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The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page
THREE PRIZE WINNERS WITH FINE RECORDS
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White Orpington cock owned by Rhodesville
Poultry Farms, Athens.
CARD INDEX IS
REAL
Every Poultry Breeder Needs
One to Keep Up With His
Sales Prospects.
Systematically working to build up
a poultry business means the taking
advantage of every facility that will aid
it. Every poultryman. no matter what
the size of his business, should have a
little corner in which he can keep rec
ords. correspondence and material that
he may be mailing out to the prospects.
First comes the typewriter In impor
tance. It simplifies correspondence in
that a letter is easily read and re-read,
a carbon is had of the reply to each
letter and pinned to the query always
puts the seller in position to know what
stage of the sale he is in with the
buyer. A common piece of heavy ma
nila paper will serve to hold the corre
spondence of one buyer if it is volumi
nous. This folder can have on its out
side the name of the correspondent and
be the container of all that man's let
ters. It can be filed in one of the
cheap letter files that may be had any
where for thirty to fifty cents. Where
the business is small I would advise
the seller to keep a plain sheet of pa
per on his desk with the name of each
live prospect thereon and when he
should reply to letters. This will give
one an Idea when to write again to fol
low up the former negotiations. This
is the secret of the forty variety man s
success. He answers according to form
your first inquiry, answering specifical
ly all your questions, then later if you
do not reply he calls again with a gen
eral letter that impresses the former
one. They even have four or five fol
lowers and eventually land the order of
the prospect intends to buy.
A card index of 50ft blank cards un
der alphabetical arrangement will cate
for the average business at the start
Each inquiry is entered properly. The.
stock or stuff asked about should be
entered with the name and address.
If catalog or mating list is sent out,
make note with peculiar mark or initial
letter and thereon keep a record ot
■what you do to the prospect and
whether he replies, and what he orders
Then what he has to sav about what you
send him should also be entered. Keep
*. complete record of your transactions
with him. This list will be the back
bone of your business.
You will know from it whom to send
subsequent advertising during special
sales that you may have of breeding
stock, surplus breeders, eggs for hatch
ing both early and late. If you do not
hear from the inquirer the second or
third season, keep after him if you want
to sell to him eventually, says one
breeder whose business runs into tin
tens of thousands every season. It may
be that you will •-trike a selling idea
some time that will get a sale from
him. It will not cost more than twenty
to thirty cents to keep in touch with
him for three to six years, according to
the amount of matter you mail out
every season. i
Ideas that lead to sales are perfect
cooping of stock, neat placards tacked
on them, the cleanliness of the bird if it
be white, leg bands on every bird ship
ped bearing your name, secrecy in ship
ping a bird If it goes to a show and the
buyer prefers tha breeders do not
know that he has bought. 1 once saw a
bird on a transfer truck at a station
Two breeders were with me. tine ot
them bought of the shipper within
two weeks owing to the impression
the shipment made on him. Another
breeder sent a bird to a Chicago show
with his name and address placarded
about the coop, after being urged to
ship inconspicuously, and sacrifici d a
series of sales for so doing, tine must
Immm the buyer, especially in giving
h:m what he wants.—Nurtltwesl X’vul
MONEY LOST BY INCORRECT
SYSTEM OF MARKETING EGGS
The producers of eggs are not re- l
ceiving as much for their eggs as they 1
should, considering the ultimate prices '
paid by the consumers of those eggs. ,
This Is not the result of any comblna- .
tion on the part of buyers to keep down i
prices, for competition is usually sharp 1
enough to cause as much to be paid as 1
the buyers can afford. The real reason ’
lies in the fact that tin system of mar- ,
keting and buying eggs in this section
is faulty and causes a good deal of pre
ventable loss and deterioration. This
Is mainly because no incentive is of
fered for care and expeditious handling
of the product. In other words, the
careful farmer who markets good eggs
as a rule gets no more for them than
his careful neighbor who markets poor
ones. As a result of this loss, prices
paid to producers must be depressed to
cover It, and this accounts for the differ,
ence between the prices paid for these
eggs and the prices charged the con
sumers.
At first glance it might be thought
that this loss and deterioration was
slight and of minor importance. Quite
the contrary, however, is the case. Front
a careful study made of the situation, it
appears that the annual loss resulting
from.these sources In the egg trade of
the country totals about 15 per cent of
the value of the product, or $45,000,000.
In the state of Kansas alone the annual
loss Is Estimated at more than $1,000.-
000.
Eggs Poorly Marketed.
To explain the reason for this loss
and deterioration It is necessary to out
line briefly the usual method of market
ing eggs in this section.
, The eggs, as previously stated, are
produced on the general farm. The
income from these is considerable and
very welcome, but Is. after all, inci
dental The care and attention given
I tg POULTRY NOTES go n
In the recent International poultry
show at Brussels, Belgium. breeds
known and prized In America were
strongly represented. Orpingtons stood
second in the number entered. Minorca®
fifth. Hamburgs sixth. Wyandottes
sixth, Cochins eleventh, Rhode Island
Reds seventeenth and Plymouth Rocks
eighteenth. The leader in numbers was
the Rrabaneonnes.
The entire United States suffered
this spring from a shortage in the
chick crop. Ivess eggs were set than
usual, owing to the bad weather, the
percentage of fertility ran low and a
larger number of chicks died than is
usual. This fact Is being demonstrated
by a national poultry magazine which
is canvassing the entire country.
The shortage In the chick crop this
i spring will mean that a number of
poultrymen will be setting eggs this
fall. The live poultrymen who have
’ eggs for hatching are bound to do big
advertising this fall in order to gather
: in the late trade in eggs
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The shortage in chickens all over
America this year is bound to result In
, higher prices for chickens and eggs,
i Those who have stuff to sell for the
i next twelve months will be able to sell
• at a big profit.
1 Miss S Carey, of Toynton, Spllsby.
England, breeder of White and Ruff
, Orpingtons, sold nearly SIO,OOO worth
J of birds and hatching eggs in America
a in the past season
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* A poultry journal recently contained
the startling information that on a hot
day ten hens AOUIU d.iuk ten qudt'lt of
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owned by Rendotte farm, Atlanta.
the fowls and the product, are. there
fore, usually incidental also. The farm
er gathers the eggs whenever conve
nient; sometimes each day, sometimes
two or three times a week. The eggs
are brought to the house and kept un
til there Is a sufficient number to take
to the village or until the farmer makes
a trip to the village for some, other
purpose and takes the eggs along. No
particular attention is given to the con
ditions under which the eggs are
in the meantime. They may be kept
in a pantry or cupboard of the kitchen,
where the temperature is comparative
ly high and where the eggs are bound
to undergo considerable deterioration
in quality o? to reach a more or less ad
vanced stage of actual spoiling. Even
in these cases where the Importance of
a low temperature is realized and an
effort made to secure this by placing
the eggs in a cellar, there is likelihood
that the cellar may be damp, and the
eggs in consequence become moldy.
Likewise, no particular effort is made
to obtain clean eggs by proper attention
to the nests and by frequent gathering,
or to separate the clean from the soiled
eggs when taking them to market.
Whenever a nest of eggs is discovered
in the weeds or about the bam they
are usually added to the eggs in the
market basket without question as to
whether they arc partly Incubated.
Case-Count System Bad.
As a result, the farmer may start to
town with a basket of eggs, part of
which are perfectly fresh and whole
some, part of them dirty or smeared
and part of them shrunken or stale or
ewn wholly spoiled. During the drive
to town it Is a common occurrence for
the eggs to be exposed to the direct rays
of the sun for an hour or two and sub
jected. therefore, ,to a temperature
greater than the normal temperature
of Incubation, 103 degrees F. These
eggs the farmer takes to the village
store and receives for them a certain
water in 24 hours. We doubt it. though,
unless they were mighty leaky.
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The long-drawn-out argument, "dry
mashes or wet mashes —which" seems
likely to end in a general verdict in fa
vor of the dry mash.
Blue jays are said to attack little
chickens. They usually strike at their
heads until they kill them, then fre
quently pick their eyes out and often
break their heads open and eat ’ the
brains.
In the national egg-laying contest at
Mountain Grove. Mo., the Rose Comb
Reds are leading. with the White
Plymouth Rocks second. One hen has
established a record by laying 82 eggs
VALDOSTA HENS GO IN
FOR RAILROAD NESTS
VALDOSTA, GA.. Aug. 17.—A few
weeks ago a freight train rolled into
this station with an old hen setting
on twelve eggs in the truck. It is said
the eggs were laid while the car was on
a sidetrack somewhere above Tifton.
Since that time two nests have been
found in the yards of the Atlantic Coast
Line, both of them being on a track
that has been in use dozens of times a
day by switch engines and trains. One
of the hens has hatched out ten small
biddies and is raising them. The other
is setting on a nest between the rails
A train of eats passes over her proba
bly twenty times a day, but it does not
disturb her, except to make her duck
her head to keep from being hit by the
eoweatchrr or brakebeams. The car
inspector has been watching this nest
for some time. The old hen has b< eti
setting about two weeks.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 17. 1912
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price per dozen, which is usually given
ifi trade. The village store keeper is
not a dealer in eggs from choice, but
rather because he feels it necessary to
take the ggs in order to keep the
trade of the farmer. If he does not
take the eggs he fears that the farmer
will offer them to one of his competi
tors and will in consequence be likely
to give that competitor the bulk of his
trade. For the same reason the mer-
' chant believes that he must accept the
yggs as they run, good or bad, fresh or
stale, clean or dirty, for if he does not
his competitors will. This system of
buying by the store keeper is known
as the case-count system.
The merchant holds the eggs until
he has enough to make a shipment to
some egg dealer or shipper from whom
he gets regular quotations. The delay
here may be anywhere from two days
to a week or even two weeks. Usually
the conditions attendant upon the
shipment of these eggs up to the time
they reach the packing house are such
as to cause a still further deteriora
tion in the eggs. After they reach the
packing house they are assembled in
great numbers so that more attention
and care is given their handling, and,
although the eggs go through one or
more sets of hands from this point be
fore they are placed in storage or reach
the consumer, the deterioration which
they undergo is not so great propor
tionately.
Delay in Moving Eggs.
It will be observed that the one un
favorable factor which stands out most
prominently in this system of market
ing is the delay in moving the eggs.
There is delay in gathering the eggs,
delay in taking them to town, and de
lay on the part of the store keeper.
Whenever these delays are coincident
with high temperatures, serious loss
and deterioration result. This is evi
denced by the poor quality of summer
eggs.
in 82 days. She is a White Plymouth
Rock and I wo years old.
The latest estimate of the shortage
on the poultry crop places it as fully
33 per cent. This means money for
those w ho have stock.
French cooks claim that the La-
Bresse variety is the greatest in the
world for eating. As these fowls are
very hardy and good foragers, it is
likely that they will soon be bred in
this country.
Kill off the old hens. They aren't
worth their keep. Get them before they
begin to moult, if you can. fatten them
up and eat them. They aren't half bad.
if cooked right.
An English recipe for the disposal of
ancient birds follows: Allow the fowl
to simmer gently—in just sufficient wa.
ter to cover it—for twelve to fourteen
hours, until tender. Strain off the li
quid and remove bone and skin from
the meat, which should then be minced
fine while hot. Add nutmeg or other
flavoring, season to taste and return
to liquid. Bake in crust.
Owing to a misunderstanding, the
dates of the Louisiana Poultry Fan
ciers association show at New Orleans
have been changed to December 19 to
, 22—that is. one week later than Was
previously selected.
Tin Kentucky State university of
Lexington, Ky has announced that
chicken breeding will be added to Its
curriculum A firm near Lexington
has been purchased where the science
of the In n will be studied by the stu
dents of the school
■ IS TIME TO
BUY 0000 STOCK
Breeders as Low in Price as
They Will Ever Get—Ad
vances Begin Soon.
By H. V. MARX.
Now that the breeding season is over
and the matings are being broken up,
there are always some birds that the
high-class poultrymen wish to dispose
of. They are mostly good enough to
grace" the high-class breeding pen
Right now is the time for those wh'
contemplate purchasing stock to take
advantage of the opportunity to get
new blood or better Stock for future
use at a price of one-third to one-half
what the same fowls will bring later in
the season.
The early buyer gets the best selec
tion. It is better, too, for the fowls to .
be moved to their new quarters before
the hens begin laying. It is a great
mistake to put off the purchase of
breeding stock until the next breeding
season. One who does this pays more
for his stock and in addition runs the
risk of losing the earlier and better
part of the season, for the laying and
hatching results are likely to be poor
while the fowls are becoming accus
tomed to their new conditions.
For the man who wishes to embark
in the poultry business, let him choose
and keep one variety—and let his pur
chase be of the best he can obtain, and
after his skill in breeding has in
creased' then it is time enough to think
of another variety.
It takes considerable time, patience
and money to breed one variety to a
high state of excellence, therefore it
behooves us in buying stock to make
our purchases from those who devote
their entire time to one breed of fowls,
for in so doing, stock of the kind want
ed will be found more quickly and at
less cost by limiting the search to the
breeders of a single variety than by
extending it to the breeders of all va
rieties, and right here let me say that I
would rather have (if I could*not afford
the best) |he progeny of the cheapest
birds that come from a line of pedi
greed stock, that have won premiums
years after year, for they have a breed
ing value all their own, than to pur
chase stock that has been bred in a hit
and miss fashion even though they
score high in a show room.
It is presumed the buyer knows what
kind of stock he needs. That is the
kind of stock he should buy. If he
wants to produce first-rate stock of
any kind he can not do it from second
rate or worse stock, and it is folly in
most cases to grade up inferior stock;
it is to refuse to accept in full the re
sults of the work of the best breeders.
Whatever object a poultryman has in
uiew. be can not afford to buy stock,
other than the best suited for that ob
ject. These fowls purchased are bar
gains for those prepared to give the
stock proper care.
It's like getting money from Home, for
it's money easily made by reading, using
an<l answering the Want Ads in The
Georgian. Few people realize the many
opportunities offered them among the
small ads. It's a good sign that if the peo
ple did not get results from the Want Ads
of The Georgian that there would not be
so many of then. If. for nothing else, sit
down and check off the ads that appeal to
you You will be astonished how many of
them mean money to you. The Want Ad
pages are bargain counters in every line.
The ads are so conveniently arranged that
’ they can be picked out very easy.
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If you sent a letter or telegram to the
wrong address, you would hardly expect
an answ.r. would you? The same is true
when yo i aelect the wrong medium to
rave all your wauto filled Try the rlg tt
wa>—The Georgian Want Ad way.
Plymouth Rocks..
BARGAIN in chickens, Buff Rocks, from
best strain. Must go at cut price to
make room for young stock. Entire flock
under three years old. Address Box 108,
Route No. 3. Atlanta. Ga. Phone Main
4194 L. 8-17-13
FOR S.YLE—Twent .■ Barred Plymouth
Rock chickens: Ringlet strain; young
stock: good healthy birds; wire\ fence,
gates, new coops, tools, furniture, etc.:
cheap. 160 Oglethorpe ave. 50-8-17
Orpingtons.
CRYSTAL White Orpington hens; one to
three dollars; young stock: bargain
prices to make room Write us. Valley
View Farm, North Vhattanooga, Tenn
Bl ACK ORPINGTONS- -Cocks, hens,
cockerels, pullets; summer prices. Hal
Riviere, Kirkwood. Ga. 33-8-9
Leg-horns.
FOR SALE—Thoroughbred S. C. White
Leghorn pullets. Beauties. E. B. Har-'
vey, Box 81, Lithonia. Ga. 67-8-17
Anconas.
BAIJGAINS- A few pairs of four-month
old Anconas; $1.25 each; superior rtock
Cole & George. Atlanta, Ga 8-15-6
Bantams.
BANTAMS—Game Bantams. Sebrlghts.
Buff Cochins Carlisle Cobb, Athens,
Ga 4-26-39
Wy and ottes.
GOL?SEN LACED and Columbian Wyan
dottes. S. C. R. I. Reds; eggs, $1 and
$2 per 15. W. D. Bennett, Molena, Ga.
. 12-13-33
Ducks.
FOR SAI E—White and Fawn Indian
Runner ducks; three drakes and twelve
ducks; nicely marked, white and fawn;
pure white egg strain; S2O for the lot;
have also a few very fine White Indian
Runner ducks. Mrs. Frank 0. Miller.
Fort Valley, Ga. 8-15-24
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS- -Either pen
ciled or fa-wn and white at $1 each: good
ones; time yet to raise stock; order today.
Munnimaker Poultry Farm, Normandy.
Tenn. 5-25-3
Doves.
FOR SALE—Nineteen young White and
Fawn I. R. ducks. Just grown. A bar-
■ gain at $22. or $1 and $2 each. Can be
seen opposite Federal prison. G. W.
Hughes. Box 1733, Atlanta.,94-8-17
FOR SAI.E —White doves, ring doves,
fancy pigeons, guinea pigs, white rats,
white mice, rabbits, canary birds. Ad
dress John M. Orneiias, 1719 East Mason
street, Springfield, 111. ,25-8-17
Pigeons.
TWO PAIRS English runts, three pairs
Maltese hens, sls; worth $25. Guy Ta
blet, College Park. Ga. 69-8-17
Miscellaneous Poultry. Miscellaneous Poultry. j
H G HASTINGS & ca
SEEDSMEN FOR THE SOUTH. 16 WEST MITCHELL STREET.
FOUR CITY DELIVERIES DAILY. NORTH AND SOUTH
SIDE 9 A. M„ INMAN PARK AND WEST END " P M
' BELL PHONE M. 2568, ATLANTA 2568.
WE CAN SUPPLY YOU with all kinds of turnip
seed. Write for a copy of our 1912 Summer and
Eall Seed Catalogue.
■ LEE'S GERMOZONE, The poultry medicine. For
roup, cholera, swelled head. etc. ' Both liquid and
tablet form 50c. Tablets can be sent by mail. x
us make you special quotations on the grain that
you are going to need this season.
_ STOATf ;
100 pounds $5.50.'
KEEP BEFO R E YOUR HENS The “RedTkimb '’ Meat
- Mash. It is a well balanced food, being composed
of wheat bran, shorts, beef scraps, alfalfa meal, corn
meal and a little charcoal. If you it to your hens
regularly you will find that it will help them while »
moulting and will start them to laying early. For
young and old ducks you can't get a better food. Price
10 pounds 25c, 50 poupds $1.20, .100 pounds $2.35.
“only A FI£W~SAGO "paTaT bItt.BS left.
10c h pound, 3 pounds 25c. By mail add 10c a
pound/
PAPEt? ‘WHITE NARCISSUS BULBS~2S7T
postpaid 40c a dozen.
"WHITE ROMAN II Y.\( IXTII BULBS |o<- 7 d7en
postpaid 50c a dozen. >
()(Il.MA\\ PIGEON FEED is free from corn. It is
composed of wheat, kaffir corn, buckwheat, millet
and Canadian peas—7 pounds 25c, 100 pounds $3.25.
IT IS EASY to keep flies away from your horse, cow
or stable with Conkey's Fly Knocker. It does not
have to be diluted: can be, sprayed directly on the an- z
iinal. One quart 35c. 2 quarts 60c, 1 gallon SI.OO.
RUST’S HAVEN ROUP PILLS for Tmp and pigeon *
diseases, 25c and 50c a. box.
"get CONKEY’S HEAD LICE OINTMENT fbrliL
tie chicks that are troubled with head lice. It is
easy to apply, and is sure death —10c and 25c.
ALUMINUM DOUBLE CLINCH LEG BANDSTdi
sizes; numbered from 1 to 100. 15 ( . a dozen. 2 doz- <<
en 25c. 75c a hundred. \
WE ARE HEADQI ARTERS for galvanized iron
drinking founts, grit and shell boxes, feed pans and
food hoppers.
ONCE TRIED you will never feed anything buTThe
“Red Comb" feeds. Put up in all sizes from the
youngest to the oldest fowls.
\ remedy for aliTpoultry l> IsE ,\ S ES.
Phone us vour trouble
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WHITE WYANDOTTE
EGGS.
FROM extra fine pen of the famous Fish
el strain bred-to-lay birds; unexcelled
for beauty and vitality; $:: per fifteen.
Mrs. Ella Ar. Harrison, College Park.
8-10-74
THOROUGHBRED Buff Orpington eggs,
$1 per fifteen. $5 per hundred. 126 Wind
sor street. Main 3588.4-27-25
Miscellaneous Poultry.
FOR SALE—Forty R. C. R. I. Red Hens
and seven Cocks to go cheap. One
Orpington Cock to go same way, or will
swap any number of these for same value
of White Wyandottes or White I. R.
Ducks. Wire Grass Poultry Farm, Brox
ton, Ga. 8-17-33
EGGS FOR HATCHING, after Sept. 1.
Baby chicks after Oct. 1. From our
high-grade. vigorous. prize-winning
strains of White Leghorns. Buff Orping
tons and White Plymouth Rocks. Fall
prices very low. Send for them. Bacon
& Haywood, 166 Springfield ave., Guyton,
Ga. H-17-4
FOR SALE—Have purchased Northern
breeder’s entire flock T ack Orpingtons.
IMy prices will move them rapidly. 300
old and young. W. E. Lumley, Tulla
homa, Tenn. 3-30-2
BILTMORE stram Barred Rocks and S.
C. White Leghorns; eggs for hatching;
fifteen for Si.so. BILTMORE Jersey
calves for sale. Address BILTMORE
Farms, BILTMORE. N. C. 1-27-70
CHLORO-NAPTHOLEUM-^DIP
LIVE STOCK' DISINFECTANT.
GET RID of chicken lice and keep your
poultry healthy. Chloro-Naptholeum
does tlm work, prevents roup, gape and
other diseases: one quart. 50c: one-half
gallon. 90c: one gallon. $1.50. West Dis
infecting Company, 26 South Forsyth
street. Atlanta. 7-23-22
Rabbits.
FOR SALE—Belgian hares of rare qual-
ity. fine breeders, ft-om healthv stock,
at reasonable prices. Address R V H
Box 108. Route No. 3. Atlanta. Ga'
Phone Main 4194 L. 8-17-12
Hogs.
ONE Berkshire Gilt and four pigs (reg
istered) for $35.00 if taken at once.
One very fine boar one year old at S3O 00
No better bred hogs in Georgia. F. Fi
Preston, Broxton, Ga. 8-17-+0
It’s like getting money from home, for
it's money easily made by reading, using
and answering the Want Ads in The
Georgian. Few people realize the many
opportunities offered them among the
small ads. It’s a good sign that if the peo
ple did not get results from the Want Ada
of The Georgian that there would not be
so many of them. If. for nothing else, sit
down and check off the ads that appeal to
you. You will be astonished how many of
them mean money to you. The 11’3111 Ad
pages are bargain counters in every line.
The ads are so conveniently arranged that
they can be picked out very easy.