New State Poultryman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, June 1, 1908 Page: 1 of 12
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New State Poultryman.
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VOL. 2.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA. JUNE. 1908.
NO. 11.
THE PRICE OF THOROUGHBRED
POULTRY.
Isn’t it surprising what a shock it
gives some people when they get
prices on fancy poultry or eggs. We
have two neighbors who, while not
fanciers, breed a good grade of stand-
ard poultry, having many birds that
would not look bad in the show room.
Recently a well to do farmer ,who by
the way is a brother of a prominent
business man of Oklahoma City, went
to one of these neighbors to purchase
eggs for hatching and was asked the
enormous sum of 50c. a setting. He
was so shocked at the idea of being
beat in that way that he nearly had
“heart failure.” What would have
happened if our friend had asked a
fancy price? He would no doubt have
thought that something fearful. We
are often asked prices on the very
best chickens we have. They want
nothing but the best. Our reply is
that we do not care to sell the best
birds, but will sell good birds, better
than we began with for $2.00 up, and
it always finishes that class of in-
quirers. A number of persons no
doubt think they have been getting
bargains in Roselawn Farm eggs this
season. We carefully mate and pen
all our breeders and the /urplus
hens have'free range, without males,
and the eggs are sold at the local
stores. The merchants report a heavy
demand for our eggs, one man com-
ing from Oklahoma City and giving us
an order for- all we brought to the
store that week, remarking to the
merchant: “If they sell ’em to you at
market price I ain’t going to pay ’em
$2.00 a setting. At last reports he had
not left another order.
We recently had a caller who notic-
ed a bunch of chicks and asked their
age, when told that they were five
weeks old he said, “My, they are big.”
I have eight week old chicks not so
large as those. We asked him what
breed he kept and he replied, Ply-
mouth Rocks. We asked. White or
Barred. O no, he said, just Plymouth
Rocks. He then volunteered the in-
formation that they were a kind of
Speckled Dominicker chicken. Now,
while this is funny, isn’t t hard to
beat as a description of the average
flock one sees throughout the coun-
try? When the standard is revised
why wouldn’t it be a good idea to
have a description of the just Ply-
mouth Rock, just Leghorn, etc.? If
the Barred Rock men who are having
so much trouble to write a satisfac-
tory description of Barred Rock plu-
mage could obtain the service of an
artist who would call this breed just
Plymouth Rocks, it seems to me the
great obstacle to fair prices for stan-
dard bred poultry would not be as
we have been thinking just chickens
but just Plymouth Rocks. The only
remedy so far as we can suggest is,
use every endeavor to increase the at-
tendance to the poultry shows, have
your friends subscribe for a good
poultry paper and all other means to
educate the people till they can tell
the difference between Barred Rocks
and Speckled Dominickers.
W. H. HOBSON.
BUYING POULTRY.
Anything that is worth doing at all
is worth doing well and if at first we
don’t succeed, try, try again. ’Tis
true that experienced teachers see
many sad lessons. In no business are
these sayings more true than the
poultry business. It has been too long
a prevailing notion that a person can
raise fine chickens wthout experence
and by the time that we try several
years we have had it seems enough
experience to teach any and all.
Still we can learn every year. When
we first started in to the poultry bus-
iness we sent north, as a good many
do, and bought fifty eggs. Twenty-five
of one breed and twenty-five of an-
other. We waited so faithfully for
three long weeks to see the little
chicks appear, but when they hatched
they were all sorts and colors.
I believe we could have gone to any
grocery store, bought eggs and got
better results. This breeder claimed
to have 21 varieties of chickens and
I think he told the truth and sent us
a sample of each variety. That cured
us of sending to a breeder who keeps
so many varieties. I prefer sending
to someone who makes a specialty of
one breed. If we take one breed and
.study that well we can improve our
flock year after year.
We breed from our best each year.
Often new beginners become discour-
aged and think the poultry business
is a fake, but if you will manage
right you will find money in poultry.
All it takes is time, good judgment
and lots of work.
MRS. J. T. JOHNSON,
Denton, Texas.
THE RHODE ISLAND RED.
The Rhode Island Red as they are
called, originated in Rhode Island
about forty years ago and have been
bred for utility until about eight or
ten years ago when they commenced
clamoring to get admitted to the
Standard and never succeeded until
about four years ago last fall. Since
that time they have come steadily to
the front and now they stand second
to none. When you used to pick up
a poultry journal you would see the
leading breed was the Barred Ply-
mouth Rock and the White Wyan-
dotte. Today you will find in these
same journals that the Reds stand
alone. Two or three years ago you
did not see them advertised, now you
see more than any other breed, and
this is what makes me say they
stand alone. I have bred them for the
last three years and in this time I
have tried several breeds but I think
they are the best I have ever tried as
they stand confinement well. I keep
thirty hens this year and only have
one-third of an acre of ground and
get as many or more eggs as a neigh-
bor with a great many more birds and
four times the ground. Last winter
when the cold winter days were here
they never stopped laying in the least.
With their good coat of down and in
good warm houses they will lay in
the winter as well as in the summer.
Some way they do not seem to suffer
with cold as most other breeds. As
to the chicks they are the easiest to
raise of any breed I have yet tried.
I hatched 65 in January and raised
60 of them to date and you know that
is a good percent in the winter time.
I could write all day telling the good
qualities of the Reds, but will close
this time and see if I will get my ar-
ticle printed. If so my next article
will be on feeding and caring for the
Reds. W. T. BOWERS.
Honey Grove, Texas.
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Griffin, C. W. New State Poultryman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, June 1, 1908, newspaper, June 1, 1908; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936719/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.