Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-14
Money Made in Pure Bred Poultry


hen and pullet does and unless they
do their part they are disposed Of
right quick. The AK is very essential
implement in our yards, to say the
least of it.
In the next place the beginner
should use all possible care in getting
MS foundation stock; 95 per cent OF
all the failures are due to this fact
alone. There are two ways offered
the beginner: First. is to buy from
| a reliable source your eggs and to
hatch the same either with the incu-
bator or mother hen, and to rear the
Ichicks until they produce. There are
arguments in favor of each method,
but for most persons | would rather
advise to secure full-grown hens in
a healthy and laying condition and
TO match the eggs from them. In this
way you see just what you are get
tlng, also that your poultry yard is
in fuil blast and one does not have
TO wait weeks and even months for
the development of the chicks. Just
at this season most of The old breeders
are willing to sell at n sacrifice their
breeding pens to make room for their
young stock and this gives you ar op-
Portunity to secure some valuable
birds at very much reduced prices.
Remember that the cock bird in
your pens Is over half the breeding.
You must have good male to get
good results. Choose the breed that
appeals the most to your fancy. !
know OF one gentleman not far from
Tulsa who made his choice of Black
| IOrpingtons after he had tried several
other varieties and has given them
such loving care that he stands at the
front as Black Orpington breeder
in the state and | may say out of it,
too, for he has won at some of the
other state shows. | do not know
what he gave for the first three blacks
that he bought. but | do know that
he has been getting them better and
better ever since and | think you
would find II very hard to change him
to any other breed. In talking with
him | asked him for some reasons as
to why he preferred them to other
breeds and he did not hesitate to tell
me. Said ne: They are healthy and
mature quickly. They are grand. good
sitters and mothers; they are constant
layers, holding the world record in
three-year egg laying contest: they
are the largest of chickens. easily kept
enclosed, for they will not 90 over
three-foot fence: then they have
fine quality and quantity OF breast
meat. These facts make them very
valuable to me and ! certainly expect
to stay with my blacks" Now, this
gentleman has given both time. money
and study to them and he Is reaping
his reward and so will any one who
goes after the best in the breed he
most delights in.
Line BrOOding.
have had several letters in regard
to line breeding and as ! cannot well
go into details in personal letters to
all these inquirers ] make use of some
space here. Let me say that l have
proven to my own satisfaction, after
25 years experience, that line breeding
is the only proper way to breed. IL
is the ONLY sure way of breeding out
defects and having uniform color
and type in your birds. II you are
professional you may get good results
without line breeding but even pro-
fessionals get better results by fol-
lowing this practice. To the old
haphaZard way Of breeding and in
PRODUCING new blood each year by
purchasing a cockerel, the breeding
of which nothing is known, like pro-
duces like" is not applicable. In my
own experience l have purchased
male birds that were good to look at
and were also good breeders but their
offspring after mating them to my
own pullets which were not related
to them and perhaps bred on an en-
trely different plan, instead Of being
better for the most part as they
should have been, were not as rule
the equal Of either the sire or the
dam. Hence I adopted the line breed
ing plan and have followed it for
many moons. Briefly stated 1t is