The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-12-09
HOW TO MAKE POULTRY PAY.
Get Pure Bred Stock, the Breeders Ad-
wise the Beginner.

wise the Beginner.
Kansas City Star: The same at
tention given pure bred chickens.
which is bestowed on the average
flock of nondescript back yard fowls
will produce double the results. That
is the contention of the breeders of
| high class fowls at the nineteenth an.
nual Missouri State Poultry show,
which opened this morning i'm Conven-
| ton hail.
The city man who is eager to keep
| chickens should be especially careful
| in selecting one of the high bred
American or English Variety of chick
eus, F, l.. Sewell, who has visited
| every large poultry exhibition in
America and many in Europe in the
| last twenty years, said this morning.
"The breed should be selected for
the combined production of table poul-
try and eggs. If this were done in
stead of purchasing a flock of scrub
| chickens, double the results would be
obtained from the same amount of
care and attention.
composed of several nondescript
breeds. A pail of feed is thrown to
| the chickens. All will eat a similar
portion of the feed. But it has diff
ferent effect One bird will not get
enough food to produce it's kind Of
eggs and flesh, while bird of anoth-
er breed will overfeed and get too
fat to lay. The fat will press against
her egg laying apparatus.
Another important essential is the
selection of practical chickens. And
you should choose birds not affected
by extreme weather conditions. Some
fowls are insufficiently clothed for
winter, while others are feathered too
abundantly for hot weather. Some
chickens require especially expensive
quarters and high fences, while others
will do much better with low fences
and less expensive quarters.
Chickens are bred along the same
lines as cattle. Some fowls are bred
with a special object in producing a
large number of eggs, others for their
ability to take on flesh rapidly, and
still others for the combined egg and
flesh production. There is just as
much difference in eating a pure bred
chicken and one of the scrub variety
as there is in eating a tough piece
of third grade beef and the choicest
cut of sirloin or porterhouse steak
from a fancy bred steer.
THE man or woman who raises
pure bred chickens on small scale
not only is assured better eggs and
better meat than the ones who raise
the nondescripts, but in the breeding
times, when eggs are sold for hatch
ing purposes, woman who has pure
bred stock to offer can get dollars
| for her product where the woman with
the ordinary eggs gets cents. 1t is
the same on the market with fowls.
A well-feathered pure-bred fowl with
its plump, clear flesh will sell on
sight, where the scrubs are harder
to dispose of and naturally command
greatly inferior price.
One of the new features discovered
by the breeders in the last few years
is that all fowls stand climatic condi-
lions better when not confined in
tightly closed houses. This is follow
ing the idea of open air sleeping.
Many of the sanitariums for tuber.
culosis patients have adopted the open
air poultry houses. One end of the
house Is left open. This, it is con-
| tended, prevents the dampness from
collecting on the interior of the house
| and sudden drop in temperature
doesn't turn this dampness TO frost
and freeze the combs of the chickens.
Where the outdoor experiment has
been tried in the sanitarium poultry
houses, healthier flocks of chickens
have been raised and better eggs re-
suit A sick hen cannot produce per.
feet egg, and where eggs form the
principal diet of tuberculosis patients
it is necessary that pure stock be pro-
| duced.
Each year has brought a greater
demand for pure bred poultry and
, while many persons for years consid-
cred chickens as a side line around
the home and farms ii is becoming
generally known that the poultry in
dustry in this country ranks next to
corn. The government has taken an
active interest in poultry and through
shows like the one now being held
here persons are becoming better in
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