St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-11-16

favor OF the standard against the
mongrel egg.
Point No. 2 is, that it costs no
more to feed a standard bred chicken
than it does a mongrel one, if both
are fed properly.
Some of our farmers may think
that chicken meat is chicken meat
regardless of the breed OF chicken.
Not So There's quite a difference
in the meat of poultry, even among
the standard bred varieties, some
meat being finer grained and favored
than others, but it is a we'll known
fact that the meat of standard bred
poultry, when known by the pur-
chaser, brings more per pound be-
cause of it's finer flavor over the
criss-cross breeds. This is point
No 3.
Point No is that one can select
the standard bred poultry varieties
that will weigh two to three pounds
more each than the dung-hill chick.
en-, therefore will bring One-third
more on the market for eating pur-
pose and still cost no more to feed.
While speaking of the eggs l
portant point which l will sandwich
in here as point No. 5, that is, the
standard bred hen lays more eggs
per year than her dung-hill sister
because all over the world they are
being bred to lay-trap-nested for
that purpose; in other words, the
trap nest discloses the best layers
and exposes the "slackers." Gov
eminent reports show that the aver
age dung-hill hen, throughout the
United States, only lays 80 eggs per
year, while hundreds of thousands
of the standard hens lay 200 to 800
each per year. This is a vast diff
ference, and simply shows, even with
the high price of market eggs, the
dung-hill hen doesn't pay her keep
If fed properly.
Now, we come to point No. 6.
Some people will be nightly surpris
ed to learn that the standard breeder
cannot supply the demand for his
breeding stock, at prices ranging
from $3.50 to $4,000 per chicken,
according to their quality for breed
ing and show purposes. II you will
take any poultry journal in the
country, and write to any of the
standard advertisers, and they don't
tell you this is so. to man, l will
''go way back and sit down." OF
course, you have to advertise in the
journals to sell your stock. as only a
certain class of people who know the
value of pure bred poultry will buy
it. Many of you who read this
paper would look at $500 a long
time before you would pay it for
four pure bred hens and cock, or
pay $500 for a sitting of eggs, and
fanciers.
Point Z. What prettier sight to
see, in a farmers yard, than large
flock of even colored chickens of the
standard variety? It shows taste,
good judgment, and denotes thrift,
informs the passer-by that modern
well-tO-dO farmer lives there, and the
chances are that his mules, horses,
cattle and hogs are thoroughbreds
also.
If any farmer reading this paper
cannot see the advantage OF raising
standard bred poultry, then he must
be blind to his own good. All farm
ers can be chicken fanciers, and
raise birds for their parish fairs,
and they should take pride in so
doing, thereby making more money,
besides increasing their self-respect.
The writer has home in St. Tam
many parish and is preparing to raise
the best thoroughbred poultry that
the world affords, and in time many
of you will hear from him at your
annual fairs, exhibiting his stock and
winning prizes.
Any one desiring to communicate
with me regarding standard chick
ems q have none to sell myself now
can do so by addressing me in care
of the editor of The Farmer. enclOs-
ing cent stamp, and l will gladly
give my advice free.