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The following morsel is from
Poultry Topics, and illustrates very
plainly the difference between the i'm
proved breeds of fowls and the old
time barn-yard fowl, as we'll as some
other good hints;
A short time ago saw farmer
drive up to poultry dealers estab-
lishment with large COOP full of
fowls, and wishing 10 learn what
prices were being paid, I walked over
there.
IN give you 4 for them" said
the dealer as came up.
"What's that fur?' asked the farmer.
"Didn't ye give Mrs. Johnson eight
fur hern yesterdays
II did" replied the dealer.
Then why amt We goin' to give me
only four an half?'
"Simply because your chickens are
really not worth more than half what
Mrs. Johnson's are. If you don't
wish to take ~ you can haul them
away The fact is, I'd rather you
would than not"
Now look here, if my chickens
amt just as good as old Mrs. John
sons | want to know why, by gum
Chickens is chickens and meats meat,
an if my chickens amt got as good
meat on 'em as anybody's | want ter
know it right now"
Now, see here, my friend, don't get
hot under the collar, because it won't
do you any good. The meat on your
chickens is as good as that on some
others, but there isn't enough of it.
That's what's the matter. If you had
as much sense as Mrs Johnson you
wouldn't be raising such scrubby,
scrawny, mixed mongrels as these
you'd raise chickens like those she has
One of hers is worth more to me thar
two Of yours. Her chickens sell a;
fancy at the top prices, while yours
90 as poor mixed at the Lowest
prices
Ill be gosh wallowed if | can see
how hern are better'n mine
"Why, Of course you can't. You
don't know good chicken when 20,
see it. If you want to sell these 1o1
A. hoist them out and | will show yo'
the difference between yours and Mrs
Johnson's."
They were weighed and paid for, an'
the dealer called four pickers in
Pick four Of these chickens and bring
them back here in hurry" said he.
The farmer followed them out to Sc
that no "shenanigan" was played o.
him, and in a few minutes he returne'
with the birds picked clean. Poor
scrawny, shanky things they were.
Now, come here" said the dealer
leading the way to the cooling room
Going to shelf loaded with the incest
plumpest, meatiest birds ever saw
he laid the four among them, saying
} as he did so, "there are Mrs. johnson
chickens. See any difference, pardy
If you wanted chicken to eat, whic
, Of these would you buy"
I "Ahem, yaas; thar is some differ
ence, swan What sort O chicken
is them O. Mrs. Johnson's anyhow"
Those are pure Plymouth Rock
and if she had brought them in tw
/ weeks earlier l would have been gla
: to give her 10 cents a pound for then
She sold me fourteen dozen in Augu
, and l paid her 81 per dozen for then
: How's that for prices?
s 81 don't wonder that you are hal
up and down at the heel. Anyboo
a that raises bones and feathers ar
tries to sell them for CHECKER
: ought to be. Now 60 home and k'
off every bunch of bones and feathe
you have in your yard, then go over
Mrs. Johnson's and get new outf
take care of them like she does al
you will make some money"
"B'lieve III swap a settin' or two
eggs with her, or trade roosters,
somethin' Hearn that she wants
dollar piece fer her chickens, b
burned if I'll give it. Dollars is t.
skeerce."
Now don't rush over to the MI
Johnson of your neighborhood and of
to swap" her a setting of eggs fre
your mongrel hens for a setting
eggs from her thoroughbred slymou
Rocks-she won't trade! Why? 1
cause the eggs from your hens q
only worth the market price-l5 to
d cents per dozen, and only fit for Gu
n nary purposes, while eggs from M
t. Johnson's selected breeders are wol
n 81 per dozen, for the purposes
J which you want them, and are che
~ at that