The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-03-14

horns just because he happened TO
get that kind. For few years he
bred for excellence in accordance
with the score" or rating followed
at the fairs, and while he won some
premiums, he did not find it profit
able commercially. There was too
little commercial demand for the top
knotch chickens and fancy eggs, so
he settled down to producing all he
could for the open market but keep
ing the breed pure. When he tried
to sell settings of eggs to his neigh
bors at 50. they would reject the Of
fer. Finally he drove all the mon
grel chickens out of the country by
| this method:-He would go to a
farmhouse and offer them setting of
White Leghorn eggs without any pay
If they would just rent him one of
their hens to hatch them and let him
have half of the chicks when hatch
ed Hens services We're as nothing
to them and they would accept. He
would return just after Matching time
to divide the brood, and they would
all admire the white chicks. There
was something distinctive about this
brood to identify them from all the
others, and he would offer to let
them keep the whole family of chicks
upon payment of the price of the
setting of eggs, So. The love of the
chicks invariably prevailed and they
bought them. Then they would
dislike the idea of letting them mix
with the others and would make a
separate coop for them and fix nice
places for them to dine and would
give them every attention that love
and interest could suggest. Soon
they loved White Leghorns and hated
the sight of the mongrels. They hat
ed the mongrels the more because
the chicks did not grow much but
just ate their feed and fingered
around and yelped for more. The
result would be the marketing and
killing of all the mongrels and buy
ing more White Leghorn eggs the
next spring and giving more and
more attention to the poultry. Larger
! and larger orders could be handled
as more people joined them, and dis
tant markets with demand for large
= shipments on short notice could be
supplied more certainly with fresh
eggs from Petaluma than from any
other place, and the dealer would
/ simply wire for what he wanted
knowing he would get it and get it
quick. From this cause their mar
! kets improved as the number of Leg
horn farms increased, and anybody
living in the Petaluma country and
raised Black Brahmas or White
Whyandots or any other breed could
not get in on these big orders and
good prices because their eggs did
not conform in size, color, and form,
and for the further reason that the
Leghorn people would not ship any
thins for the other fellows. They
simply had to raise Leghorns or be
left out of the procession.
The same principle applies to
every kind of stock, fruit, grain po-
tatoes or whatever a community is
producing for market. They must
become unit in production and ship
ment and then the world will buy
their product and the price will take
care of itself.
Mr. Hall said he had hunted in
vain to find out what there is that
the Blackfoot country is specializing
on, and in each line of investigation
he followed he was finally confronted
with the same word-"mongrels. -
He could not find anybody who could
sell him a carload Of any certain
breed of animals; nobody could fill
an order for large amount of
chickens or fruits or grains or grass
seed or anything whatever that the
world is demanding and consuming.
We publish booster literature boast
ing how we produce everything, yet
we have no quantity of it to class
ify and sell to fill an order II we had
the order. Ask the farmer IL he has
apples to sell and he boasts of hay
ing all kinds, and that is the reason
the dealer cannot place an order with
him. 49,
Mr.. Hall lauded the purpose of
the meeting, in organizing to do GER
tain things as unit. and brought
home to the meeting the lesson that
it is not so much combining to buy
and sell that will bring success as
the raising of one kind of seed or
breed, all raising the same standard