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Inquiries from this Department should be addressed to D. Tancred, Kent, Wn.
Advice to a Beginner
I wish I knew the uiiswer myself to
lots of the questions asked the editor
of this department. A very frequent
one is, "How shall T start in to raise
poultry?" sometimes varied thus,
"How can 1 make it pay?" This is
too large an order for me to fill, but
I like to help when T cau and certain
bits ol' seasonable advice occur to me
from time to time.
Whoso contemplates breaking into
the poultry raising business next sea
son had better begin now. The winter
is a mighty poor time to build chicken
houses and almost as bad a time to
buy breeding stock. It's like this:
There never is enough good breeding
stock to go around and the best time
to buy it is early summer, at which
time most breeders are overcrowded
like the mischief, having the old flock
and a new flock as well on their hands,
and will generally make a very reason
able rate on some first class birds in
order to make room. And that is
when the forehanded poultry raiser
buys and frequently he secures them
at a still earlier date. T have known
of wise old heads engaging breeding
birds almost a full year beforehand.
The same rule applies to hatching
eggs and day old chicks. If a hen
would Imt lay her full year's quota of
eggs during the single mouth of March,
how happy we would be, all of us.
But she can't do it and the man who
orders earliest get his eggs on a date
of his own choosing; while another
follow, whose money is just as good,
has to take what is left or else patron
ize a breeder of lesser reputation and
presumably inferior stock. Every
breeder of established reputation can
sell his March eggs and April chicks
twice over and it is the early buyer
|IPOULTRY F^OODjTjl
a| The Real Test of Poultry Foods is their ability to year j
I after year produce a profit for the poultry man. Merely j
I giving a food a name does not follow that it is a good 3
I food. It takes experience and honest intention to manu- j
f facture Poultry Foods that are profitable to the user.
& lU^ Poultry Foods are always uniform and dependable.
I When ordering from your dealers, ask for JJH£§. It is your
i insurance against getting inferior goods. p
m The CHAS. H. LILLY CO. Our Poultry Book mailed M
" ; Seattle and Portland free on request
The Ft-anclvl
that gets them.
" Human nature," said the elder
Weller to his son, "is a rum thing
Samivel''; and there is a lot of human
nature in poultry raisers. Many will
go contrary to well meant advice out
of sheer cussedness; others because
they are suspicious of all mankind
and believe that an ulterior motive
underlies the simplest action; others,
again, are merely too blamed smart
to believe anything told them. These
are the people observed rushing franti
cally about in mid-spring in a mad
search for breeding stock, eggs or
chicks. And they get them. Oh yes!
They get them. There is always some
thing, of some kind, to be had some
where. Yess, Rollo, the abandoned
chicken ranch you passed yesterday
belonged to one of these gentlemen.
A question asked often by beginners
is how best to start, whether with
stock birds, eggs or chicks. It is not
possible to answer this question in
telligently without considerable know-
ledge of the questioner's circum-
stances. There is much to be said in
buying breeding stock.. It is often
the most economical method and,
better still, it removes many elements
of doubt on the buyer's part. The
adult fowls show for themselves if
they are handsome, healthy and vigor
ous and typical specimens of their
breed. To start with day old chicks
saves time and equipment as well as
the risk of serious losses in hatching,
and this is perhaps the best way to
begin in the case of the inexperienced
poultry raiser who desires to start on
a decently large scale. If the begin
ner feels an interest in all branches of
the business and desires a thorough
knowledge of it he will be best suited
WE WANT
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WE BUY
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POULTRY PORK AND VEAL
WE SOLICIT YOUR SHIPMENTS
KLOCK PRODUCE COMPANY
SEATTLE, WASH.
GREAT BARGAINS IN BREEDING STOCK.
THE TRAP NESTED WHITE LEGHORNS
Send for Early Summer Bargain List^__P^T J ANCRED I _KENT 2 _WASH :^
aredSllvI ing LIMESTONE CHICKEN GRITS?
There is nothing else as good. Anyone who has used Daily's GRITS knows they are
certain in helping the chickens keep well and healthy. More eggs and sirong shells.
Have yon tried MILKOL disinfectant? Ask for booklet.
S. W. R. DSLLY
69 Columbia Street, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.
by buying eggs for hatching. Then,
too, if fairly successful, he makes the
hatcher's profit himself. It is gen
erally found cheaper to buy any cer
tain quantity of eggs than it is to buy
sufficient breeding birds of good
quality to lay the same quantity of
eggs in a few weeks time. For ex
ample: The new man wants to get
out all his chicks in two hatches three
weeks apart. This gives him not over
four weeks time to collect his eggs
and, at that, some of the eggs will be
two weeks old. Twenty eggs per hen
would be remarkably good production
and fifty hens at least will be required
to produce 1000 eggs. At $10 per
hundred these thousand eggs would
cost him but 8100 and by purchasing
from a big breeding plant he could
secure eggs much fresher than his
own, possibly none of them more than
two or three days old when shipped.
All this for $100, and he ought to get
good stuff at that price. Now to pro
duce this lot of eggs himself he would
need some 50 hens and four cockerels
of an equal quality and $5.00 apiece
(or $270 altogether) would not be a
high price for such fowls. Of course
he can get a good gi'ade of breeding
hens at half that price but then too
he can get his eggs correspondingly
cheap. No I have not overlooked the
important fact that he still has the
10
breeders aud that they are of value to
him as layers afterward; but we are
merely discusniDtf the question of
starting here.
mUTUI'I CLASSIFIED
Column. Two cents per word each issue.
INDIAN Runner eggs will soon be the popular
breakfast food. Help us supply the demand.
We can start you with eggs or stock. Circular
free. E. G. Vashus. Keut, Wash. 2-6tp
rMRCULAR FREE, of the best Buff and White
*-' Leghorns, Buff, White and Partridge Wyan
dottes, Black Minorca* and Barred Rocks
Fred A. Johnson, 51335 th tit , Tacoma, Wash.
t EARNED'S strain trap nested White Leg
-L horns. Send for circular (its free) and
learn more about our birds— it is worth while.
A. E. Learned, Dcs Moines, Wash.
SETTING eggs from unsurpassed laying strain.
Thorough bred White Leghorns, Buff Orping
tons and Barred Rocks. Carnation Poultry
Ranch, C. W. Rausch, Prop., Kent, Wash.
Johnson's GRIT
jonnson s MACHINE
Do the work at home. Costs little and saves
the pouliryinau a)I costs of buying grit,
ground bone. etc. Why buy such when you
can make your own on a ''Johnson." Write
me for particulars, prices, etc
FRED A. JOHNSON
513 So 35th St. Tacoma, Wash.
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