Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-06
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW Nj. SOULE

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as well as advertising your ami
mails.
| Pick out three or four of the
best hogs you have, feed them we'll
and show them next fall Take that
fine looking calf. Show people what
you have. In few years you will
have a surplus of livestock. Your
neighbors will be anxious to buy
| from you, if you win at the fairs.
A good deal of attention has now
! been concentrated on our poultry
interests, and there are a lot of
people who are afraid that we will
| overdo the business. AS Atlanta
| buys practically all her eggs from
Tennessee and western points it
does not seem that we could overdo
the chicken and egg business for
some time to come. Certainly we
can produce a quality that, will sat
isfy the demands Of the Atlanta
market, and we must remember that
there are 100000 people in Georgia
who must be fed on poultry prod
ucts raised within the state.
One Of the things that determines
y
man is the type of breeding stock
that we should let the old hen
scratch for herself. This is the
reason we lave not made more prog
ress in the poultry business. Prof.
w. II. Rice has offered some very
timely suggestions relative to the
matter Of growing out and develop.
ing full-sized and we'll matured
birds in a comparatively short time
We believe that as chickens are
raised on practically every farm in
Georgia this matter should be of
particular interest to all of our
readers.
The degree of success attained by
any poultryman is as much if not
more dependent upon his breeding
stock as any other one factor. Breed
ing stock is the poultry keeper
seed. No farmer would expect an
exceptional yield from poor seed,
and no poultryman can expect good
birds from poor breeding stock. 1t
is imperative every poultry keeper
to maintain in his breeding pens
birds of the highest order posi-
BILE. ! Get good stock and keep it
so, by proper breeding and manage
ment.
The most favorable time of the
year for Matching breeding and eX.
hibition stock is just past. Most ev.
cry poultry breeder has a good guam.
tity of growing stock Oh hand. The
earlier Matched chicks are now in
fast growing stage, and no doubt
make one long to see them smothered
in the gravy in the frying pan. Also
the prices now being offered for fry
erS and broilers is an attractive prop
ostion during these improperly
termed hard times" But wait! 1t
is a mistake for the poultry keeper
to sell his early Matched chicks for
the market, and depend on his later
Matched ones for breeding and exhi.
bition stock. Do not let attractive
market prices induce you to sell
your best breeding youngsters, for
they are worth more than market
fowls.
In almost every case the earlier
Matched chicks develop into the
best birds for breeding and for exhi-
bition. Why? The summers in
GEORGIA are long anu NOT, anu CHICKS
Matched early will have the most
favorable growing season of the
year in which to grow, and by the
time hot weather has arrived, will
be sufficiently grown to withstand
the hot weather. They will continue
to grow throughout the summer,
and the pullets will be laying in the
fall.
The early Matched birds have
many advantages that the later
Matched ones do not have. To some
extent almost everyone will give
their first Matched chicks more care
and attention than their later
Matched ones. Also the earlier
Matched chicks are not so subject
to the ravages of lice and mites,
which are more prevalent in the
hotter months. White diarrhea
the disease that kills more chicks
than all other diseases combined,
is also not so much in evidence
among early Matched chicks, largely
due to the unfavorable temperatures
for its spread.
In the offspring, size and shape
is largely dominated by the female,
and hence the necessity Of having
large, well-developed and mature pull
let's in the breeding pen. The earlier
Matched pullets will lay larger eggs