The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-15

that s.ringer says in his advertise
n.ents, he may, or he may not, get a
ussS - - D.oou .iia. M4li laae a
long time Vi careful breeding to weed
GU. OF THIS flock.
Now these assertions may look to
the reader like a Ling at the poultry
fancier in general, but not so; tho
we are perfectly wiling it shall hit
any pouiCry lanclers who ll.lsrepre-
sents his stock thru the advertising
Columns OF poultry publication, or
any other for that matter, as well as
thru a llamlng circular. Or course,
us a .weil-known fact that all lines
of business have their tricky, unre-
ifaDle niuividuals, who have no con-
science, but we doubt if there is a
business today that gives the would
be LlicKsLer better chance to ply
his deceitful methods than the poul-
try fancy, simply. because we must
rely on the other fellow to give us
what he aaverlses to.
We don't wish to be understood as
saying there is greater per ceri5 of
frauds in the poultry fancy than
most other lines of business, for we
do not believe there is. Moreover,
we know there are whole lot of fine
fellows in the poultry fancy; but, at
the same time we know of a~few that
are not dead yet (no, we didn't say
they ought to be), who lay awake
nights to figure out how they can
beat or cheat their customers and not
get caught at it. 1t is this class of
human-oh, excuse that word, we
should have said i,,hamam beings,
that we wish to warn the reader
against. Now if you want to know
what the above described animal looks
like, we will try to describe him.
First, he looks like man that ad-
vertises high-classed eggs for hatch
ing from three different pens, one
pen SO, per setting, One pen SIS per
setting and one pen, extra special pqS-
cate pen, SIS per setting; adding that
orders must come at once for the SIS
eggs as the supply is limited. While
the fact is, the orders are all filled
out Of the same basket, (ho, hum) !,
and he tells a beginner that black
feathers don't hurt a Plymouth
Rock, and he's just as good if there
are a few feathers on his toes. Third
he looks like man, big advertiser,
who, because he knew his customers
were not posted, sent him pen Of
five exhibition birds to show at his
local show, which were plainly. dis
qualified, and charged him $125, for
the five birds-in Medina; well, we
didn't say it was, did we?
Now if ye Editor doesn't call us
down on foolish stories, we will relate
one right here, that shows how some
Of the high-ups beat fellow, The
joke was on the writer, so no one
need to cry.
"Years ago, when Silver Laced
Wyandottes were having their boom,
I found myself in possession Of eight
very fine females but no male to
mate them to; and while looking over
one of the poultry papers saw the
adv. of man who had been a
Plymouth Rock breeder of good re-
pute, who advertised that he had ad-
ded Silver Laced Wyandottes to his
yards by the purchase of the first
prize pen at the great st. Louis show
that winter, and that he would sell
few eggs from that pen at So per l5s
Well, the price was not so very bad,
and l reasoned that if, out of that
setting of eggs, / got even one male
bird that was sway up in G." which
would likely be the case, it would be
good way to get blood from that
famous yard. So decided to run
my females over till another year
without mating ard wait for blood
from this pen. Therefore ! sent for
the $6 eggs as described. Well, in
due time they arrived, nicely packed,
but 10, when ] unpacked them there