The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-08-11


Turkeys .....................6,599.36
Geese. ......... communicable, 80
Ducks s.......................4 1907, 81
Total poultry. ......... 1850, 681 ,98'
Number of farms in U. s. 5,730,65
Number which kept fowls, 5,096,25'
888 per cent kept poultry.
On June lst, 1900, the total valu
of poultry in United States was $S5,
794,996. For the year 1899 valu
OF poultry raised was $136, ,S91, ,877
or $16.83 per farm. For 1899 tn
value of eggs produced was $144,
286, 1853. Total annual products o.
farms and ranges $281, ,17S,035
Poultry not on farms and ranges
$7, 100000. Eggs produced ST.,
100000. Total annual pro
ducts 1926, ,178,O35. Nearly three
hundred million dollars.
From the foregoing one may easily
see that it is a business of no small
imp ,rtance and one that will take
front rank in very few years.
SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF POULTRY
KEEPING.
Only small amount of capital il
necessary.
The investment yields prompt ano
reasonable returns.
They utilize much of the wastes
of the farm and house and turn
them into products OF value.
1t may be combined with other
occupations. Y ~
They enrich farm, garden and
orchard.
Now as to dunghills versus pure
bred stock. II we want to make
poultry pay We must get rid of the
mongrels, and in their place we
must put the pure-bred fowl. 1t
has been proved time and again that
mongrels cannot compete with pure
bred stock that has been for egg
production. The eggs are of a more
uniform size, larger, and thereby
command better price. The same
thing can be said of the chickens;
we can have them all one size and
one color, and by selecting the right
breed we can get size and get twice
as much for the same cost, for it
costs no more to raise a pure bred
fowl than it does mongrel; and we
all know what the mongrel is after
we get him, small, tough and stringy.
Poultry culture is not in its in
fancy, as we can see from the fol-
lowing prices paid tor stock: Mr..
U. R. Fishel, Hope, Indiana, breeder
of White Plymouth Rocks, received
5000 for one breeding pen, consist
ing Of one cock and four hens, $500
for the COCK, 800 each for the four
b ms. Mr.. Geo. H. Norlhrup, of
Rlceville, New York, breeder Of
Black Minorca, sold % birds for
$4, 900, receiving for one cock 81, 900.
Twelve eggs laid by prize-winning
Brown Leghorn hen brought $l44.
Plenty breeders get $40 a setting
Consisting of one dozen Of eggs)
for eggs. These people make money
out Of poultry.
Mr.. Fishel sold $4,000 worth OF
poultry and eggs last year. There
are plenty Of others doing the same
thing. Why can't we do the same
thingi Is their soil better, have
they more brains than we have? I
think not OF course, it takes pa
tienoe and close attention to details
and study Of our fowls, with love
for the work, and theye is something
in II; everything takes work that 10
worth while.
Send for q sample copy Of some
good poultry paper and look over it,
then sit down and subscribe for il.
Reliable Poultry Journal, Of Quincy,
Illinois, and the American Poultry
Journal, Of Chicago, Illinois, are
both good; there are numerous
others.
! hope that ! have impaired some
information in this article and I
will feel iamply repaid II / could
make some see the advantages to be
derived from breeding thoroughbred
poultry, is. Gwin.