The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27
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Many country boys and girls who long
for some chance to make money for them
selves GOULD find a good profit in raising
pure-bred poultry. We say many, not
all, as only those will succeed who like
poultry and are willing to work and study.
Nothing pays for proper care more than
chickens, and sales of stock from pure
bred birds for breeding can DC made to
Increase the income in a handsome way.
Little capital is required, and it is strange
that so few have enterprise to engage in
It. The market is not overstocked, as not
Dne farmer in ten las a good strain OF
chickens.
If you contemplate going into the bust
ness begin on q small scale A trio of chick
ems is enough. but they should be good
Dnes. Start right and build up q good
reputation for your flock PatrOnize an
homes: breeder who will furnish what you
buy. Then il you have the capital buy two
Dr. three settings OF eggs from another
Breeder. and you are fairly started II
other chickens are kept. it will be neces-
sary to coop yours during the breeding
season. Build them q house remote from
She other chicken house, and teach them
40 roost in il away from the others. Use
Especial care to keep them pure, and never
use doubtful eggs Tor Matching.
All this seems easy, but the raising of
the young chicks is not half so easy as it
seems. fyour stock is evervsluable it will
be by skillful breeding and feeding. You
must learn what ones TO reject from the
breeding pens Ii may seem hard to Gull
put fourth or half OF your spring chicks
and cOnsign them 20 the pot after having
put high valuation on them when chicks,
but the rule must be invariabe that no
poor specimens will be allowed to leave
your crops for breeders nor be used by
yourself \ good strain in the beginning
and careful selection will soon reduce the
culls to point where the loss will be in
considerable.
Do not lie afraid Of some inbreeding if
you want to fix a special type, but when
fresh blood can be safely introduced use
1t. In doing so, get cockerels of prize-win-
ming strains-chickens that have been
bred with more skill than you possess,
and TINS build up your flock. Pure blood
Is good thing for any kind OF stock to
have. but do not make the mistake of sup
posing that it will make your birds sell
unless they have other merit. Pure blood
Is the foundation on which to build
There is plenty OF room for skill ia build
ing up good flock, and j. is a kind OF
skill that pays. Begin in a small way
and WORK up. You can make it pay.
Tire Future of Horse Breeding.
The normal annual increase in number
OF horses in this country is near 100000,
which is between 3 and per cent. We
greatly exceeded this number last year,
while it is doubtful whether the demand
was much greater than for the preceding
year owing 70 the extension of steam and
electricity as power for moving passen-
gers and freight We have no statistics at
hand determining this point, but the
tendency toward employing inanimate
power is very great. We hear on every
hand of the lessened demand for street
car horses, but other classes are affected
In a great degree. though in ways hardly
30 perceptible.
This is very true OF the common road
horses. People use them very little for
business. as faster means OF travel are at
hand for the great majority. Then, too,
they are found less commonly on farms
now, "a incomes do no; seem to justify
keeping an Idle horse for country travel
and the farm horses are made 20 do
double service. This is not as we would
like TO see it, but the fact tends TO lessen
the demand for road stock. Progress has
hnecteG draft STOCK equally, as without
such extension OF railroads and other pub
lie transportation means this class of
horses would be needed in number almos.
post conception.
The horse is getting too slow for many
Of our people and does not hold the place
be once did. but he is the most useful and
necessary Of animals. aud will always be
such. a half million increase annually is
In excess Of the requirements, however,
and we counsel our readers at this time to
produce only the best, as the inferior will