Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-07
Poultry a Source of Income
Something to Sell All the Time at Ready Cash Prices

when first hatched what color they
Will be when matured. Good feed,
proper care and attention, with good
Tree range, will have a lot to do. also
with the lustre and adult color thai
the plumage will be when matured.
DO Not Cross Standard Bred Fowl
l have written several articles on the
crossing of standard breeds to i'm
prove them. / am writing another
now and expect If | live long enough
TO write on this same topic again and
again.
l have recently received several let
ters asking me If such and such
breeds crossed together would mo-
produce fowls that were superior to
either parent. | a mtold that tn,
writer has just or )ssed two breeds to-
gether and that he has secured
splendid results. and that he has bet
ter chickens than any of his neigh
bors.
Now let me say to all who have
asked advice anl to those who imag-
Inc they have made hit in the result
OF their work on this line that they
will or have already met failure.
rake any of the straight bred fowls
that we have today-and | mean by
That term, the breeds that have some
or them for hundreds of years, been
Kept pure like the Asiatcs the Med
iterraneans, the Dorkings, the Ham
burgs the French fowls and some
others. These fowls have for many
years been bred skillfuly to produce
certain results. and they are doing Just
what they were built up 10 do, in the
countries where they originated years
ago. Now none of them have orig.
mated in America. so Americans and
some Englishnen. like William Cook
who originated the Orpingtons. have
by years of skillful labor and long
study, crossed the above breeds to-
gethcr and produced breeds suited to
our climate and to our needs. How
ever, only the few have succeeded,
while thousands have failed, and then
some who have forced some OF these
breeds on the fancy market by ad-
vertising and many tricks of the trade
have produced fowls that are far in
ferior to the pure-bred fowls that
were crossed together to produce
them. But many of the American
breeds are a most pronounced sue
cess.
II Costs Money.
Think now what it costs to perfect
these fowls. Some of them have the
blood of three or four Of the pure
bred fowls in their veins. Some Of
them have perhaps more than the
above number, and I expect. If we
could discover the truth of the Rhode
Island Red pedigree, all Of them have
claims as to their ancestry.
Now when you attempt to mingle
the blood Of two or three breeds.
thinking to produce a fowl superior
to its parents. you are sure to get
back to the point where the origina-
tors of both breeds started out to pro-
duce the breeds that you are trying
to improve. You know nothing what.
ever of the ancestry of either Of these
breeds, and the result will be that in
the second and third generation you
will have joblot Of fowls that are
very little IL any better than your
mothers used to breed, perhaps be-
fore you ever heard of an p-to- date
improved breed.
The number Of breeds and the
many varieties Of those breeds now in
existence are ample for any purpose,
and you will gain in the end by devel
oping those which now exist. AS I
have before stated in this paper, YOU
have an abundant supply to make
choice from, and it will be time idly
spent to undertake as novice to
create new breed.