The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-01
OUR POULTRY
DEP ARTMENT
Conducted by s. p. Porter
Mallet Greek. Ohio
SOME or THE OLD BREEDS
AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN !.
SOME OF THE NEW ONES

SOME Of II f1E NEW ONGS
Poultry fanciers are continually try
ing to originate new breeds OF chick
ems that are superior to those we al
ready have, and make great claims
for their production, while the tact
is we already have breed for every
purpose, and have had for many
wears. These new breed men are
something like an agent that once
called on an old neighbor Of the
writer, who after passing the time Of,
day, said: stes y Y lgs;ls
"Mr.. I am the COUNTY agent
for a new washing machine better
than any washing machine ever made, n
and the agent sang its praises sol
fast for nearly 20 minutes that the
farmer could not get word, in edge
ways. But finally his CAB run down,
and, all out Of breath, he asked the
farmer how he liked the machine.
WELL" said he II like the machine
much better than your soft soap talk,
but my old lady says her wash board
suits her all right yet. Good bye,
MIR. Agent, its time | was in the field
blowing" NJ II
It's not always wise to drop old,
tried and true breeds of poultry to
give new breed. trial, just because
the originator uses a lot of soft
soap in singing the praise of his new
breed in advertising the same. We
do not mean to say that many new
and excellent breeds have not been
brought out by expert poultry breed
ing, but they are the exception not
| the rule. w
Now, to 60 back IS years, the writer
at that time was breeding Langshans,
Black Javas and White Javas, and in
our opinion there has been no breed
brought out since that time that has
proved itself superior to these breeds
| in the line for which they were intend
ed. The Black Javas were Plymouth
Rock size, glossy black color, single
i-comb, low blocky build, skin yellow,
shanks black, with bottom of feet
yellow. The males were very attrac-
tive and noted for their high carriage
and long sickle-tail feathers, followed
up by exceeding long glossy tail COW
erts and saddle feathers, the latter
often reaching nearly to the ground
| While exhibiting coop of these birds
1 at fall fair, the male bird, which was
moulting, dropped sickle feather
that measured 22 IL inches. 1t was
fthe wonder of the visitors. So much
! tor their beauty, they were as near
general utility breed as we ever bred
| save possibly the Barred Rocks, ant
II they even beat them as winter layers
and IT was noticed that the Java
4 would be out digging In the snow tor
J possible blade Of nice green 9grass
while the Rocks were found humpes
lup on the perch, saying to themselves
J I"Aw, it's too cold to get out OF tn
house today" The Javas were ex
\ ceedingiy hardy, and good winter lay
ers of very large brown eggs, and q
a market fowl they were par excellent
, Our dressed Javas always brought
good premium over other breeds o.
! the Akron market, compact build an
8 color Of skin being the principal rea
J son. 5g< FIN
: The Langshans proved about tn
!, same as the Javas for winter layer
but failed as market birds in, color 9
skin, which was pink or flesh colo
\ the White Javas being the same a
:. the Blacks, save color OF plumage.
! Another breed that is certainly ol
! enough, that has never yet been bea'
en- BY any of the new breeds for egg
y is the Leghorn. While the Ancona
4 have proved their equal, they hay
not been found to be. their superio
not even as winter layers. Some te
years ago we cooped Is Buff Leghor
pullets and Is Ancona pullets in SCI
arate pens, for a winter trial on ee
production. The trial was from D.
! cember / to April !. The pullets wei
i the same age and given the same Ga,
= and feed so near as was possibl
= The average production Of eggs du
4 ing the four months was about IS p'
). cent, February and March being Il
highest of course. But when the fir
q Of April had arrived'it was found Il
! two pens had behaved about alik
: the Leghorn pen having only 81 egt
4 to their credit over the Ancona
4 4 which of course might be reversed
= . another trial, All this despite Il
= fact that some big Ancona breede
! have been singing for years the
claim Of ESQ egg average in the flo.
for a year. We have no sympatl
I. with such unreasonable claims--th'
N are entirely too fishey, tho It mig
II be possible--if the flock consisted
II only one hen. Go slow on new breet
is try them in. a small way first 3
It Questions
'p Here are two questions that are
|, near alike that one answer will
II them both: .ss2
" u Mrs. j r. Asks: "Do you think
2 pays to buy day-old chicks rather tn
AZ hatch from our own eggss" s!s
" G. C.sR.,writes: I'VE have been b,
I. ing day-old chicks for several yea
III and only, manage to raise, about y
~, Of them. Do you think this low p
n. centage is due to their being. hatch
he in the big hatcheries" y V FM0M M
Ans, We have never dabbled in
III / day-oldschick business, but have wa,
Ne ed with much interest fhe successi
ce failure Of those who have. One won
op who would not pay Us $l.00 for
he eggs; bought 100 day@oid chicks o
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