The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-03-11

Do you realize the amount of good
hard money you are losing every year
by so doing? Probably motif you
did you would lose no time in replace
ing them with something better, or
at least grading them up by using
thoroughbred males.
But you say "those fancy birds are
only TO look at, they don't lay eggs"
oh no, they don't lay eggs! They
lay corn er stones and brick walls and
things-no they don't lay eggs, in
deed.
will venture to remark that we
have one pen of 10 Light. Brahma
hens and one pen of 10 b. p. Rock
pullets that have laid more eggs in
the past two months than your whole
heard of 100 or more mengrels Our
egg record book is open for COMPARE
son. They were bred to lay and their
dams were good layers-blood will
tell in poultry as well as in any other
stock.
Standard bred poultry leads the
world. There is no class ofifowls that
come within hailing distance of them
either as egg producers or for the
table and every farmer who takes
pride In things, who takes a pride in
his home place should forswear Mon
grel chickens. should be displeased
at the sight of those vagabond mis-
fits 80 out of harmony with his ideal.
Not only this but you are losing
money by huuselng, caring for and
feeding those unsigbtly fowls for they
do not lay one half as many eggs as
the same plumber OF thorOughbreds or
are not as large in size by one half.
Facts are facts-investigate for your
self.
Standard bred birds or eggs can
now be purchased at such reasonable
prices and are so much better than
the Mongrels that the man or woman
who is looking out for number one
has really no excuse for tOlerating
understood, lay when-you- please, eat
all-they-can scrubs.
raise poultry than on Kansas farm.
then why not give them little atten-
ton ana make them pay you good
profit? Give them one-tenth the at
tention you do politics and they will
nay you ten fold better. On, you say,
otis not worth my while to fool with
hens, IT'S too little business"
Yes, it is, with MoDgral hens, sure
thing. But the other kind, the pay
ing kind, the thoroughbred its alto
gether different.
There are plenty of men today who
are clearing-mind | say clearing
one thousand dollars annually from
their "oid hens.u We have breed
er right here in this great state If
Kansas, whose egg sales for the
month of March last year amounted
TO over 500. Yet It's small (?) bust
ness
But you probably don't want to
make business of it. What you
want to do, what you ought to do is
to market these back number non
descrpts, select some good standard
breed and make start new on the
right road. start right, study things
as you 60 along aud in "a very short
time you will have flock of poultry
that will be some pleasure and proht
to you. You don't need to start with
fancy birds. A fancy show bird
must necessarily he thorough bred (;
but IL does not follow that thorough
bred must he a show bird, not by any
means, but he sure you get thorough
breds.
There are plenty of so called thor
ough breds in the county that are
really no better than scrubs. Buy
of a breeder who breeds for utility as
we'll as fancy and who has farm rails
ed stock You don't have to buy of
us. There are plenty of breeders who
have just as good stock AS we have
who will treat you right; hut he sure
YOU know who you are dealing with
and beware of II breeder who breeds
more than III varieties-the less the
better.
You might az we'll begin now TO
get in the htud wagon for in very
few wears at the outside, the Mongrel
hem wlsl be ttansplanled 10 Arkansas
soil along with the razor back hog
sure thing. Blood will tell
Yours for standard bred poultry,
FRED Il. SPICER, Geneva, Kan.
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