The Yale expositor., 1907-04-12

would come back s25,ee0, he would
drop his dignity. Birds have even sold
for nearly $4,000 apiece, $5se birds are
being sold every day.
To the farmers | would say this is
AN age Of improvement and when you
see a chance to improve you should
grasp it. Do little more hard think
ing and you will do less hard work,
the man who works his brains is the
man who is making the money. The
man who is earning 50 day is the
man who is working with his hands
alone, while the man who is earning
$40 day is using his brains as web
as his Drawn. II you put brains into
the poultry business as well as muscu-
lar action, you will reap a great har-
vest every day.
/ am glad the farmers are finding
out as never before the possibilities in
keeping thoroughbred poultry. They
are learning by practical experience
that pure bred poultry gives the most
satisfactory results. and that no line
of farming pays better than poultry
and egg production. The young man
on the farm to-day has no greater or
grander business proposition than the
poultry industry offers. He is privi-
legged to use his brains as much as our
merchant, professional man, or any
other person. and by using them he
can climb the rocky road faster to
prosperity. Subscribe for one or more
poultry journals, they will teach you
things you never knew before, they ex-
plain everything that you do not I'M
derstand, you cannot get along without
them. / have taken five poultry jour-
nails for the past four years. have al
ways found them interesting and full
OF good facts. | hope the day is not
far OF that when you ask a farmer
what kind OF stock he keeps he can say
thoroughbreds, and not mongrels.
Mongrels are mongrels, and you can
not make anything else out OF them.
Get rid OF them, do not have them
around, they eat more, lay less and
are unsightly.
What looks prettier on a farm than
a fine flock OF thoroughbred chickens?
your farm. you will take great pleas
| ure in showing him your flock of thor
oughbreds, You will interest him. he
will go away thinking about them and
will tell his friends all about them.
What a pleasure pure bred stock
brings! In starting | think it best TO
select one breed; make study OF
1 Al of hnf w re
profit and prosperity of the business
now depends upon your own efforts.
Ii is only a few years ago when you
sold your eggs for nine cents per dozen
and had to take all out in trade. To-
day you receive FROM 80 to 40 cents
per dozen in cash and from 10 to Is
cents per pound for live fowls. Now
where is there anything paying like
poultry on your farm? | believe farm
ers on so. rs and 100-acre farms can
make dollars out of poultry where they
make cents out of grain. Do not look
upon the poultry business as a foolish
hobby. 1t is worthy of your best eff
| forts: IL has grown from insignificant
proportions into one of the greatest in
aled by the coal mine, the gold mine,
the wheat. corn. oats, wool or any
other agricultural product in the world,
! it's value annually running into the
millions. Thanks TO incubators and
! breeders, they have been introduced
into the poultry world the last few
years. and without them it would be
I IN a q
shown above. am glad to see farm
! ers by the hundreds to-day buysrs IN
cubators and brooders. There is no
reason why anyone cannot run them
successfully: they have helped thou
sands to make money out of poultry;
they will help you.
This is undoubtedly an age OF adj
vertising. Our business men OF to-day
are all extensive advertisers; they are
noted far and wide: ii is beneficial to
them and a decided benefit to the pub
! lie as well as there are always people
looking for just what you might have
for sale. 1t is strictly a mail order
business. Advertise just what you
have and sell Just what you advertise.
Don't tell lies about your stock. The
American people will not be hnm-
plugged. An advertisement in good
poultry journal will sell your stock.
IL also pays to carry an ad In your
local paper; it costs but little and let's
the people know for miles around
about you and your stock. besides
local papers are sent all over the
United States. giving you good results
for very little money spent. The be-
ginner might be somewhat timid about
spending little money in advertising.
but I want TO say through constant
and liberal advertising a great poultry
business can be built UP.
Another very important help to the
poultry industry are the poultry shows;
they are as much needed TO poultry
culture as our schools are TO our coun-
try. they help the beginner and the
old fancier--arc educational from start