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The Geomaini’s Poultry and Live Stock Page 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 111 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 FOFtERRTERSTTHE POULTRYMAN’S BEST FRIEND . fOL-JSw iMfeL .? • f- *' > 'aRKSSaBBL wMMig l ■ I Hv < \ JHMi I IB /WMB t £ K .« asM» ® MWMIBMWMBfc as Mag? 1 .wl 5 aHEmI a|| *E TWO OHO BIROS MD HI S3OO 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. i 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 I. 1 ' 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. a 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.