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CARD INDEX IS
REAL HELPMATE
Every Poultry Breeder Needs
One to Keep Un With His
Sales Prospects.
working io build up'l
i poultry business means th' takin, i
tdvsintage 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 he mailing out to the prospects. <
First comes the typewriter in Impor t
tance. It simplifies correspondence in 1
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 1
puts the seller in position to know what 1
Stage of the sale he is lit with the
Juyer. A common piece of heavy ma
nila paper will serve th hold the corre
•pondence 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
t>ne an Idea when to write again tn 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 500 blank cards un
der alphabetical arrangement will care
for the average business at the start
Esch Inquiry Is entered properly. The
stock or stuff ask'd about should be
entered with tin name and address
If catalog or mating list is sent out,
make note with peculiar mark or Initial
• letter and thereon keep a record of
what you do to the prospect and
whether he replies, and what he orders
Then what he has to say about what you
send him should also be entered Keep
a complete record "f your transactions
with him. This list will he 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, , gg- for hatch
ing both early and late. If you do not
from the Inquirer the second "r
third season, keep after him if you want
to sell to him eventually, savs one
breeder whose business runs into the
tens of thousands every season It max
be that you will strike a silling id <
some time that will get a sale fr an
him. It will not cost mote than twenty
to thirty cents to keep tn touch with
him for three to six years, according to
the amount of matter you mail out
every season
Ideas that lead to sal.B an perft t
cooping of stock, neat placates tai i
on them, the cleanliness of the bird if it
be white, leg bands on every bird hi; i
ped bearing your name, secret y In >hi .
ping a b’rd if it goes to a show and the
buyer prefers tha breeders do not
know that he has bought. I once saw a
bird on a transfer truck at a station
Two breeders were with me. (>ne oi
them bought of the shipper wit tin
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 sacrificed a
bseri. of sales for so doing, tine must
hutnoi tin buyer, rupee tally in giving
him what 1. wants—- Northwest I’oul
try Journal, _._.
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MONEY LOST BY INCORRECT
SYSTEM OF MARKETING EGGS
The producers of eggs are not re
ceiving as much for their eggs as they
should, considering the ultimate prices
paid by the consumers of these eggs.
This Is not the result df any combina
tion on the part of buyers to keep down
prices. f..r competition is usually sharp
'■mmgh t<> cause as much to be paid as
llic buyers can afford. The real reason
li - in the f;ici that the sx stem of mar
ketlng and Imx Ing eggs In this section
is fault', 'ml causes a good deal of pre
x'cptalde less and deterioration. This
is mainly because no incentive is of
fered for care and expeditious handling
of the product. In oilier 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 those
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. From
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 tha annual
loss is estimated at more than $1,000,-
000.
Eggs Poorly Marketed.
To explain the reason for this loss
and deterioration ft 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
| ■>§ POULTRY NOTES & |
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. Mlnorcas
fifth. Hamburgs sixth. Wyandottea
sixth. Cochins eleventh, Rhode Island
Reds seventeenth and Plymouth Rocks
eighteenth. The leader in numbers was
the Brabanconnes
The entire I'nlted States suffered
this spring from a shortage in the
chick crop I,ess 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
spring will mean that a number of
poultrymen will be setting eggs this
The live poultrymen who have
■ ggs for hatching are bound to do big
idvertlsing this fall in order to gathet
in th. late trade In eggs
The shortage in chickens all over
\merica this yea Is bound to result In.
higher prices for chickens and eggs.
T s< who have stuff to sell for the
[text twelve months will be able to sell
at a big profit.
Miss S. Carey, of Toynton. Spllsby,
Eng in< . breeder of White and Buff
Orpingtons, sold nearly SIO,OOO worth
of birds md hatching eggs In America
in the past season.
A poultry journal recently contained
the startling information that on a hot
ten hens would drink ten quarts of
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17. 1912.
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 kept
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 or to reach a more or less ad
vanced stage of actual spoiling. Even
in these eases where the Importance of
a low temperature is realized ami 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 barn they
are usually added to the eggs In the
market basket without question as to
whether they are partly incubated.
Case-Count System Bad.
As a result, the farmer may start ia
town with a basket of eggs, part or
which are perfectly fresh and whole
some, part of them dirty or smeared
and part of them shrunken or stale or
even 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
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
Tn 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 S 2 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 ear was on
a sidetrack somewhere above Tifton
Since that time two nests have been
found in the yards of <he 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 ears passes over her proba
bly twenty times a day, but it does not
disturb her. except to make het duck
het head to keen from being hit by the
cowcatcher ot brakebeams I' :<• car
inspector has been watching this nest :
for sotn. time. The old hen has been i
setting about two weeks.
price per dozen, which Is usually given
in 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
eggs 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 he 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 arc placed in storage or reach
the consumer, the deterioration xvhlch
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 two years old
The latest estimate of the shortage
on the poultry < top places it as fully
33 per cent. This moans money for
thosf who 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
tine 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.
I'iTi Kentucky State university of
Lexington, Ky has announced that
chicken breeding will be added to its
curriculum. A ftrm near Lexington
has been purchased where the science
I of the hen will be studied by the stu-
I dents of the school
NOW IS T' : TO'
BUY GOOD 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 who
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 oft 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 hfs 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) the 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 Ide 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 ft from second
rate or worse stock, and it is folly in
most eases 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
view, he 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 f-.-,m home, for I
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 Ads |
of The Georgian that there would not be ,
so many of them If. for nothing else, sit
down and cheek 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 -an be picked out very easy.
I If you sent a letter or telegram to the
| wr. tffe address. > >u would hardly expect
lan answer, would you? The same Is true
when you select the wrong medium to
I l ave all your wants filled Try the light
1 - »v—Tiie 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
8-17-13
FOR SALE —Twenty Barred Plymouth
Rock chickens; Ringlet strain; young
stock; good healthy birds; wire fence,
gates, new coops, tools, furniture, etc.;
cheap. 160 Oglethorpe are. 50-8-17
Orpingtons.
CRYSTAL White Orpington hens; one to
three dollars; young stock; bargain
prices to make room. Write us. Valley
view I-a rm. North Chattanooga, Tenn
BLACK ORPINGTONS—Cocks, hens
cockerels, pullets; summer prices. Hal
Riviere. Kirkwood, Ga. 33-8-9
Leghorns.
FOR SALE—ThoroughbredCf^W hite
Leghorn pullets. Beauties. E. B. Har
vey. Box 81. l.ithonia. Ga. 67-8 17
Anconas.
BARGXINS—A few pairs of four-month
old Anconas; $1.25 each; superior rtock
Cole & George, Atlanta. Ga. 8-15-6
Bantams.
B i. N 2.’-* MS '~ Game Bantams, Sebrfghts.
Buff Cochins Carlisle Cobb. Athens
-26-31
Wyandottes.
GOLDEN LACED and Columbian Wyan
dottes. S. C. R. I. Reds; eggs, $1 and
$2 per lo W D Bennett, Molena, Ga
Ducks.
FOR SALE—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 tine White Indian
Runner ducks. Mrs. Frank O. Miller.
Fort Valley. Ga. 8-15-24
INDIAN RENNER DUCKS—Either pen
ciled or fawn and white at $1 each; good
ones; time yet to raise stock; order today.
Munnimaker Poultry Farm, Normandv,
Tenn. 5-25-3
Doves.
FOR SALE—Nineteen young White and
Fawn I. R. ducks. .lust grown. A bar
gain at $22. or $1 and $2 each. Can be
seen opposite Federal prison. G. \V.
Hughes. Box 1733, Atlanta. 94-8-17
FOR SALE- White doves, ring doves,
fancy pigeons, guinea pigs, white rats,
white mice, rabbits, canary birds. Ad
| dress John M. Ornelias, 1719 East Mason
street. Springfield. 111. 25-8-17
Pigeons.
TWO PAIRS English runts, three pairs
Maltese hens. sls; worth $25. Guy Ta
bler. College Park. Ga 69-8-17
Miscellaneous Poultry. Miscellaneous Poultry.
hTgThastings & co.
SEEDSMEN FOR THE SOUTH, 16 WEST MITCHELL STREET
FOUR CITY DELIVERIES DAILY. NORTH AND SOUTH
SIDE 9 A. M., INMAN PARK AND WEST END 2 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
Fall 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.
us make you special quotations on the grain that
you are going to need this season.
SPRATT’S NO. SCHICKMEAL, 50 pounds $3.00
100 pounds $5.50.
KEEP BEFORE YOUR HENS the “Red Comb” MeTt
Mash. Ft is a well balanced food, being composed
of wheat bran, shorts, beef scraps, alfalfa meal, corn
meal and a little charcoal, [f you feed 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. pounds $1.20, 100 pounds $2.35.
ONLY A FEW SAGO PALM 7 BUEBS left. price
10c a pound, 3 pounds 25c. By mail add 10c a
pound.
PAPER WHITE NARCISSUS BULBS 25. a
postpaid 40c a dozen.
WHITE ROMAN HYACINTH BULBS lo<- ;1 dTzTT
postpaid 50c a dozen.
OGEMAW PIGEON EEIFF7T7“fr..m h p
composed of wheat, kaffir corn, buckwheat, millet
and Canadian peas —7 pounds 25c. 100 pounds $3.25.
IT IS EASY to keep Hies away from vour horse, cow
or stable with Conkey’s Fly Knocker. It does not
have to be diluted: can be sprayed directly on the an
imal. One quart 35c. 2 quarts 60c, 1 gallon SI.OO.
RUST’S HAVEN ROUPPILLS to? Tnd
diseases, 2oc and 50c a box.
GET CONKEY’S HEAD LICE OINTMENT for lit
tle chicks that are troubled with head lice. It is
easy to apply, ami is sure death- 10c ami 25c.
ALUMINUM DOUBLE CLINCH lEG BANDS, all
sizes: numbered from 1 to 100. 15c a dozen. 2 doz
, en 25c, 75c a hundred.
'WE ARFhEADQUARTERS lor galvanized W
drinking founts, grit and shell boxes, feed pans and
food hoppers.
ONCE TRIED you will never f. <■.] anything but The
“Red Comb” feeds. Put up in all sizes from the
youngest to the oldest fowls.
A REMEDY FOR ALL POULTRY DISEASES
Phone us your trouble.
Eggs.
WHITE 'WYANDOTTE
EGGS.
FROM extra fine pen of the famous Fish
el strain bred-to-lay birds; unexcelled
for beauty and vitality: $3 per fifteen.
Mrs. Ella M Harrison, College Park.
-10-74
THOROUGHBRED Buff Orpington eggs,
$1 per fifteen. $5 per hundred. 126 Wind
sor street. Main 3a88.4-27-25
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
A- Haywood. 166 Springfield ave., Guvton.
Ga. B-17-4
FOR SALE Have purchased Northern
breeder's entire flock I lack Orpingtons.
My prices will move them rapidly. 300
old and young W E. Lumley, Tulla
homa, Tenn. 3-30-2
BILTMttitE strain Barren Rocks and S.
C. White Leghorns; eggs for hatching;
fifteen for' $1.50. BILTMORE Jersey
calves for sale. Address BILTMORE
Farms, BILTMORE, N. C. 1-27-7#
CHLO RO- N Al9' iW. EU DiK
AND
LIVE STOCK DISINFECTANT.
GET RID of chicken Her and keep your
poultry healthy. Chloro-Naptholeum
ones th® work, prevents roup, gape and
other diseases: one quart. 50c: one half
gallon. 90c: one gallon. $1.50 West Dis
infecting Company, 26 South Forsvth
street, Atlanta. 7-23-22
Rabbits.
IOR SALE—Belgian hares of rare qual-
ity, tine breeders, from healthy stock,
at reasonable prices. Address R' V H .
Box ins Route No. 3. Atlanta. Ga.
Phone Main 4194 L. 8-17-12
Hogs.
ONE Berkshire Gilt and four pigs (rea>
Istered) for $35.00 if taken at once.
One very fine boar one year old at $30.00.
No better bred hogs in Georgia I' I'
Preston, Broxton. Ga. 8-17-40
It's like getting money from home, for
it's money easily made bj' 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 Ads
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 bow 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
