Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-28
Pure Bred Poultry.

-, tFrom the Poultry Farmer)
Nolu las gone Quito The people living
on the farm that nobody but tine fancier
should nave pure bred poultry. This Is
taken up by farmers who keep mongrels
aud they use 1t as an excuse for keeping
the kinds they do keep. The arguement
is that fowl is fowl and the fancier
has TO Keep pure bred poultry because he
Is selling for breeders and since the COM
mercIal poultryman is not doing this he
don't have to keep that kind. There new
er was any greater need of pure bred
poultry than right now and it has
reached out until 1T includes commercial
poultry as well as breeders. Eggs are
getting to be great thing in the COM
merece of the world. They are used for
50 many purposes the demad is all the
year round for them and 1t begins to look
as II the market would never be glutted.
For taole use they are IN demand
winter and summer and many breeders
manage their yards SO they can supply
them winter midsummer. To have hens
that will lay eggs so as to make them
profitable they should be pure bred.
One of Swifts men who has the manage
ment OF the poultry killery OF this large
firm says of mongrel and pure bred
poultry substantially as follows: Poul-
try that is properly fitted brings more
than that which is gathered up-aud sold
regardless of age finish or condition.
We may have some mongrels that are
from Arkansas and some of the same age
which are pure Plymouth Rocks from
Iowa. We would sell the former at
nine cents and the latter at twelve and
one-half per pounds. We get good birds
from Missouri, the best from iowa and
very good ones from Illinois. The
mougrel is not as good for the breeder,
the buyer, nor the consumer. In more
remote sections where grub stock is kept
we get the mongrel stock, which is never
IN good demand and must be sold for
what 1t will bring. The importance of
pure breo poultry is not appreciated in
this country. We know that it is better
than mongrel stock and that is why we
pay more for it. If everybody kept pure
pred poultry In this country, the breeder
wonld get a higher price, the buyer
would have fewer losses and the conr
sumner would de better satisfied. We be-
lieve in good poultry and that means
pure bred ponltry.
A great many Of our best farmers have
found this out and the mopgrel is no
longer seen on their farms. 1t will re-
quire some time for this to become quite
general and the sooner the farmer dis
misses the idea that pure bred poultry
is only for the fancier the better it will
be for his bank account and the sooner
he is induced to get some of them and
place his poultry business on a paying
basis. Too few people understand the
difference between the highly improved
breeds of poultry and the common prod
ucts of the farm where no care is taken
of the stock. There is much difference
between the high bred class of poultry
and tue common barnyard mongrel as
there is between the Short thorn or Here
fod and the grass fed Texas steer.
Everybody should be interested in
the Improvement of the poultry of the
farm and no one should be more inter-
ested than the farmer who breeds and
sells them. The best is none too good
for the American producer and the
American consumer. Good stock ia
poultry means more satisfactory returns
than with mongrel stock