The Florida agriculturist., 1907-12-25
Make All You Can.

DOuIIIy llld1I vi 4NNO1 dONd3 W1AL1AAS W
the Farmers Call, says:
While you are making some money
at poultry raising, why not make all
you can?
If you are making nice money with
mixed breeds under ordinary condl-
tions, why not raise the full bloods
and be in a position to sell fowls and
eggs for breeding purposes? No de-
mand, do you say? Well, sir, there
is a demand. A nice flock Of full
bloods commands admiration They
will, to a great extent, advertise them
selves. Give them a little better treat
ment and get $50 to 200 eggs per year
instead of IS to 100 from the scrub
under very common conditions.
Yes, you can raise the scrub egg
record but while you are at it, expend
YOUR energies towards reaching the
highest possible profits. The full
bloOds are not only the most prohta-
bic in a direct way, but they make
your place or premises look better;
gives the owner a prestige that is
comfortable and really profitable IN
the long run.
To ask the owner Of a scrub flock
why he does not have some particular
kind, four times out Of tive he Will
say, the common chickens are more
healthy. 1 have known this kind OF
claim to be made right in the midst
of the scrubs dying off. Such claims
are prejudice, pure and simple. axe
the common kind Or the full bloods
and pen them up in unnatural, close
quarters, and the effect is the same
in either instance Turn them loose
on the farm and give them good
treatment, and both will respond.
While the first trap nests were
craze and the excitement soon abated,
there were enough logical poultry
fanciers who held on to the trap nests
to start and maintain an Improvement
in egg Weld This improvement is en-
tirely with pure Breeds The trap
nest serves a useful purpose. They
are to the poultry raisers what the
Babcock test is to the dairy man.
Another reason for full bloods is
the evenness Of market fowls and
eggs. A coop all the same color is
more attractive and will bring bet
ter price, and the same Of eggs. 10
start out with, I intended to write
about getting the top market price;
as a starter in the right direction, tull
blood poultry is the first requisite.
Any poultry raiser that has one or
more cases Of eggs in a week can
get from 20 to 40 per cent. more tor
them by looking up a private market,
some hotel, groceryman, eating house,
or the diners on trains. Put the eggs
up in cartoons, holding one dozen
each Put them up fresh and clean,
and stamp them with a rubber stamp
A trade can be worked up with any
city groceryman that caters to the
high class trade, or it can be done
direct with the concerns mentioned.
[ know whereof I speak about these
things [ know Of a number that are
ding it. I know of a single creamery
company that handles fifteen cars OF
eggs per month in pretty much the
same way. I know of parties who
are making a nice thing out of it, and
there is plenty of room left.
There is nothing that we eat that
goes on the market in such a hap
hazard, filthy condition as the poultry
and egg product. Not by any means
am | overdrawing Consider it for
yourself. Watch the groceryman or
average egg buyer fill case Of eggs
for market. No matter how old or
besmeared the case, just as long as
it will hold the eggs and nail together,
it will do No attention is paid to
dirt or feathers sticking to the shells.