Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24

TNXAMPLES of remarkable success in
k poultry raising on small scale, from
IL small beginnings. are in evidence
ali over Southern California. In the Inn
mediate neighborhood of Los Angeles
are scores of people who make busi-
ness of raising blooded stock for rev.
enue. and who are witnesses of the fact
that care, labor and Judgment combined
with few we'll bred fowls can be made
to lift tax or pay a mortgage IL
patiently adhered to.
A notable instance of success in breed
ing and raising blooded poultry on
small scale is that of Mrs. A. w. Sly OF
the Oakhurst poultry yards in Holly
wood. This lady, with her son, W. ).
Sly. undertook the business two years
ago, and in the language of the son
neither of them KNEW Plymouth
Rock from a Brahma." They fitted up
yards at their home, on a lot 10Oxl0O rect,
stocked it with blooded fowls OF tha
white Plymouth Rock breed, notable IN
which was albert Z, the picture OIL
which is here given, and some hne pullets.
They were short on stock, but long on
purpose at the outset. and studied the
best works on poultry raising, and APP
piled the teaching to their fowls. They
built runs for the birds on accepted
principles and watched them in all
stages of breeding and growth, and nave
been phenomenally successful as con-
sequence. They began with six pullets
and Albert E. and in the two years
since they have sold $500 worth OF eggs
and fowls, and have 1O5 birds oi s'is
rurest strain now on hand.
A visit to the yards found the mother
and son busy about the daily care OF
the fowls and enthusiastic on all that
relates to them. THE secret or success
IN this as in other things, said MRS.
sly. '1ies in being everlastingly at II.
/ spray the coops and all about WIN
dsstillate and dust every two weeks.
/ feed then a hot mash of shorts ana
bran with a little brown sugar and red
pepper every morning. l feed them also
wheat and barley and dry feed is in the
homer at all times. / keep each lot u
separate runs, Sx30 feet, partitloned OH
with wire and two feet of boards at the
Base. The fine climate here is the pe5t
help we have. | watch to see the plros
do not take on too much fat ana now
in the moulting season. l feed tnein
plenty of beef ground bone and plooo
meal. constantly supply them with all
the grass alfalfa and other green tnlngs
they will eat Some one of the family
As always here with them and we feel
constant supervision is necessary TO sue
cess
1--WE have a ready Hdrhel loi al W
can raise of eggs for Matching and piros
for breeding and obtain the very highest
prices for our stock
1--WE snail enter thirty-five birds in
the coming poultry show. chlet OF
which is the first prize cock Albert e.,
which took first prizes three times.
grading to "a, 81 and 9S out of pos
sible 100 We shall also compete for
the ten-pullet prize.
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successful poultry breeding unless you
call care, labor and cleanliness by that
name. We value Albert e. at $500 and
we readily obtain $50 for trio of our
stock. Our eggs sell from So per dozen
up and we can sell all we obtain. There
is money in a small poultry raising
plant. but like all other means of get
ting honest money it means work and
close attention
Writing of the magnificent White Ply
mouth Rock cock at the head of the Sly
yards, the editor of the Live Stock Tri-
bune says:
''I was out in Hollywood few days
ago for visit with the wife of the pres
fdent of the Los Angeles County Poultry
association, Mrs. Amelia w. Sly, the
breeder of White Rocks, who made such
q killing at the last Los Angeles county
poultry show, winning first. cock, with
AIDerl III ana ITSl Dulltl Will
young bird that has proven a breeder of
merit as well as a show bird. Mrs. Sly
calls her place the Oakhurst Poultry farm.
1t is located at Hollywood on the Cole
grove, line just at the end of the 10-cent
limit, half an hour from the city. The
birds are very comfortably housed and
yarded and every day have access to
plenty of green lawn or the garden patch
where they have played havoc with the
Swiss chard, but they like it and that
seems to be sufficient. Mrs. Sly will
have seven yards of breeders for the COM
ing seasons egg trade. but will not sell
any incubator lots until late in the sea-
son. The type of Rock Mrs. Sly is breed
ing is what the Rock breeders will all
have to come back to, large, rangy birds,
long bodies and close combs, deep breasts,
true Rock and less Wyandotte shape and
bright bay eyes: that was a feature of
her birds that 1 admired a great deal,
no pearl eyes in the bunch. / like White
Rocks, having bred a few hundred my
self and believe Mrs. Sly has as good
as they grow hereabouts''
N. S. Trowbridge gives his experience
on spring or fall Matching to the Petalu-
ma Poultry Journal, strongly preferring
the former. He writes:
Spring or Fall Chicks
"If the chicks are raised till they are
four months old before selling the cock
erels and the hatch and raising of the
chicks have been usually successful.
the entire cost of each chick to that time
will closely approximate 80 cents. For
the fall-hatched cockerels we may ex-
pect to receive an average of SO or 81 per
dozen and for the spring hatch we may
expect to receive it's cost only. This will
give a profit of 2S cents on each fall