Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-29

careful to seek the breeder, large
or small, and there are many good
small ones who have honest
reputation for selling what they
advertise.
This brings to mind also that
many beginners with no exper-
fence in raising chicks or caring
for stock, blame the breeder from
whom they purchased for the fact
that their eggs did not hatch well
or their chicks did not grow. They
often fail to realize that they
themselves have been to blame in
not properly incubatiug or caring
for the chicks properly. Unless the
eggs are properly incubated either
by hen or machine-the hen can GO
wrong as well as the incubator
they will not produce livable
chicks. Again, the beginner is often
likely to experiment too much in
the care of the chicks. After
little experience the beginner will
not lay the blame on the breeders
shoulders unless there is
! just cause.
The Orpingtons still enjoy
popular boom all over the country.
Possibly no breed ever had so
many rich fanciers to take hold
of and boom them as the Orping-
tons. Printers ink and good all
around breed have put them where
they are today among the leaders
and ofttimes the heaviest class in
the show room.
Now for a better run poultry
show with the new rules in force.
1T is up to the poultry show man.
agement (as it always has BEEN.
Every show should be run primar-
lily on business principles with
honest judges, "no matter if they
are breeders, journal or paper
men," who have ability and there
will be very little complaint from
exhibitors who really know good
birds from poor ones. There will
always be in every show room the
hard loser, and no matter how the
show be conducted it is a problem
how to eliminate this class of ex-
hibitors and usually are beginners
who as they gain experience lose
this undesirable trait.
In picking out the cockerels that
are intended to be used as breed
ers in the future, above all select
those that have the best type OF
the breed. The day is coming, nay
it is here, when feathers (while de-
sirable) will be secondary. Shape
makes the breed, and the judges
of national reputation are award
ing that way. Those who do not
should.
The late-hatched chicks on well
regulated plants seem to be max
ing a line growth, while the earl.
matches were poor, not one-hal
, the number being Matched. TIL
| good poultry raiser, the one VIII
, has the practical experience, ha
! succeeded in pushing the young
; sters along in good shape, an
i, they will come into profit in tn
, late winter and early spring. 1t !
, different with the beginner, who
, as a rule, unlesIs he carefully look
after the late Matched chicks, wi
have lot of umdersiZed birds tina
will not mature until late in tn
. spring. 1t reqi Iires extra ettentio
3 and some exp erience to properl
rear late-hatcl led chicks.
The new re vised Standard @
Perfection is ! printed on much bet
ter paper. TT lie new cut OF tn
White Rock male, which cause
such a storm of comment from TIL
breeders, is q IN Improvement. Th
color plates show up better, du,
perhaps, to the better grade {
paper. In all il is now a prett
good book, With no real, glarin
j faults. Every breeder OF stanc
I ard bred TOW fls should have on
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