Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-10-16
To Beginners.

an innumerable amount Of disease.
S Let nothing but the best for your
bree ding stock Sell your customers
just what tkey order. II you sell eggs
pa, k them carefully and let them be
the latest edition. If birds, sell MOTH
NJ but Standard fowls at any rice,
aithou ,h you should bear in mind that
the erfect bird viii never be seen in
this word, so it certainly will not be
found in your flock.
If you are to buy breeding stock,
strike out boldly, but not in the dark.
Buy good birds at good prices, taking
fewer for tn. amount of money you
can invest, rather than getting the
greatest number possible. Even then,
you should not expect every chicken
to b, as good as its parents.
Buy now, before fowls are fully ma
tured. 1t is both interesting and pro-
fitable to observe them while they are
developing.
Buy now, before severe cold wealth
er sets in, when fowls are liable to be
injured in transportation.
Buy now AID let your fowls become
acquainted with their new quarters be-
fore the breeding season arrives.
Buy early, when low prices prevail.
Fanciers viii demand much higher fig
ures next spring. Ard justly, for it
will have cost them a considerable
sum to keep their focKs through the
intervening months.
Buy now, before the best birds are
culled from breeders yards. You will
have a better choice now than you
will have even six weeks hence, for
many birds will change hands in that
time, preparatory to the early exhibit
tons.
When fowls arrive use little pre-
caution in the form of sulphur. Put
some in pepper box, open the feathers
on all parts of the body, and sprinkle
it fully Then provide dry bath of
sand or coal ashes; wood ashes are
not as good, but may be mixed with
fresh earth and will answer well. If by
any possibility the fowls were infested
with vermin, this course of treatmen,
will prevent its spread and destroy it
Above all, do not take it for grant
ed that everything is ''all right" At
every opportunity look and see ifsuch
Is the fact. Examine the fowls. and
use them in such a manner that 1t will
be no trouble to pick them up
wherever they are without the danger
of dlslocatlng their joints, or wrench
ing their Joints, or wrenching their
limbs 10 lamenesS.
1t pays to be gentle and decent to
all inferior creatures. nowhere more SC
than in dealing with poultry. Ii it be
possible let your fowls run on the gras:
with dry sandy opening for "wallow'
ing" purposes, but in every case avoie
clayey soil and swampy land. Shade
from the hot sun Is desirable; but toe
much shade IN winter and in damp
weather is one of the causes that lead.
to poultryman's bankruptcy. Better
too little shade than too much
And one thing more-see TO It that tht
entire premises occupied by your fowl.
are kept clean fresh and wholesome
If you ar. circumscrbed In the room
you can devote to poultry purposes
much can be done in this direction t,
ofse. the drawbacks. But, as we urg
ed above, do not attempt to crowe
great numbers into single enclosure
better to devide and redivide tn
space and the flock, lsolatlng the va
rious small groups as much as possibl
for the temptation to oVercrowd is a
the foundation Of more than one man
defeat IN the poultry business.
While great many have in the pa:
few years won success IL the breedin
OF poultry and we speak now princi
pally of the finer grades. it is fac
which we should not attempt to con
ceal, that good many have, for on
reason or another. gone out of it wit
more or less of the aroma of failure
about their skirts. OF course Their
are great many who will never sue
coed In anything, not to speak of S
delicate and paInstaking an experi
ment as poultry breeding; men VIII
take Up everything that comes to the
finger, and lay the last new bubbl
down to pursue another, with no fixe
purpose and no guiding star IN lif,
These persons are found in every con-
munity, and need no further descril
ton. Where their traits are know
they do little harm-that is anon
those who do business on a cash basis
Then there is another class, let u
hope comparatively small, who are f
only TO breed wolves and polar bear:
pets with whom their own nature
most assimilate, and with whom tn
struggle would be on a more ever
scale, as social philosophers say, NOR
likely to insure the survival OF the iii
test" These men pounce about thel
yards armed with stones, sticks an
clubs, and woe betide the poor fowl
that venture within their reach @
aim. The only bird likely to receiv,
decent usage at the hands of such is
dead Game cock, 4" and it is rather
pity that the days of the Roman aren
are over, for the kee5er ought to hav
chance to see how it is himself. Sue
breeders get few eggs. their chick