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Space does not permit giving them nil in detail, but now is
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month from the East to your locality. Write your eastern
friends, nnd also mention the excellent opportunities open to
business men and investors in the new towns springing up along the
Burlington's new main line through Central Wyoming.
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C, B. & Q. Watch Inspector
Q. L. GRIGGS, AGENT
Alliance
WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaha
Home Course
In Poultry
Keeping
II. What Breed ot
Chickens to Keep.
By MILO M. HASTINGS.
Formerly Poultryman at Kanins Experi
ment Station, Commercial Poultry Ex
pert of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Author
of "The Dollar Hen."
Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso
ciation. THE selection of the breed of
poultry Is always n momen
tous problem to tho beginner.
There are some poultry breed
ers and far too many farmers who
make this problem of breed selection a
conUnual one utid aro always chang
ing or sending away for a sitting of
eggs of some newly advertised breed
of poultry or swapping roosters with
tho neighbors. Such fickleness, of
course, prevents all progress.
For thoso who are breeding standard
bred poultry and whose main object In
keeping fowls Is to win tho prizes at
the shows and thereby sell stock to
farmers and other breeders the selec
tion of breed Is a most Important ques
tion. Could one always select the
breed which Is to be popular fivo or
ten yeurs hence making money In poul
try breeding would bo an easy prob
lem. Indeed, we could all get rich if
we knew tho future, but as It Is the
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majority of those who tie to novel and
untried propositions, whether It be In
fancy poultry or mining stock, get the
worst of the deal.
The following general statement mny
be laid down as a safe guide: Poultry
shows and the poultry fanciers arc
usually several years ahead of the
farmers In their breed fancies; hence
the man who selects the variety of
fowls which are steadily gaining
ground nmong the breeders will have
good chances of finding a market for
his stock among the farmers a few
years hence, but of course his chances
of selling stock to other fanciers will
not be as good as the man who takes
up with new breeds still enrller In the
game. The reader must not Interpret
me to mean that poultry breeds coine
and go as do fashions In ladles' hats.
They are rather inure like men's clothe,
in which there are always ome changes
of fashion, but also a few leading types
which hold their own prelty well from
year to year
Popularity of Creeds.
Poultry breeds are puppused to differ
in form and h.iblls. wUllt the varieties
of each breed differ in the uiloring of
the plumage. The following list will
give an Idea of 1 lie leading breeds of
chickens as judged hy the numbers ex
hibited at sliow' advertised in
leading poultry tbls listing
the games nntl nave been
omitted, as the this class
have liltle Intel ,,v practical
poultryuiaui; Plymuuiu Hocks. Wynn
dottes. Leghorns. Orpiugtous. Lung
shuns. Mlnorcns, Bruhmas, Cochins.
Hamburgs. Polish, Uoudans and In
dian U nines.
Plymouth Itocks rank. Barred. Wbito
and Buff, In the popularity of varieties.
These three types are shown in more
nearly even number than In tho case
of Wyandottes. where the Whites are
exhibited more numerously than the
other five or sis varieties put together
Among the Leghorns, the Single Comb
White Is now easily the leading va
riety, though a few years ago Brown
Leghorns were the more popular".
That the representation of breeds on
'farms is quite different from that of
the show room will be readily seen
from the following percentage of
breeds 'on farms, which the writer tab
ulated while poultryman at the Kan
ens experimental station:
Barred Plymouth Rocks, 45 per
:ent: Brown Leghorns. 12 per cent;
Black Lnngshans. 10 per cent; White
Leghorns, to per cent; Light Brahmns.
A per cent: White Plymouth Itocks, ii
per rent; Buff Plymouth Itocks, 2 per
tent: White Wyandottes, 2 per cent;
ether varieties and mongrels, 14 per
cent. For those who are to consider
the keeping of poultry for market the
following rnnkiug of breeds by poultry
packers will not be without Interest:
Plymouth Hocks. Wyandottes, Indian
Games. Lnngshans. Leghorns. Brati
mas. mongrels.
Tho ranking of tho breeds of poul
try for egg production Is quite differ
ent from the popularity In the show
room or nmong the market men who
couslder the carcass of the fowl. As
Is gonerally known. Leghorns nre the
best layers, and the Single Comb White
I.oghorn. clilally, because they are more
readily bred truo to type. Is the most
popular variety. The main bone of
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coutent'on In tho cliolco of a breed for
commercial poultry keeping seems to
bo bctwecu White Leghorns kept for
egg production nnd Plymouth Itocks,
White Wyandottes, Hhodo Island Reds
or other general purpose fowls. At tho
present time the latter typo of fowls
Is more popular upon tho general
farm. The Leghorns are gaining In
popularity, however, nnd will probably
continue to do so as the uso of lucu
bntors nnd public hatcheries Increase.
Tho Leghorn tins a much smaller
enrenss, and hence there Is not so much
Income from tho sale of young cock
erels nnd old hens, As n matter of
fact, the smaller size of tho Leghorn
fowl Is not as much of an argument
against the breed ns Is commonly sup
posed, for Leghorns eat less food, oc
cupy less house room nnd when not
confined are better hustlers and secure
n larger portion of their living off the
range thnn do the larger breeds of
chickens. A more Important objection
to Leghorns is that artificial Incubators
and brooders aro necessary to keep up
tho flock. Again, Leghorns aro wild,
nervous nnd thinly feathered, nnd if
111 treated nnd poorly housed the egg
yield, especially In winter, will bo less
thnu thnt of the general purpose fowl.
Leghorns wheu kept in large numbers
by those who glvo careful attention to
poultry keeping can be made very
profitable, but for tho reasons Just giv
en the farmer or the beginner at poul
try keeping should bo slow In taking
up this breed.
Strain or Family Important.
In tho mind of thoso who arc liot
experienced In animal breeding too
much stress Is laid upon the breed and
not sufficient consideration given to
Individuality of particular families or
strains of the breed. Tho reason for
this will become clear when It Is ex
plained that the majority of our com
mon breeds of poultry have originated
In tho Inst forty years and have been
selected chiefly for fenthcrs rather
than for meat, egg yield or gencrnl
vigor. This does not mean that puro
bred chickens will be any less prac
tical as meat and egg producers than
mixed or scrub chickens. On the oth
er hand, standard bred poultry are bet
ter from any viewpoint than scrub
chickens, but one strain of a breed
may be vigorous growers and excel
lent layers, while another floiU of the
Enme breed whose imcestors li.ve been
cnrelessly selected with regard to prac
tical points may be poor In these qual
ities. Egg laying tests of n few lots from
different breeds of fowls ore of little
value in determining the worth of
breeds, for It is qulto possible that a
good strain of tho poor breed may ex
cel a poor lot of the best breed nnd
the results of such tests be exactly op
posite to the real truth. For this rea
son I consider the majority of the
breed tests ns published by poultry
papers and government experiment
stations ns of little value.
In Austrnlin, however, the govern
ment has conducted egg laying tests
on such n largo scnle and with peus
entered from hundreds of different
breeders thnt tho average of their re
sults Is worthy of more consideration
Tho ranking of the three leading
breeds In the Australian tests Is Single
Comb White Leghorns, Black Orplug
tons, Silver Wyandottes. It should be
stnted. however, that Barred Plymouth
Rocks, White Wyandottes nnd Rhode
Island Reds, the favorite general pur
pose American breeds, nre practically
unknown in Australia.
Principles of Breeding Simple.
The nrt of breeding fancy poultry Is
less complicated than many old breed
ers would have us to believe. Va
rious so called systems of breeding
have been advertised and much talk
ed about, but any breeder having a
thorough knowledge of the deslrah'"
points In the breed nnd who breeds
from the best birds has about all the
system necessary.
"Inbrepding" menns the inntiug of
individuals that nre related, but be
cause of the analogy taken from hu
man relationship a deep seated popu
lar prejudice exists against this cus
tom. Inbreeding N the shortest and
quickest vny of Intensifying any
characteristic. The reason for this Is
because outside qualities are nol
brought in to Interfere with fnmll
traits: hence the Inbreeding of fowls
or other animals that have a tendencj
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townrd some particular weakness 0:
disease results In the production of
still weaker offspring, so thnt the
strain will soon die out. On the other
hand, the breeding of related stock
hat Is particularly vigorous will re
sult in the Increase of health and vi
tality and the Intensification bf whai
ver good points it may possess. In
practice It Is well to breed related
fowls for Hiree or four generation
:iii(l then bring In some fresh blood
Lut the miscellaneous lutrodurtlon ot
rew blood as practiced by farmer
wlio got new roostors every year prac
tically prevents all Improvement of
'he liuclc.
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