Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-25
POINTS ON POULTRY GROWING,

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First, / would make up my mind
with what breed would become iden>
titled as life work then advertise.
You cannot enter the culture without
advertising and the increase in bust.
cess each year will be the effect the
present years advertisements will
have on the following years business
Use in your publicity and ad as
large. as you can afford to make it
for the year, for buyers have little
faith in spasmodic advertising. They
put confidence in the man whose adj
vertisement they see each month.
Then make no shipment that is not
good value for the sum you receive. A
satisfied patron is the best ADVERTISE
ment you can secure. One thousand
dollars worth of nice stock sold will
become a living advertisement for
you.
econdly:-Having determined the
breed or b~neds, would buy a pen as
good as I could possibly afford. To
buy culls only keeps one in the Gull
class. Having secured pen of breed
ors, then buy fancy stock and raise
under hens the chickens to stock your
plant. There is no chick better than !
one Matched and raised by the mother
hen, if you intend to cater for the /
thoroughbred and exhibition trade
The poulterers must use incubators
for their poultry and egg market. If
a specimen has proven a f1rst-class
breeder, keep hen until three years
old. No machine Matched or brooder
;hick at maturity will score withln
two points of that which a chick rails
ed on Natures plan will. But when
one may elect to follow the utility end
OF the game he must ues incubators.
SO you see, for you, my reader, it be-
comes q question: which branch you
will follow. l have seen the work
of both branches. / like the Nature
plan the best, where silky per cent. of
the chicks score 80 or better and the
other forty per cent. finds quick
market with those who tell us there is
more money in utility breeding than Ia
the thoroughbred trade
1t costs no more to raise nice
thing than one of mediocrity. The
difference in price between the two Is
on an average five dollars and seven
ty-fve cents. Now take your choice-
you must be a careful breeder and ad q
vertise to secure the one, or take your
stock to the butcher and take seventy
five cents for the other. When spec
linen fails to reach a first class posi-
ton, kill it and let the butcher have II.
There is a small margin even then
Poor stock running with first class
h1Ir fho faY
they secure for themselves by associa-
ton. 1t hurts nice specimens to be
yarded with poor as much as a lady
suffers to associate with the 'demi-
monde" Grade your yards. Let
those of the same merit and quality
he yarded by themselves. The Gull
looks far better so than running with
the main flock.
Study your business and leave no
stone unturned to secure all tina.
there is in it. What / have planned
for you is what I would do myself
What l advised for you is what has
proved best for me. You cannot af-
ford to be too sharp in trade-"It is
the liberal soul that is made fat"
Better keep this in mind when select
ing for a breeder, his fowlsl
Nice stock becomes nice agent for
you on the road. Have a neat direc-
ton card with your address upon it. I
have received many an order from
people seeing my stock in transit
Think hard, and success will follow
It follows no other course.-I. K.
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