Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-10-09
Mottled AncOnas-Why We Breed
Them and Our Reasons.

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In the first place, we desired to
stock our 50-acre farm, with the very
best strain of laying fowls, that could
be found, and after carefully
eating various breeds, we figured that
he Notified Ancona filled the bill com
IIetely, for they have size, are
tiful birds, have the yellow legs, or
yellow notified, which makes them
good market fowls, after they have
served their time as layers, and they
.av larger eggs in pullet year, b
the famous White Leghorn.
They are a very hardy, and vigorous
bird, laying very early if properly
grown, great foragers, and non-s1t-
tiers, and very easy to- tame.
Now with the qualities, we e no
reason why a modern egg farm should
not breed the Notified Ancona, and we
| safely predict that in a few years, they
viii: be the -most@commoE fowl bred in
this country, and the classified. d in
| ali poultry journals this season plain
Iy show, that they are coming to the
front faster than any other breed to-
day.
Ancona breeders are very progress
sive, have three speciality clubs, ana
a very bright magazine devoted to this
great breed, and we think no other
breed supports this amount of spec
ialty clubs, and a magazine to back
tnem up.
We can safely predict that the
speciality clubs alone, have. over 5000
members besides thousands OF new
breeders to raise Anconas this. season,
On the Pacific Coast, they have gone
Ancona mad, for almost every one in
Washington and California are taking
these birds up and they are very en-
thusiastic over them, and dealers in
the East this year, nave been taxed to
their utmost to supply the demand for
stock, eggs and baby chicks.
This is the best part of the business
for it is acknowledged that the besl
payers in poultry raising are the lay
ers, and poultry farms that do moi
have layers, will very soon make
complete failure in the poultry bust
ness, and will make that, very soon, II
their birds are not good winter lay
ers in the bargain.
This is where the modern 10th cen.
fury egg machine pays for herself il
a very short time, by producing The
SERS IuIOuSH DCCOl1OOl1 III OH
February when they bring in Cleve
land and other big cities so to g
cents per dozen for strictly fresh eggs
So many people come to our farm
as we are very close to Cleveland
end, after viewing our stock and gu
buildings, they generally say, well
very soon with so many people start
ing in the poultry business, the eg|
trade will surely be overdone. NoN
right mere we know there will neve
be an over-productioR and we predlc
for this season, that eggs will be high
er than ever owing to the late seasoI
: and we predict that if We live for 5
, years yet, poultry and eggs will a.
r ways be at a premium, for the reader
of this magazine must figure now, tina
S5 per cent of the population are try
\ ing to feed the rest, while years agt
: s. per cent was taking care of the 8
r per cent; in other words, condition
are Just the reversed, and the day wi
| never come, especially in the poultr
? business, when there will be an owe
4 production in fowls and eggs.
We could write volumes as to tn
merits of this great fowl, but do NJ
8 like to get too personal, or run dow
! any other breed Of fowls, for the cou1
, try today certainly has some gre;
strains in the larger breeds, but as v
II stated in the first part Of this art1cl
we think the Anconas are about II
9 best for layers. and are here to sta
,r forever.-J. o. Somers, Bedford, O.