The Monroe journal., 1922-12-15
BIG FEATURES AT MONROE
POULTRY SHOW JAN. FIFTH
Premium List Will Be Ready TO Mail
Next Monday and Management
Want People to Take Hold

Prof. II. K. Lewis. one of the fore.
most poultry authorities in this coun.
try, says. "Dalrymen found years age
that il is an Improbable piece OF
business 70 keep low producing COWS
in the herd The orchardist has long
ago learned the fact that non-prOduc-
ing trees are burden and not an as
set in his orchard work. The better
farmers of today are located on fer
tile, h Oh priced land. simply because
barren soils are non-productive. The
poultrymen Of America have recently
come 10 a point where il is a general
ly understoon fact that the low pro-
9ucing hen is burden TO the rest of
the flock. A high percentage produc-
tion secured through the constant
el mination of the productive
birds, Is without question, the most
important problem in successful man
agement. Ii is practice which every
poultry keeper can put into immediate
USE"
There is only one answer to the
question, Does it pay to keep drones
and boarders!' For years the farm
and poultry journals have been telling
us to Gull out the non-producers and
breed only from the hens that we
know are good layers. The United
States Department of Agriculture and
the various State Experiment Sta
tons have repeated the same thing
times without number, and have food
ed US with reports and bulletins Of
ferlng convincing proof that selective
breeding does result in increased egg
production.
Years of record breeding and trap
nesting by progressive breeders have
made II possible for us to buy males
to head our flockS whose pedigrees
are a positive guarantee of proper
breeding for high egg production. or
we may buy either Matching eggs or
day old chicks from birds having trap
nest records. There would seem to be
nc excuse for the man who persits in
keeping mongrel flock of non-pro-
ducing scrubs; his only possible ex-
cuse would be ignorance of the well
established facts regarding poultry
breeding.
II is the desire of the management
of the annual show of the Union
County Poultry Association to offer
as many educational features as pos
sible, and with this end in view they
have secured from the North Carroll
ma Experiment Station, extensive dis
plays of poultry foods, remedies. in
cubators, brooders, and equipment,
and in order to give the people of
Union county chance to secure stan
lard bred stock at reasonable prices,
have arranged to hold an auction sale
1f breeding birds the last day of the
show. January 9th. This sale is bound
c. prove big success, as it already
has the endorsement of number of
reliable breeders, who have promised
% send birds to be sold. +
The management wishes the people
If Union county to feel that this is
heir show; it is staged primarily to
Encourage the breeding of more and
better poultry in the county and
should receive the enthusiastic sup
bort of our citizens. Attend the show,
ret acquainted with the exhibitors
md talk over the good points of their
respective varieties; be there for the
ecture by Allen g. Oliver, the State
Poultry Club Agent, learn all you can
about the up-to-date methods of feed
ng, rearing, and marketing poultry,
md then get right down to business