Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-12-11
Points About Poultry
Why Poultry Raisers Should Keep
Standard Poultry.

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Why Poultry Raisers Should Keep
Standard Poultry.
By Dora M. Hoskin.
Ist.-In these days of keen compe-
order to gain success, to place on the
market the best product possible,
commanding the very best price, and
produced at the lowest possible cost.
Standard poultry brings better prices,
quicker sales. thus increasing profits
and saving valuable time. Many peo-
pie even in large cities read poultry
journals, and can tell at a glance the
difference between any old fowl. and
the standard article, which will be
their choice nine times out of ten.
People who have the money want
nothing but the best, and nothing but
the best bring the best prices, and the
standard all things considered, pro-
duce the best product. Growing COM
petition therefore, is the principal
| cause why farmers and market poul-
try raisers should keep standard poul-
try. 1t would also afford splendid
opportunity to produce several fine
fowls for which some one entering
| the poultry business would gladly pay
fancy price.
2nd-bccause it is a well demon
strated fact that standard poultry
commands the best price. Produce
| eggs that command the best price, as
bring $I.oo per setting, and a per-
son can sell hundreds of eggs for in
cubator purposes to be Matched and
raised for broilers and roasters, long
before old biddy wants to set.
3ra-Because the eggs from STAN
dard flock. contain richer egg food,
are more uniform in color, while as
fact they keep better, taste better
and are of greater fertility for
Matching purposes, thereby maturing
a greater number of fowls. Let me
say right here. they taste better if
they are strictly fresh. I have
customer who is sick, that has to
take the egg from the shell, and she
who she was confident would deliver
her strictly fresh eggs, as that is
part Of her medicine, and / for one
never expect to be guilty of selling
stale eggs.
4th-Becausc as flesh product,
they run more even in grade. both
as to size and color. The flesh be-
ing richer. sweeter and juicier and in
great demand. This would be a
great help where persons were pre-
pairing fowls for market.
sth-Because the same amount of
food expense will bring you greater
returns. Do you think your COM
mon stock pay for what they eat?
Well. then, standard fowls will not
require anything more than you give
care and attention, prove to you that
tb.x, far ahaaI nf Tho
fowl in every way.
6th-Bccause there is great
amount Of pleasure in caring for
| standard flock. therefore REQUIRES less
energy know this from personal
experience. In Iowa we had 6 white
Wyandottc hens. so we sent away
for a scored bird. He arrived on
February - on Valentine day, SO
we named him Valentine. Say. but
| he was a beauty and his score card
read o2 81 points. and that pen was
the pride of the whole family. and
we all thought it pleasure to care
standard poultry keepers far exceed
in numbers the record produced by
keepers of mongrels. The standard
asHaininy to an average in large
| flocks of over 200 eggs per year. while
the mongrcl record does not exceed
an average of I5o eggs per year. and
then in only exceptional cases.
Sth-Bccausc you will take more
pride in the keeping of a standard
flock and therefore give them better
care and housing, than you would a
| mongrcl flock. all of which counts
for success. You ask n great many
people what kind of chickens they
keep, and they will say. "Oh! All
| L. u H. r
many colors, and how a mixed lot
And then if you have any standard
bred stock to sell you can get fancy
prices for it.
oth-Becausc you should help to
pcrpctuate poultry. that will go down
| to your children as testimonial OF
your faithful husbandry. The latest
thing l have read about is powder
ed eggs. suppose they were fresh
eggs before they were powdered.
They arc powdcrcd and canned and
arc being used by the navy; they
make and use them on the boats the
same as a fresh egg.
Ioth-First. last and all the time.
because no form OF animal life is ever
capable of attaining to the highest
degree of usefulness and excellence
in life, in the purpose for which il
was created. and because you have
no right to permit carclessly and aim
lcssly your poultry to pro-
ducc and reproduce a form of life
below the standard of their possibil-
ity, which you arc undoubtedly doing
in the keeping OF standard flock.
Let me say right here, there is no
better time to start than right now
Buy few settings of eggs or a 100
of eggs from a breeder OF standard
bred poultry; securing the variety
that you think would suit you best,