Show IMPROVING LAYING QUALITIES OF FLOCK I 1 d 1 0 ag e Z xa t te AT i V r single comb white plymouth rock cock dy MRS C 0 lann LANE it you wish to improve your flock carefully so eo you will know the hens that are tho the i best layers put these hens into a house by themselves with a rooster for each 12 hens feed them a good variety of food make them exercise and use the eggs from this house for setting it this plan Is followed from year to year a great improvement will be mado made in the laying qualities of the sock flock if you are more especially raising poultry for market then select your breeding hens for those qualities and tho improvement will be as great along those chood lines A great deal Is heard these days day about purebred pure bred poultry being so BO much better than scrubs and they CM gainly aro a great deal moro more profitable than the usual mixed flock it costs no more to keep a flock of pure pura breeds than one of mongrels mon grels and a flock of beautiful highbred high bred fowls look much better than one of all sizes colors and conditions this Is an advant advantage ige tor for the pleasure of their beauty helps us to take more interest uncaring la in caring fo for them As regards their being more profit able tho the pure breeds bred for certain qualities are sure to have those qualities in greater degree degre th than ai raised without any regard to tb t these sa points thus fowls bred for genera generations tiona from the best layers will lay moro more eggs than others where this care bast has not been taken and the same is true regarding tho the size elze flesh and general table qualities in the poultry business every extra egg and pound of flesh counts so this alone makes a sufficient reason for good breeding thoro there will also be in the purebred pure bred brel flock a uniformity of size which makes a better looking crate ot of fowls to send bend to market and the eggs will be of the same size and coloring which adds greatly to their appearance 1 the farmer in making a start atari in purebred pure bred fowls it if he buys from large poultry farms farma should get what Is 10 called utility stock instead of the fancy birds which are raised for show purposes the tha utility stock Is just as well bred and perhaps Is better tor for practical purposed pur posea but there Is some little fault possibly in the color of 0 a feather which disqualifies them tor for show purposes it need not be expensive to make the change from a flock of mongrels mon nion grels to purebred pure bred stock by looking tor for the chance one may often got get a few old hens bons from a neighbor who has the desired breed it if this happens to bo be a neighborly neighbor he will not charge you much it if anything in ad yance over the market price when he disposes of his old hens bens to mako make room for his pullets while perhaps these old hens bens are not so profitable for him to keep as aa the younger ones still you can afford to keep them through the hatching season for the sake of getting a start then buy somewhere a good rooster of the same breed to keep with them and you have a good beginning another way to get a start with purebred pure bred stock to Is to get a setting of 0 egga and raise the little chicks for the foundation of your flock it if each year you keep koe pall all the purebred fowle by them themselves selve s during ill the 0 breeding season and set all their eggs selling oft off the mongrels mon grels as ae you raise miss the others to take their place it will not be long before the entire flock will be changed and the mongrels mon grels will have disappeared from your farm dont neglect to introduce new blood into the flock by a change of cocks cocivi careless inbreeding will ruin the best beat flock that over ever cackled line breeding if understood can be practiced to advantage but it is more trouble than the average farmer cares to take with poultry and necessitates several different breeding pens and confining the fowls rn in them |