New State Poultryman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1908 Page: 4 of 20
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NEW STATE POULTRYMAN
January, 1908.
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
The year 1908
is upon us and
with it comes the
duties and pleas-
ures of a new
year. It is such
a common thing
to make new res-
olutions—and to
break them.
We question
Mrs. W. o. Opfer, whether one is
better for merely “resoluting” unless
the mind and soul make some effort
to carry the resolutions into prac-
tice. Were we to make promises to
other people as we do to our inmost
selves and then proceed to break
them as we do these pledges, we
should soon lose our reputation for
veracity.
Yet it is only by thinking of some
way to mend our habits that we are in
any way improved, and the beginning
of a new year is certainly an encour-
aging time to make a fresh start in
life and its labors.
Most of our readers are in the poul-
try business in some form and are
wondering what the year has in store
for this great industry. "We can only
judge of the future by the past."
Some have failed while others ac-
hieved success, and yet both had
practically the same start. \\ herein
lay the difference? Was it not in at-
tention to the details? The "little
things” tell in the chicken business
every time.
Many of us live in the region of
frost and ice during the winter sea-
son, and how we hate to leave a com-
fortable fire and go out and care for
our flocks during the cold days! But
success depends upon it. Bad weather
makes it doubly necessary to care for
the fowls.
Shall we not resolve to give our
birds the best care possible, even at
a little personal inconvenience? It
will pay in cold cash in the end.
If chickens could speak English, no
doubt they would occasioally give us
some “sass” that we wouldn’t like to
hear, and perhaps one of the subjects
they would like to discuss with us
would be the “feed question.”
Many, many poultry keepers whose
fowls are confined to small yards do
not feed the variety that the creat-
ure’s system demands and this is
one great reason why some people’s
hens "do not pay.’
Chickens on “free range’ pick up all
sorts of things to eat. It is quite sur-
prising what strange things they will
eat!
Fowls are at the mercy of their
owners. How w'ould it do to lesolvt
to be a little more thoughtful of our
feathered friends than we have ever
been before?
I’m not a “betting character" or 1
should feel willing to make a wager
that hundreds of people in the United
States resolved January 1, 1907, to
keep a record of the income and out-
lay of their poultry. Some have kept
the resolutions and now know some-
thing about “where they are at.”
If the ledger shows a cash balance,
well and good; if a deficit, something
was wrong. And it is “up to the own-
er to discover what it was. It would
hardly do to say that “poultry doesn’t
pay” because so many have proved
the truth of the converse.
Wrong methods must be the trou-
ble and study and experience alone
will be of- any service in the matter.
January 1, 1908, is a good tinme to
resolve to keep a poultry record.
Often the fowls that the hogs kill
during a year would pay /or the
fence, and save quantities of the
housewife’s temper. For how a
woman does hate to have her chick-
ens eaten in that fashion!
Perchance this paper may fall in
the way of some poultry raiser who
does not take a poultry paper. If
such should be the case, a resolution
to become a subscriber would be in
order.
The best way to keep a resolution
is to “keep it.” Don’t procrastinate
about carrying it out. For anyone to
try to raise poultry in this age with-
out the aid of the poultry press is
HELEN, FIRST PULLET AT ST. LOUIS, MO.
This Pullet is the property of Mrs. H. C. Wilhite of Greenfield. 111.,
and has the record of winning the highest honors at the St. Louis show,
November 20-30, 1907. The score this pullet received was 96 points, the
highest score in the show, one hundred birds being on exhibition. This
is one of the famous Blue Ribbon strain and with a 96 point score, she
won 1st with ease. 1
Helen is a wonderful shape, cut only 1-2 on comb, 1-2 on tail, 1-2 on
breast, 1-2 typical carriage and in color 2 points. Potal 4, leaving her
high and dry at 96.
Maybe you’re “losing money on de
goods” and it’s time you knew
about it.
Numbers of farmers throughout
the great central west, keep hogs as
well as chickens. It often happens
that the older hogs get mad at the
hens for jumping into their trough
and finally they snap at one and get
a taste of chicken.
Then it is “all off” so far as the
safety of the chicken is concerned.
Didn't you resolve last time the
hens squawked that you would put up
a "high board fence” (or a netting
one) between the hog lot and chicken
yard?
as far behind the times as for one to
cut a field of wheat and tie the bun-
dles by hand.
All student of “chickenology” know
that each separate fowl has individ-
uality in disposition and needs.
Shall we not resolve to study our
birds more this year than ever be-
fore? And plan to meet their needs?
That is the way that advancement
has been made by the great poultry-
men of the past.
MRS. W. C. OPFER.
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the New State Poultryman.
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Griffin, C. W. New State Poultryman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1908, newspaper, January 1, 1908; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937647/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.