The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-17
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There Was some Dinerenoe.

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 well as some
other good hints:
A short time ago I saw a farmer
drive up to poultry dealers estab-
hshment with large coop full of
fowls, and wishing to learn what
prices were being paid, walked over
there.
''I'n give you ~ for them, said
the dealer as came up.
whats that fur?" asked the farmer.
Didn't ye give Mrs. johnson eight
fur hern yesterday"
ST did" replied the dealer.
''Then why amt ye 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 AZ you can haul them
away. The fact is, I'd rather you
would than not"
Now look-a-here, if my chickens
amt just as good as old Mrs. John
sons want to know why, by guml
Chickens is chickens and meats meat,
an if my chickens amt got as good
meat on 'em as anybody's I 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 than
two of yours. Her chickens sell as
fancy at the top prices, while yours
go as poor mixed at the lowest
prices.
''I'Il be gosh wal1owed if I can see
how hern are better'n mine''
''Why, of course you can't. You
don't know a good chicken when you
see it. If you want to sell these for
~ hoist them out and will show you
the difference between yours and Mrs.
Johnson's."
They were weighed and paid for, and
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 see
that no "shenanigan" was played on
him, and in a few minutes he returned
with the birds picked clean. Poor,
scrawny, shanl1y things they were.
''Now, come here" said the dealer,
leading the way to the cooling room.
Going to a shelf loaded with the incest,
plumpest, meatiest birds I ever saw,
he laid the four among them, saying,
as he did so, ''there are Mrs. Johnson's
chickens. See any difference, pardy?
If you wanted chicken to eat, which
of these would you buy?"
''Ahem, yaas; thar is some differ
ence, I swan! What sort o. chickens
is them o. Mrs. Johnson's anyhow"
''Those are pure Plymouth Rocks,
and if she had brought them in two
weeks earlier would have been glad
to give her 10 cents a pound for them.
She sold me fourteen dozen in August
and paid her 81 per dozen for them.
How's that for prices?
ST don't wonder that you are hard
up and down at the heel. Anybody
that raises bones and feathers and
tries to sell them for chickens
ought to be- Now go home and kill
off every bunch of bones and feathers
you have in your yard, then go over to
Mrs. Johnson's and get new outfit,
take care of them like she does and
you will make some money"
"B'lieve I'll swap settin' or two of
eggs with her. or trade roosters, or
somethin'! Hearn that she wants a
dollar piece fer her chickens, but
burned if I'll give it. Dollars is too
skeerce."
Now don't rush over to the Mrs.
johnson of your neighborhood and offer
to ''swap'' her a setting of eggs from
your mongre1 hens for a setting of
eggs from her thoroughbred Plymouth
Rocks-she won't trade! Why? Be-
cause the eggs from your hens are
only worth the market price-15 to 25
cents per dozen, and only fit for Gull
nary purposes, while eggs from Mrs.
Johnson's selected breeders are worth
50 per dozen, for the purposes for
which you want them, and are cheap
at that.