj and practice is very valuable
A mistake ia often made through drop
ping and changing about When once
started with a good breeder stick to him
till you have begun to walk by yourself,
and even then, don’t run until you feel
certain that what you ar© doing I* sot the
beat Work and an open mind will ac
complish more than arrogance and self
conceit Poultry Item
“BOARDINGHOUSE” CHICKS
HATCHED IN TOOMBS CO.
VLDAIJA. GA - It remained for
Turns!* county to produce the pattern
for a regtilai "boarding: houee" chicken.
One that will best fill the bill of these
plaeee been hatched In the barn
ya-d of a resident of this place The
chicken has four legs, four wings an!
the better part of two backs, with only
one breast, neck and head The chicken
1F rhe property of Representative W
F Peacocjt The legs are all well form
ed.and the wlttfrs are regular In .hap-
Rendotte Farm
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Whitp Runner Diirk
II i Eggs, $5.00 for 12.
The best investment
in the poultry indus
try. Every White
• Runner duck hatched
and raised will be
' worth a ten dollar
note next fall. Be able
to advertise REN
DOTTE STRAIN,
and get results.
Rendotte Farm
I P. 0, Box 300 Atlanta. Ga
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Court Fixes That Verdict
Against Express Company
for Letting Them Die.
E H Lirhtenwalter. of Girard, F*a .
has Just recovered a judgment In the
court of common pleas of Erie county,
Pennsylvania, against the American Ex
press Company for carelessness and neg
ligence In causing the death of two cock
erels shipped b\ bhn one to Chicago
and one to New York to the poultry shows
In December. 1909
One bird was smothered and the other
was Injured and died from some one
breaking In the slats of the coop upon
th© bird
The judgment Is for $231 12 and costs,
amounting to about S7O additional, mak
ing about S3OO that the express company
will have to pay on account of the neg
ligence of Its employees.
Vive dollars was all the express com
pany was willing at first to pay for the
loss, but after recovery <»f judgment be
fore a magistrate It offered SIOO. which
was refused, and th* company thereupon
appealed the case into the court of
common pleas, where the judgment for
$231 12 was given against it March Ik.
1911
The cockerel shipped to Chicago was
smothered by the express company plac
ing other coops on top of its coop, shut
ting out the air
The carelessness of the express agents
was shown to the com t and jury by the
plaintiff as to the cockerel shipped to
Chicago by his own testimony and that
of D M Covert, of Willoughby, <>hlo,
who saw the bird unloaded and discov
ered that h* was breathing bls las’ as he
was taken nut of the car. and that coop?
i had been placed on top of hls c >op. thus
shutting out the air
The coop returned from New York with
la 'lead cockerel In It and with the top
'«lats broken in down upon the bird
showed the carelessness and negligence
nf the express cornpanx s employees in
handling It Although the express re
| oeipts limited the defendant's liability to
i for each bird, the law of Pennsylvania
' do« s not permit defendant to avail it
self of this limitation where negligence
|is pt >ven by plaintiff as In this case
but permits a recovery of the full value
I"' a I've stock shipment
’l’he strong probability is that hereafter
jthe express company will exercise great
er . are In handling valuable live stock
j shipments for the patrons of the com
pany
THIS WILL GET THE RATS
This trap has been known tn catch
the rodents by the barrelful Procure a
water tight barrel, put a rock in the bot
tom that w ill reach up about a font high
and pour in sufficient water to nearly
cover the rock, leaving Just the upper
point sticking out and It should be about
large enough to hold a single rat In
place of the upper head, stretch a piece
of thick wrapping paper over the top
of the barrel and fasten it secure!' by
means of the ton hoop or a cord. Damp
en the. paper slightly with a moist sponge
Hand it will become tight when dry Feed
the rats on this pap**t head with cheese
I parings and other things they like for
several nights in succession. *•« as to got
I the rats accustomed to < owing without
fear or suspicion \fter you have gamer
their confidence cut a cross slit m tht
middle of the paper and spread the feec
las before The first rnt that mines wil
drop through into the water and get ov
| the rock. Urn next one drops througl
and there is a fight for a foori .»id am
1 they argue the point woh s|i--ab
that all the rats m th* ncighborhoo.
hasten in to find nut what the trouble 's
Kansas City Journal.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY, MAY 25. 1912
FEEDING IMPORTANT
ITEM IN THE RAISING
OF YOUNG CHICKENS
Tlip inorinous development of th°
poultry Industry through artificial
hatching and rearing of fowls has con
tinually evolved new questions as to
how to obtain the best results. The
up-to-date poultryman is ever on the
alert with eye and brain to detect new
ideas. Os course, the net result In view
Is to obtain the quickest returns for
our money and labor
We have long ago decided and prac
ticed that the Single Comb White Leg
horns properly .bred is the breed to do
it with. Now, as to the manner. Next,
if not equal to the open front curtain
poultry house for adult fowls, we con
sider the colony house system for
chicks. There used to ho an idea that
any old thing, box or barrel, would do
for the little fellows, but the wise poul
tryman lias exploded that idea.
If new methods will, at the expense of
a few dollars, take 100 chicks, bring
i hem to selling or laying period full 60
days sooner, besides rearing a much
better and larger per cent of chicks,
surely a small outlay of a few dollars is
not worth considering in the game.
We cheerfully divide our experience
and information with the readers of
The Northwest Poultry .Journal, ami
give you an idea how the colony houses
for chicks are built. Each house is six
by ten, six feet in front, five in the
rear, and they are built on skids (made
like sled runners) and they can he read
ily moved by hitching a horse to them
Such a house will accommodate at
hatching time 150 chicks. Now, chicks
double and triple in size very rapidly,
but in three weeks the sex in Leghorns
can be easily distinguished, and at that
age anyhow the sexes should he sep
arated. which leaves the flock nearly
one-half less, and plenty of room left
for the growing pullets
What do we gain by such an arrange
ment? First, plenty of room for the
chick. Tlte air never gets bad or over
heated. and whether it rains or snows
the little fellows can scamper around
inside and continue tn grow, same as
outdoors Second, we have continual
fresh ground; as one stand gets font,
we hitch our old marc to the skids and
tn a very few minutes the chicks have a
fresh run.
As to results That's what we are
after, and you can judge for yourself
While other people are fooling around
with antiquated methods, and the lug
breeds which have to be boarded free
all winter before beginning to lay to
ward spring, when eggs are twenty
cents a dozen, our Leghorns under our
management of handling, begin laying
in September and October, when eggs
are 40 cents to art cents a dozen, and
keep it right up all winter.
Is this all mere theory? Not a bit of
it It goes on right along at the Rocky
ford Poultry farm. We have had pul
lets lay at four months of age, and
young cockerels weighing two pounds
each at nine weeks
What brot. ht all this about ? A <>ui< k
maturing (fresh air. bred to lay strain,
raised by the colony house advantages.
| and premises kept in a sanitary condi
tion >
Now for the hens roaming the fields
at will and carefully housed at night,
in the pink of condition. Chicks from
such a flock or nuttings come from the
shell lively and strong. We have no
pens for special use and don't want
I tlwm. for yarder fowls lack the vigor
ami -lamina of the free range fowls.
,mi the percentage of •gg fertility is
! low , and the chick weak
i We repeat: In fact, there is only on
| way. according to our experience, to
properly raise young stock up to th<
I maturing point, and handle breeding
i hens, ami that is by having colony ami
(laying houses scattered among cherry
(tree-, and in green alfalfa pastures
t where they can roam at will oyer thr
j fields .md pick up all the greens, bugs
insects. et< necessary for develop
■ metit. and fettle strong hatching eggs
I The way .md sty lo as just how w»'
nab h ,mc b nod clucks we hope tip
i editor will a loyy us space to tell ym
-mm tm>. in the future. Northwes
Journal.
Vidalia to Have One
Os World's Largest
Poultry Businesses
\ IDALIA. GA. Vidalia is to have the
• largest poultry business in this section of
• the country, a citizen of this place hav
ing gone into it on a large scale and hav
ing already Invested several thousand dol
lars in stock alone over and above his in
vestments in land and houses. Both
fancy and plain or barnyard breeds will
be given attention and the pigeon lofts
will be the most extensive in the state
Poultry and eggs have figured as two
, nf the highest Items of produce In this
section, and If the new enterprise does
not have to go too far away to find a
market it is a sure thing that the preach
ers of this section will have to loosen
their belts.
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FLIMSY INCUBATOR IS
A POOR INVESTMENT
IN POULTRY BUSINESS
‘ The success or failure of artificial in
cubation depends largely upon the ma
x chine selected to do the work. There
s fore, great care should he exercised in
I making the selection. To be satisfactory
-a machine must be durable There are
x many machines on the market which w’ill
* hatch well when new. hut which are con
' structed so flimsily that in a short time
• the> become worthless, and in this con
nection it should be remembered that an
' Incubator which fails to give good
' hatches is wise than useless, as each
time that it is operated unsuccessfully
* the eggs are lost, the oil used 10 heat it
is wasted, and the opportunity to make
a profit from the chickens which should
have been hatched is gone forever.
Therefore. If artificial incubation is prac
ticed it is wise tn have good machines
? with which to do the work. Personally
1 am in favor of hot air machines, be
s cause there is no water to bother with.
1 no tanks to rust out and leak or freeze
s ami burst In cold weather when not in
’ use
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' CULL OUT PULLETS
AND FATTEN A FEW
BROILERS FOR SALE
If you are desirous of having a choice
’ flock of pullets, you must cull closely as
.. they are growing. Weed out .every unde
sirable specimen, if you can get several
e of them out at once you can fatten them
] for the broiler market. It does not pay
to raise the pullets that are off color or
f defective in any way You may think at
> the time that they are pullets and that
- you will want them for egg production.
1 but the time will come when they will be
s come an eyesore to you You will mar an
otherwise fine lot of birds by having in
' with them some that are not right as to
'• color, form or some special points. The
best thing to do is to watch and cull
closely. In order to do this, endeavor to
raise as many chicks as possible so that
you will have a wider field of selection.
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HEN DEPOSITS EGGS IN BANK.
i* AUSTIN. TEXAS B 1. Gill, state
t commissioner of banking, has received an
r inquiry from F F Paschall, cashier of
* the First State Bank of Leesburg. Texas.
3 which is puzzling him It reads:
”1 have a new depositor, and I do not
know how 7 to handle the lady’s account
n \ white hen comes in every morning and
deposits an egg behind the vault door;
please inform me how to handle this ac
count
s It was not until the price of eggs began
e to soar weeks ago that this hen selected
the bank vault as the place for deposit
>- Ing het eggs Mr Paschall says she evi
s dently has a due appreciation of their
e value
~
a Texas ’s now -aid to lead all the
f ! nthe- states • f the Union in the matter
|of ttu key culture
CARE VITAL POINT IN
GETTING BIG PROFITS
IN POULTRY CULTURE
An old poultry raiser—and a wonder
fully successful one was asked.
"Where is the vital pqjjjt of success?”
His reply we give word for word:
"Just a little more care—just a little
attention added. Many people rest
contented with a reasonable profit.
Now, that is right where you should be
gin to hustle. You have success for a
foundation, and it is the proper time
to apply all the experience that has led
up to it, and all the science that the
experience has put at your command.
It is the point where each little item
means additional dollars, without ad
ditional expense. Every step now
spells p-r-o-f-i-t. Keep your fowls in
health and don’t waft to lock your sta
ble until after the horse is stolen. Avoid
disease by constant prevention, and
when disease does come, have your
remedies right at hand. Don’t be in
the position where you hate to wait
days to get a remedy and mean
while your fowls are coming down in
bunches and the disease is getting a
foothold that defies treatment. You
can't resurrect a dead fowl, so cure
them at the very start.”
LOSS IN BROKEN EGGS
OVER $1,000,000 YEARLY
KANSAS CITY, MO.. May 25.—Un
skilled handling of poultry and eggs
costs the ■ mle of the United States
$45,000,000 annually, is the conclusion
of the state board of health, after six
months investigation.
The price of eggs is higher than ever
says the report, and competition is
keen but the producer gains nothing.
Because of the large number of farm
ers who are careless in marketing their
eggs, the careful farmer is forced to
accept the same price as is paid his less
industrious neighbor. In Kansas alone
this loss is estimated at more than 1
million dollars a year.
RHODE ISLAND RED HEN
LAYS RECORD SIZE EGG
JASPER. GA., May 25.—A. V Jones,
a retired farmer and ex-clerk of the
superior court and county treasurer,
who lives in town here and keeps some
poultry for table use. fs today exhibit
ing an egg laid by a Rhode Island Red
hen. which, so far as this community
is able to show. 1s a record breaker.
The egg is 7 1-2 inches around the
short way, and 9 1-2 inches around the
long way. and weighs six ounces, being
the weight of three ordinary-sized
hen's eggs.
POULTRY ASSOCIATION FORMED.
CHARLOTTE. N C , May 25. The
Southeastern Poultry association Is the
name of a newly formed organization
for the promotion of elite hen flesh in
this state. Stock has been subscribed
liberally, both in Charlotte and through
out the state, and just now plans for
holding a 3,000-chlcken show in Char
lotte next fall are taking definite shape
Edgar Moore, proprietor of the Selwyn
hotel, Is president, and 11. L. Simmons,
well known judge, is secretary of the
association. North Carolina is experienc
ing a renaissance of interest in the in
dustry in this -state, and a new fancier
is born every day
MAKE HENS LAY
More eggs. Feed Wonder Egg Pro
ducer and Chick ('.rower. Makes you
money Write for trial Will con
vince you. Enclose 10c, N, L. Webb.
Tex. Box 14
MOTTLED ANCONAS.
First pen (only one entry) at great
\tlanta show. January 8-13. First pen.
first cockerel, first pullet big Chatta
nooga show First pen. first cockerel
first pullet Bowling Green Ky We have
rover failed tn vtn the blue Eggs. $5
( per fifteen straight.
COPPERAS FALLS FARM
| Tullahoma, Tenn.
HOWTOJUDGE
WIRE FENCING
Test in Solution of Sulphate of
Copper Will Determine Last
ing Qualities.
For some time past there have been
complaints as to the lasting qualities of
wire fencing. The trouble seems to he
that the galvanizing did not wear as well
as on wire fence bought in previous*
years For the benefit of our readers
who buy wire fencing and are compelled
to accept the word of the maker as to
the quality. I give a test taken from the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
specifications:
“The wire will be plunged into the
saturated solution of sulphate of copper,
permitted to remain one minute, and then
wiped clean. This process will be per
formed four times. If the wire appears
black after the fourth immersion, it shows
that the zinc has not been all removed
and that the galvanizing is well done;
but if it has a copper color the iron is
exposed, showing that the zinc is too
thin."
A Test Easily Made.
The saturated solution of sulphate of
copper (commonly called blue stone) is
made by putting as much blue stone in
water as will be dissolved. There is no
harm if some blue stone remains undis
solved in the bottom of the jar
This test can be made very easily at
the time of purchasing th© wire fence
b\’ rutting off a piece of wire and dip
ping it Into a smalj bottle filled with the
solution.
It might be well to try some fencing
that you have on hand now. and note
the difference between that which you
have had a long time an<l fencing recent
ly purchased.
You are paying for properly galvanized
fencing, so reject all inferior goods that
do not come very near this test.
THE LATE HATCH.
If you have a late-hatched brood or
two. do not house them with the older
fowls. A large dry goods or piano box
makes an ideal home for them. Here
by themselves you can give them better
care and thus induce more thrifty
grow’th. With the larger fowls they stand
a poor show of getting their share of the
food, and besides they are pecked at and
hurried till they are too scared and nerv
ous to eat. Pul the backward ones by
themselves, give them an extra chance,
and then if they do not “make good"
soon, send them to market. A poor bird
eats just as much as a good one. and the
survival of the fittest should be the motto
of every one who would succeed.
GAYMONT FARM
Box 1711 Atlanta, Ga.
REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE AND BERKSHIRE PIGS
Eggs for hatching. Dark Cornish fowl, $3.00 and $5.00 per setting; White
Laced Red Cornish. $5.00 per setting: Black Minorca, $3.00 per setting.
White Runner ducks, $5 per setting of twelve.
We can furnish eggs for hatching from mixed breeds for broilers at 50
cents per setting straight or $3.00 per 100 eggs.
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS~
DOWN GO THE PRICES ON STOCK AND EGGS!
Fine Males and Females, $3.00. Eggs. $2.00 per 15. $lO per 100.
C. 0. HARWELL, Atlanta, Ga.
113 North Pryor Street. Phone 8000
PLENTY OF FAKES
TO IEX BEGINNER
Prominent Poultry Man Gives
Some Advice to Buyers of
Eggs and Fowls.
(By C. F. Townsend. President Na
tional Poultry Association, Weeds
port, N. Y.)
Last season I gave out —as I shall do
this —a few eggs from prize birds in our
testing pens. These eggs are furnished
in order that records may he had of
hatches, growth and maturity under
varying circumstances.
The birds in our pens are supplied by
the most famous breeders in America,
and each little flock is as thoroughly
sequester'd from the others as if an
ocean rolled between them.
Among'those birds was a pen of Rose
t'oinh Rhode Island Reds from the late
Robert C. Tuttle, of Hartford, Conn.,
who bore an untarnished reputation as
a breeder and a gentleman. Imagine,
then, my amusement on receiving, late,
in the season, a letter in which the
writer said, among other things, “Either
you or Mr. Tuttle let your game cocks
run with the Reds, for I have a couple
of regular game birds from the eggs
you sent me.”
Think of that, now!
Not Up On History.
And neither Mr. Tuttle nor I had a
game bird in our yards.
The writer of that letter knew noth
ing of the history of the Rhode Island
Reds, else he would have been aware
that the "game" was merely the out
cropping of the old Malay blood which
gives the Reds their splendid vitality.
Another instance:
Recently a fancier, who has a splen
did flock of White Orpingtons, em
ployed me to score some of his best
bids from which to Select hls best
breeding pen. To his amazement 1 dis
carded a couple of his Itfggest and
whitest birds. But when I pointed out
the fact that the wings of one showed
a strong reversion to the Black Ham
burgs, and the legs of the other to the
White Leghorns-—both of which were
used in producing the White Orping
tons —he saw a great light.
The experienced poultryman knows
better. If he should buy a $5 bird,
which is most unlikely tie would ex-’
peet nothing better. The Feginner who
does not know values expects more
than he gets and makes a noise in con
sequence. Editors are constantly hear
ing the complaints made by such peo
ple: and explaining things, for the ben.
efit of beginners, is. not the least of
their troubles.
Fakes Cause Trouble,
Mind you. I don’t say that there are
no causes for complaint. There are
plenty. Fake "books," which merely
advertise some fraudulent strains."
have been offered at ten times their
value, and sold to the unwary by the
means of flaming advertisements. Fake
"egg-testers." alleged to tell not only
fertile eggs, but the sex of each; hum
bug “systems.” covering every swin
dling scheme, from "clearing $7,500
yearly on a plot 40 fee.t square" to a
"profit of $2,880 yearly from 24 hens;"
"schools" to teach judging by mail;
other "schools” to teach a city man.
who never sees a live bird, unless it is
an English sparrow’, how to raise poul
try—also "taught” by mail. The woods
are full of these unhung knaves.
SOFT FOOD AND DISEASE
There is a partiality for soft foods,
because by their use many substances
in a fine condition can be given: but it:
is a ndstke to feed soft food oftener
than once a day to three days In the'
week Too much soft food causes the giz
zard to be idle, and being deprived of
its use the fowl becomes diseased The
gizzard is an organ that performs a cer
tain duty, Just as is required nf the heart
or liver, and any system of feeding that
takes largely from the gizzard the duty
which devolves upon it will in the end
prove detrimental. It is not out of place
to allow soft foods, hut the larger propor
tion of the food should be unground, so
as to keep the gizzard active: hence whole
grains are essential to success. When too
much soft food is allowed the crop fre
quently remains full and fond does not
pass through the gizzard
FOR SALE
S. CRYSTAL White
Orpingtons. A few
trios at $lO, sls, S2O,
$25. S3O, $35. Also five
prize hens, one cock and
one cockerel, winning
at ’Dalton. Ga.. and
(’hattanooga. Tenn.,
shows. Write for
prices.
Geo. M. Moseley
MENLO. GA.
