The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-23

much of this talking at such time
is to assign each one some duty to-
perform and tell him you expect him
to do it-one to put up the prizes upon
the coops as fast as the awards are
made; another to make a record of
them in the record book; another to
make a copy for the papers; another
one or two to entertain visiting ex-
hibitors; another to see that the feed
ing is promptly and properly done at
the right time. With an executive
committee work so divided that each
member gets his share to do and rea-
Lies that he is not the whole thing.
but simply one Of the many cogA in
the great wheel that is endeavoring
&c grind out a successful show.-F. j..
Marshall, poultry editor of Southern
Ruralist of Atlanta and an expert
enced judge.
Thoroughbred Poultry.
II is strange that farmers and peo-
pie with only a small flock of poultry
do not see the advantage in having
thoroughbreds of flne strains. even Il
they have only half a dozen or a dozen.
IL ones asks them why they do not get
blooded chickens, they say: "Oh, do
not want them for shows: l only want
few for eggs and chickens to eat"
They do not seem to realize that
blooded chickens that have been bred
ur for years viii give them twice as
RAINY eggs, If not three times as many,
as a common scrub chicken or even
the crosses and mixtures of breeds.
1t is not uncommon to see in our
small farm yards or city yards a half a
lie - nr,S 3 Il
is motley crowd with no attractions
to the passerby. The owners wonder
why they get so few eggs. They for
the feed of a chicken a year. If a
hen lays less than eighty eggs a year
she does not pay for her keep. Very
few of the common stock of mixed
breeds or scrubs lay that many eggs
in year.
The average man or woman does not
stop to think that a common chicken
eats as much and is as hard to raise
as a fine breeded chicken, and when
It is raised 1t is not worth over 20 or
40 cents, while a blooded chicken Is
worth from 81 to quite a large sum.
Woman's College Poultry Farm sold
one chicken for $50 this year and that
IS no uncommon thing with breeders.
This farm has some White Orping-
tons, Black Orpingtons and White
Leghorns that cannot be bought for
$50. Everybody can raise the same
kind. The. college made $500 from
twelve White 0rpington hens in one
year. Individual breeders have done
far better thon that.
Let us grant. however. that one
never intends to sell chicken or an
egg. Why feed a dozen scrubs that
will lady few eggs a year and those
at a time of year when eggs are
plentiful and cheap. when half that
many thoroughbreds on less feed will
give more eggs all the year round IN
winter as we'll as in spring?
Take the large, beautiful bird. the
Black Orpingfon. that won the pre-
MUM in the Australian government
contest for three years in succession.
1t beat even the far famed Leghorn.
It is beautiful bird, large size.
smooth leg. graceful shape. healthy,
hearty. plenty feathers to keep it
warm in winter. There is some salts
faction in having bird like this. The
same can be said Of the White or Buzz
Orpington, too. They lay almost as
well. 1t is a matter of taste as to
color
Woman's college has recently I'm
ported some pens of beautiful White
and Black Orpington's from England.
the country that originated this bird
and that has succeeded so well in per-
fecting it. Say what yve will about our
achievements, but England has beat
us in breeding up poultry. They give
more attention to detail. Our English
birds won first over everything in the
large shows. However, America is