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The Kellerstrass Way

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Raising Poultry

By ERNEST KELLERSTRASS
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I give the purchaser of this book the right to make
and use any and all of the appliances herein contained. The
owner of this book may employ others to make or build any
of the buildings or appliances. But persons who do not own
the book have no right to use any of the plans or drawings.

Price, SI-00

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ERNEST KELLERSTRASS
KANSAS City, Mo.

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Introduction

It has been my constant aim in writing this book to use common sense
and to give the public as much good practical information as I possibly could,
and remember that this book was written by a man who is out working with
his poultry every day. It was not written by a man sitting at the desk in the
office with a pencil, dreaming of what could be done, and if you ever visit
my farm I hope I will have the pleasure of showing you what we actually do.

I have been several years writing this small book, and the reason it took
me so long was because I would not write anything until I had tried it out
satisfactorily; and the best advice I can give anyone who is about to embark
in the poultry business is, start small and learn it as you grow; then you
are sure of success; and no matter what breed of chickens you start with, buy
the best you can find. A good foundation is the main thing in any line of
business.

I bred my first chickens thirty-six years ago and have had considerable
experience, and my experience has always been that the closer we stay to
nature, the better we succeed.

My way of raising chickens may be different from all other breeders in
the world, but please show me one breeder who has been more successful
than I have. There may be lots of them who can write how it should be
done, but where is their farm and where are their chickens? All I can say is
that I live in Missouri, and if you will visit my farm, I will ‘‘show” you chick-
ens, and show you that we raise them by the thousands, and raise them just
like I describe it on the following pages.

Yours truly,

ERNEST KELLERST RASS:

A FLOCK OF CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTON GHICKS ON a
HELLERSTRASS FARM _ ee eae

THEY DO WELL ANYWHERE—ON A GITY LOT AS WELL AS ON THE FARM

TO THE NEW BEGINNER

Remember, I have been a good many years writing this book, and it
is all by actual experience—no hot air dreams, but actual experience.

During the summer of 1909, I made a two weeks’ trip that cost me
* $150.00, but I received more than my money’s worth in experience. About
two months prior to that trip, a professor of a university came to me and
wanted to buy some of my Crystal White Orpington eggs, stating that he
had heard so much about my famous breed of Crystal White Orpingtons,
and after investigating the matter he believed they were the best all-
purpose fowl in existence today for egg and meat production, as well as
fancy. I thanked him very kindly for the compliment, but told him I
was sorry that I did not have an egg for sale; that every egg that would
be laid by my hens during that season: was already sold and contracted
for at 75 cents and $2.00 apiece; and you must remember, dear reader, ©
that I had about twelve hundred laying hens on the farm at that time.
But I finally told him that I knew of a breeder of whom he might secure
some eggs, and I gave him the breeder’s address. He sent and purchased
some eggs and placed them in an incubator. In a little over three weeks
he called me up over the long distance ’phone and told me that he had
hatched out about one hundred and eighty of the nicest chicks he had
ever seen, and you can rest assured that I was very much pleased, because

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I had recommended him to this so-called breeder. But in another week
he called me up over the ’phone and told me that he had lost over one
hundred of his chicks. I asked him if they showed any signs of bowel
trouble, and also about varicus other symptoms, but he explained to me
that there were no signs of the various diseases; they just layed down
and died. I told him I would call and see him the next day, which I did.
I looked his chickens over and they were the weakest, most consumptive-
looking things I ever saw in my life. I asked him what he had been
feeding, and what care he had given them, and various other questions,
which all seemed to be in regular order. I left him saying that I did not
know what was the matter with his chickens, but that I would try and
find out.

When going home on the car my own mind told me that these chicks
lacked vitality. While there was enough fertility to produce a germ in
the egg strong enough to hatch, there was not enough vitality—no doubt
caused by the parent stock. ae

That thing brooded in my mind until I finally said, “I am going t
satisfy myself.” So I took the train and went to visit the breeder fro
whom he had purchased the eggs. Rather fortunate for me, he was not at
home, and I did not make myself known to the gentleman who was so kind
to show me through the plant. But of all the filthy, run-down places that
I ever seen, this was it. About eight or ten different varieties of chickens
and about two dozen ducks running around—tin cans and filth, such as
I had never seen before in my life. But I finally found the birds that
my friend had gotten his eggs from, and there I found one male bird to
thirty-seven females. Now, dear reader, how could there be any vitality
under those conditions? You can rest assured that I have never recom-
mended anyone from that day to this, unless I knew more about the
breeder’s place or had visited it myself.

So let me say to the new beginner—be sure you know what stock
your eggs come from.

Another instance came to my attention this spring. I visited a mer-
chant one day while in the city, who told me that he had bought an incu-
bator and that he was going to fill it with some common farm eggs for an
experiment, to which I made no reply. But in a few weeks I happened
into this same place again when in the city, which was nothing unusual,
as I traded there, and he told me of his success with his incubator. He
asked me to go down into his cellar and examine his lay-out, as he called
it. I consented, and out of one hundred and forty-four eggs there were
three measly little chicks. Well! Of course, being well acquainted with
my friend, I could not help but laugh until I thought I would split my
sides, and in a joking way asked him if he was going to enter them in
the show next winter. In the meantime we examined the remaining eggs
and we found two-thirds of them perfectly clear—infertile—and the
remaining eggs had chicks in them partially developed, but had died in
the shell between the twelfth and sixteenth days on account of weak
germs—lacking vitality. So we came upstairs in the store, he setting up
the cigars, and we sat down and commenced to talk “chicken talk,” as I

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called it. Finally, I told him to get into my buggy and we would drive
out to the farm and visit the lady from whom he had purchased ‘his eggs,
and for him to purchase a few dozen eggs so as not to cause any suspicion
of what our visit might be, and I cautioned him not to make my identity
known, as it might spoil our mission. Upon entering we were greeted by
an elderly lady, very neatly but plainly and cleanly dressed, and the nicest,
cleanest-kept place I ever saw. There were about five acres of a nicely-
kept lawn, beautiful shade trees, fences, chicken houses and out houses—
all nicely whitewashed. In fact, I said to myself, ‘This is the most ideal
place for chickens to do well that I ever seen.”’ So, after a little chat,
we went around to visit the chickens. I finally cast my eye on a great
big, handsome, male bird, with spurs about four inches long. My friend
asked me what I thought of him. I told him he was a beautiful big bird.
I then asked the lady how long she had had him. She remarked that a
friend of theirs had given him to them about eight years ago when they
left Iowa. After going through the flock I found that all of the six male
birds that were there were all pets, and for that reason she did not have
the heart to kill them or dispose of them, and I also learned that each
and every one of them ran in age from four to eight years old—and then
expect fertility and vitality! I never use a male bird over two years old.
Another case that came to my observation about this same time was
when a party wrote me that his chicks, from five to eight weeks old, were
dying off very rapidly. Before I could answer his letter, he sent me a tele-
gram to come on the first train and he would pay my expenses and whatever
the bill might be. Now, this party happened to be a customer of mine, and
raised my strain of birds. So I went to see him, and the morning that
I got there he had three nice, plump chicks, about five or six weeks old,
laying upon a board that had died that night or that morning, as he said.
I took out my pocket knife and cut open the craw of one of them and
showed him what had killed that one. I found a lath nail, an old rusty
lath nail, about an inch and a half long in the craw of this bird. Now, if
. you haven’t had the experience, just watch your birds, and after you find
that they have died, just cut them open, and by a little experience you
will find the cause. This little chick ate this nail thinking it was a worm.
Sounds ridiculous, but nevertheless it is a fact. I cut open the craw of
another one—No. 2—and I found two tacks in this one’s craw. I cut open -
the craw of No. 3, and to my surprise I found five tacks in this one’s craw.
Now, then, the cause of the whole thing was that
he had tacked some muslin over a screen that he
had there, and just left the tacks and nails falling
around as they pleased, and these chicks had
picked them up and swallowed them. A chick #@
from the day it is born up until it is almost fully (@
developed will swallow tacks, nails, little pieces \¥@
of wire, or anything of that kind, and you have no ‘\
idea the hundreds of thousands of chicks that are
lost every year by this one cause, and the people
never know what happened to them. He asked

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me’ what my bill was. I told him I would not charge. ot a cent. He
thanked me very much, and I left for home. -

Another case that comes to my memory at ine css writing is .
where a breeder of Crystal White Orpingtons sent for me, and said: he
had lost two hundred and twenty-five chicks in the last three weeks and
that they must have the cholera. He did not know what to do to stop it.
Well, I said to myself, there is no such thing as cholera amongst this man‘s
chicks, because his place was located on perfectly dry ground, and there
was no chance for any cholera, roup or any other disease. Nevertheless,
[went to see him. Now this man’s wife was very neat and tidy about
her hen house, and in the spring of the year she had the hen house white-
washed every two or three weeks, so as to keep off the lice and mites—
that is, along in February and March. It was about the 28th of August
when I went to visit this place. They had forgotten all about the white-
wash and all about keeping things clean, because they thought the chicks
had gotten far enough along so they could fight their own battle. The
first one I picked up I found two head lice on its head right back of the
comb. The next one I picked up I turned its wing up, looked at its breast
after turning the feathers back, and I found that it was just as lousy as
it could be. The next one I picked up had five head lice on it. Now, it
was awful hard for me to tell these people that their chickens were lousy,
because I was afraid they would be insulted, because they had always
written and told me that they took the best of care of them; and as I say
in the spring of the year when I visited them, they had a beautiful, clean
hen house, as clean aS anyone might wish to see. But after the chicks
were hatched they seemed to think that they did not need any more care.
But when I showed them the lice on the head and all over the body, there
was no beating around the bush about it. Now these head lice simply
eat right down into the brain of the bird, and of course when they reach
the brain, that affects the spine and then goes down into their legs and
then you hear a good many people say, “My chicks get weak in the legs’’;
they look pale and just lay down and die. Not for one mniute will they
acknowledge, even though they should find the lice, that their chickens
were lousy. They will tell their neighbors they died with cholera or some
other disease. Remember, cleanliness is Godliness in the chicken business
or any other business, and you cannot succeed unless you keep everything
in good order.

Two Years on the Kellerstrass Farm

The Following Will Give You an Idea of How Things Are Carried
On in a Large Poultry Plant.

Now, on January 1st, we usually start our incubators, lighting them
up, running them for two or three days so as to make absolutely sure that
the thermometer is 103. Then we fill the incubator full of eggs. The first
day we do not touch them. The second day we just simply pull the tray
out and turn it end for end. On the morning of the third day I start to
turn my eggs. I turn them twice each day until the night of the eighteenth
day. I also test my eggs on the ninth and eighteenth days; some say you
should test them on the fifth or sixth day, but I wait until the ninth day
for my first testing, then I am sure. Don’t forget that there are millions
of eggs thrown out annually by inexperienced persons, which would have
hatched if they had remained in the incubator. The best tester that I
have found is a candle or a lamp. The old way suits me.

On the night of the eighteenth day I take a warm, damp cloth, spread
it over the eggs and leave it on until the morning of the nineteenth day.
Now the reason I put this damp cloth on is simply to soften the shell. I
do not care where you live, you have more or less trouble with moisture,
no matter what kind of an incubator you use, and if you do not use
moisture to a certain extent, more or less, during your hatch, you wil! find

- that on the last day you will have a number of chicks that will die in the
shell for the want of strength to pick their way through. Even with the
the moisture, I find that there are some of them once in a while that cannot
pick their way through. In that case, I just simply take my pocket knife
and pick a little piece out of the egg shell at the big end; I simply make a
little opening there for the little chick so he can pick his way through,
but be careful not to break the inner shell; put him into the incubator
under a moist cloth, and in that way I find that you can save hundreds—
yes, thousands—of chicks during the season. But after they are all hatched
on the twenty-first day, I still leave them in the incubator for about twenty-
four to thirty hours before I put them in the brooder. No doubt you know
the chick has enough yolk in it to keep it alive all the way from seventy
to eighty-five hours without food or water. Now then I have lots of people
ask me every day when they visit my farm, and a good many write to me

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and say, “What incubator do you use?” Let me say right here that I have
used something like eight or ten different makes of incubators and every
one that I have used has been a good incubator, but I will not recommend
anybody’s incubator. I have had a proposition put to me that if I would
recommend a certain incubator in this book it would net me not less than
$10,000 a year perhaps. But that is something that I will not do. My
reputation is not for sale. There is one thing that I can say, though, about
incubators. They are like an ice box or a refrigerator. You can take a
dry goods box, or a cracker box, put ice in it in the summer time and it
will keep. But you take a refrigerator that is well built—good, thick
walls—and you will find that your ice will keep twice as well and last twice
as long at half the expense, and it is the same way with an incubator.
Now there are some incubators that are built like a tin can or a pasteboard
box. Of course they will hatch more or less, just the same as a cracker
box will keep ice, but my advice is, get a good incubator, one that is built
substantial. There are fifteen some odd good makes of incubators made
in this country, and I would just as lief have one as the other, because I
have tried pretty nearly every one of them and they are all good, providing,
however, that you follow the instructions of the maker of that incubator,
because every manufacturer has different instructions. Let me impress
it upon your mind right here. Don’t listen to what your neighbor says
as to how he runs his incubator and what he would do, but you run your
incubator according to the instructions of the man who made your incu-
bator. He made it, built it, and the Lord knows how much time he spent
experimenting with it, and he can tell you more in that little book of in-
structions that he sends out with the incubator than all the would-be expe-
rienced poultrymen in the world can tell you in ten years. Remember
what I say—follow the instructions which came with your incubator, no
matter what they are, but buy a good incubator. There are millions of
good eggs wasted every year in inferior makes of incubators. Why not
buy a good one, when there are plenty of good, honest, reliable manufac-
turers putting out the best incubators today that were ever manufac-
tured in any country right here in our own country?

Do not go into the chicken business unless you buy a good incubator
and buy good eggs to put into it. It is just as foolish to pay $20 for eggs
and put them into a $5 incubator as it is to buy a $40 incubator and fill
it with $5 worth of common eggs from mongrel stock.

Now, then, when I take my chickens out of the incubator I take them —
into the brooder house and put them into brooders that I built myself.
The reason I built them myself is because I have had a lot of experience
with brooders and I find that with the brooder I built two years ago, out of
one hundred chicks that went into my brooder house there were ninety-six
of them lived and grew to maturity. During the season of 1908 and 1909,
out of every hundred chicks that I brought from the incubator cellar into
the brooder house, there were ninety-eight of them lived to maturity, but
you must also remember these eggs came from my own stock and they had
vigor and vitality, as well as fertility. Now, I want to say right here that
this sounds absurd. But my books have been shown to representatives of

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the daily newspapers and magazines and to poultry editors, who have pub-
lished these records time and again. There is no question in the world
about it. I did it and have proven it beyond any question of doubt.

_ Now, there are lots of people write and ask me, ‘‘Do you use the fireless
brooder, or do you use heat in your brooder?” JI have experimented with
the fireless brooders and with almost every other kind of a brooder in the
past thirty-six years, and I am just going to give you my opinion on that
right here. 3

The brooder that we use is described on another page in this book.
It is a fireless brooder; it is a brooder with heat in it; it is an indoor
brooder; it is an outdoor brooder; just any way you want to use it. During
the cold winter months I have them in the brooder house, which is a big
building with a roof and side walls with plenty of window lights to admit
sunlight for the little chicks, but a dirt floor, and during the cold winter
days and nights I light the lamp so as to keep the little chicks warm,
because they must have heat in bitter cold weather, and if they do not
get it they will never mature; they will never grow and make good, big,
stout, healthy, vigorous stock; mark my word—they won’t do it. A chick
that has once been chilled, if it does not die, will always be a runt.

But you take it in the spring and summer months, we take this same
brooder and set it out in the yard, put about fifty chicks in it, and the
heat of their own bodies is all the heat they will ever need after the first
or second day. But for the first and second day, I almost invariably heat
up the brooder for them, unless it is in extremely hot weather. Then, of
course, common sense teaches us that they do not need heat, just the same
as common sense teaches us that in extremely cold weather they must have
heat. There are all kinds of patent brooders and patent incubators and
new apparatus springing up every day and being advertised and telling
you how to get rich quick in the poulrty business, but let me teil you hon-
estly and candidly that experience and common sense beats them all.
Remember, I have no brooders or incubators to sell; I am simply giving
you my actual experience.

Now, some breeders may do better than I can. I am only telling you
what I have done, what experience I have had, and I guess I have spent
as much time and money as any living man on earth in the chicken-raising
proposition. My reputation in the poultry business has never been ques-
tioned by anyone that I know of. I get higher prices for my stock and
egos, and I have won more premiums in one year than any other living
man on the face of the earth. You must remember that what I am writing
here in this book is actual experience and happens right here on my farm.
It is not a dream put into a man’s head while he sits in his office writing
of what can be done in the chicken business and taking a pencil and com-
mencing to multiply and count his chickens by the thousands and by the
millions in his head. Remember, I do not count my chickens when they
are hatched. I count my chickens along about the first of October, when
they are laying and in their breeding pens, and not before.

Now, when I put these little chicks into the brooder after taking them
out of the incubator cellar, I dip their little beak in some fresh water.

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They do not get any of the water, but it simply frehsens them up; then
I put them in the brooder. I do not give them any feed for the first five,
SIx or seven hours; then when I do feed them, I feed them the yolk of
hard boiled eggs, mixed with toast, just common bread toast. I take this
bread toast and yolk of hard boiled egg and run it through a meat grinder,
just the same as an ordinary family uses in their kitchen. Now, the reason
I give them this toast is because it forms their first grit. I find that in
giving them sand or gravel, the little chicks do not know what it is, and
a good many will stand there and just pick the oyster shells, sand or
gravel, and fill their craws so full that they simply lay down and die. I
have cut open lots of them and found that to be the case; and if you are
feeding them grit and sand and will cut them open, you will find what
there is there and you will find what killed them.

Now, when I put these little chicks in these brooders, I have good
black dirt on the ground, covered with a little alfalfa or chaff from the
barn, and it gives them something to work and scratch on right away.
About a year ago, when several of the Eastern papers sent their repre-
sentatives out here to look over my plant, .they wrote pages about the
phenomenal success that I had made in raising 98 per cent of all the
chicks that were hatched. The only thing that I can say is, the reason
for this is because I kept them on good old mother earth; that is nature;
that is natural for them; that is where they should be.

When I set my brooder outside, I move it every day; just pull it
back and forth, if it is not over six inches. It gives them fresh grass or
fresh ground. In the mid-winter, when I have them here in the brooder
house, I either take a spade and turn that ground over, or when it gets
stale and all poisoned I simply throw it out altogether and put fresh
ground in.

To go back to feeding the little chicks, as I said, their first meal is
toast and the yolk of an egg. The second day I feed them hard boiled
eggs and toast the same as the first day, only I grind up the whole egg—
yolk, white, shell and all. Now the eggs that I use are usually infertile
eggs out of the incubators. If I haven’t enough of these I use fresh eggs,
because I will feed my chicks and take care of them. I feed them this
about every two or three hours, but never give them any more than they
will clean up. If I go around and find that they have not cleaned up
everything, you can be sure I do not feed them until they have cleaned
up what I had given them. Fresh water I keep before them all the time.
On about the third or fourth day I set a little trough in the brooder filled
with bran, and this trough stays full of bran all the time. It gives the
little fellows something to go and pick at. It helps to develop their craw—
and you must remember one thing—that a chicken will never be a big
_ egg-producer unless she has a good big craw. She has to have a big craw
so that she can take care of a whole lot of food, because it is what she
eats that makes eggs. If she does not eat, you will not get any eggs; I
will tell you that. At the same time I place the bran before them I start
to feed a little grain. Now, any of the well advertised chick feeds on the
market are all right for them. When I feed them grain I sprinkle it right

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on this black dirt that is in the brooder, rake it over with my hand a
little bit, so that it is kind of buried under the ground, and the little chicks
commence to scratch for it, and that is what they should do—they have
_ to scratch; they have to work for they have to have exercise, because I tell
you right now that is what develops your birds. That is what gives them
muscle, gives them form, gives them strength and makes them grow.
You cannot raise chickens on a hardwood, mahogany finished, parlor floor
and expect good results. The nearer and closer to nature you get, the
more and betier success you will have.

Now, after these chicks get up to about eight weeks eld, at which time
- they weigh from two to two and one-half pounds, and you cannot keep
them from weighing that if you just give them care and regular feed.
But my Crystal White Orpingtons are the only chickens that-I know of
that will do that, and, as a usual thing, when you see some incubator manu-
facturer or some brooder manufacturer demonstrating at a poultry show,
you almost invariably see him using my Crystal White Orpingtons. Why?
Because, as I say, they develop faster than any breed of chickens on the
face of the earth that I know of. You can breed them by the hundreds
or by the thousand, and they will average two to two and one-half pounds
in eight weeks. Of course, if you raise them and feed them for broilers
for the market, they can very easily be made to weigh two and one-half
to three: pounds when eight weeks old.

Now, remember, that not for one minute do I write this book to con-
demn any breed or any breeder, any incubator, brooder, incubator manu-
facturer or anything of that kind. But in the last thirty-six years I
have bred Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Buff Rocks, several of the different
varieties of Wyandottes, Leghorns; in fact, I have bred about eighteen
different breeds of chickens.

Now, I keep the White Orpingtons; am breeding the White Orpingtons
exclusively, because I think they are the best in the whole world. Of
course, every man has his choice and fancy of different breeds. We
cannot all see it the same way. While it is true, and has been published
by some of the best judges in the country, and some of the best poultry
journals in the country have said, that the White Orpingtons were not
on the map, were not known until I took them up. Of course, I bred
them White and I bred them up to size. If I had not done it, I would not
in the season of 1907 and 1908 have won over
90 per cent of all the premiums that were
offered in this country in the shows I made.
That is the reason I call my birds the ‘‘Crystal
White Orpingtons,” originated by the Keller-
strass Farm, because everyone whom I have
met at all the different shows, in the different
countries, has said they had never seen any-
thing like them. Of-course, today there are
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them being
bred all over the world, because I have shipped
to almost every known country on the globe.

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Now, as I have said, when they become eight weeks old, then I turn
them out and let them rustle for themselves, so to speak. I put them in
little runways out in the yard, about three feet wide and eight feet long,
with a little coop at the end, putting twenty or twenty-five to a runway.
But before I put them in these runways, I sowed these runways with
wheat, rye and barley and spaded it down about four to six inches deep.
I go in there every day and turn over one or two spades full of this dirt,
and of all the picking and scratching that you have ever seen birds do,
you ought to see these little chicks go after it. This seed that is partly
sprouted has a little green attached on the end of it, and that is where
you make them work again, and get the development into them and get
that vitality into them. I leave them in these runways until they are
about twelve or fourteen weeks old. It altogether depends on how many
we have on hand and how many we have remaining in the brooder house
as to how we have to push and keep pushing and crowding them out.
But from these little runways, I just simply turn them out over into the
orchard and there I leave them until fall. They have plenty of room
there and find plenty of bugs and grasshoppers. I give them grain each
day and the little wheat bran box is before them all the time. I leave
them there until about the first or middle of September. Then I com-
mence to put them into the breeding pens and breeding houses. I usually
take about one male to every ten females. Let me caution you right here.

Be sure they are not related. You cannot mate up brothers and
sisters in the chicken line or tn any other line and expect results. Be
sure they are not related, the male to the females. 7

Also see that you have a good male. Remember that the male is
two-thirds of the flock when it comes to breeding. That is one thing
I am very particular about—my male birds. Perhaps I will take a
chance on a poor female once in awhile by mating her up to a good male
bird, but never will I take a chance on a poor male bird.

Now, in these breeding pens I put to one male about ten females.
I put them into these houses. Now these houses have old hay, straw
or litter of some kind on the floor, all the way from six to eight inches
deep, and there is where I do my feeding. About seven o’clock in the
morning I go into these houses and I feed them cracked corn, wheat, oats
and kaffir corn; just throw it right on this litter. There you are back
to nature again. I make them work for what they get. They have to
scratch and dig in this litter. That is what gives them exercise, and a
hen that does not get exercise—do not believe for one minute that that
hen will lay. They have to have exercise in order to lay, and then when
they do lay that egg will have vitality and strength, so that when it
hatches the chick will live and grow and make a good, stout, healthy chick.

At noon I feed them sprouted oats during the winter months when
there isn’t any green food. In another part of this book I tell you all
about sprouted oats.

Between four and five o’clock in the afternoon I feed what I call
my mash feed. Now, some breeders feed a mash in the morning and
feed a dry feed in the evening, because they say the bird should have

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some grain in its craw and let it ferment there and warm them up dur-
ing the night. Well, of course, we cannot all see it in the same way. I
do it my way, the other breeder does it his way. I feed the grain in the
morning, because it simply makes them work and keeps them busy all
day, and makes them exercise. That is why I feed it in the morning,
and the mash I feed in the afternoon between four and five o’clock, which
consists of cut clover or cut alfalfa, steeped in a little boiling water, and
that is mixed with bran, chops, wheat, oats and some grit mixed right
in with it, so that they get some grit in their craws to grind up their
feed and make egg shells, and also fresh meat and bone. Now, I get one
hundred pounds of fresh beef shipped out here every day from the pack-
ing house in Kansas City. I buy the neck off of the beef. Then I have
my bone grinder here and grind it up—fresh meat, bone and all. Now,
of course, when I say one hundred pounds a day you must remember
that goes to about eight to ten thousand birds. I figure that each bird
should have just enough green bone to equal, say, from three to four
grasshoppers or bugs each day. This meat is mixed right in with this
mash and with the skim milk of the farm, when we have skim milk, and
when we do not. have it we use water, but of course I prefer the skim
milk. Lots of times during the year, when I can get it, and do not have
it on the farm here, I buy skim milk from the dairies around here. I
mix that all up into what I call a dry mash. I feed it, you understand,
as dry as I possibly can; that is, I do not want it sloppy. I want it moist,
but not what you would call sloppy. That is the last meal they get in
the evening, but be sure and keep fresh water before them at all times.
Now, whether my food theory is right or wrong, that is simply a ques-
tion of opinion among the different breeders. But there is one thing that
no one can dispute, and that is, that my birds do lay, because I have
records like no breeder in the world has ever been able to beat or to show,
so far as egg production is concerned. That is one thing I pride myself
on and devote my whole time and attention to—the egg production. I
do not care how fine a Jersey cow you have, if she does not give milk—
what good is she? And it is the same way with a chicken. No matter
how fine they are, if they don’t lay, what good are they? When I won over
90 per cent of the premiums that were offered in this country in the sea-
sons of 1907 and 1908, and won the sweepstakes at Chicago for having
the best bird in the show room, over and above all breeds of chickens,
not barring any, right then and there I said—I have shown them that
my chickens are all right for the show room. Now I am going home
and continue on breeding them up for egg production, and since that
time I have devoted my whole time to egg production, and I am doing
it at the present day. I do not know that I will ever go into a show
room again with my chickens; not at least until some breeder makes as
good a record as I have made during the seasons of 1907 and 1908. Just
as soon as the poultry journals will show me that there is a breeder who
has made as good a record as I did, you can rest assured that I am go-
ing into the show room, and I will beat him. If I don’t, I will just simply
quit the poultry business. But up until the time that some breeder does

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make-as good a record as I do, I am going to stay at home and devote
my whole time to egg production. Jt is eggs—that is what. we. need.
There isn’t a breeder in the world today, not barring any, who can show
that he made chickens produce as much in the egg-producing line as_I
have. If there is, I would like some poultry journal to mention it. The
poultry journals, as well as the daily newspapers and. magazines all over
the country, have published time and again what I have done. Now,
remember, dear reader, as I have said time and again, this book is not
written with a whole lot of fancy words and flowery speeches. It is
simply written by a man who has had actual experience, and this book
is written every day as I go along with my experience. It: is all written
from actual facts. . : Pe Se Be ae Bi eee

Now, going back to the chickens—these chickens that are in their
breeding pens are never left out in the yard or in the runway from about
November 1st until May 1st here in my country; it all depends upon the
weather, of course. They stay right in that house, and they have to do their
scratching, digging, feeding and egg laying right in that house. Now, you
may catch a nice sunshiny day along in March or April, and you will say,
well, I am going to let these chickens out; it is such a._beauitful sunshiny
day. But there is cold damp frost in the ground and the sun is draw-
ing it out, and that hen will go out and walk around on the ground, wet,
damp and moist; the first. thing you know she is standing on one foot
and then on the other foot, and she will go back to the house and retard
and not lay an egg again for two or three weeks. There is where you
lost by letting them out. As I say, my chickens do not go out until the
first of May—until I know there is no more chance of cold weather or
frost being in the ground. After the first of May I let them out in the
runway. ‘They remain in these houses and runways until along about
the first or middle of July. Then I break up my breeding pens, I sepa-
rate my males and females and put them in separate runs. Of course,
you understand a female will lay just as many eggs without the male
bird as with him, but they will not be fertile. After the first or middle
of July, I am not looking for any feritle eggs; don’t want them. I then
commence to feed a very little grain once each day, just enough to keep
her alive and keep her going. I let her get down just as thin as I feel
she ought to get, and along about the 15th of August I commence to
throw the feed into her and feed plenty of sunflower seed. Then you
ought to see the feathers fall. They seem to shed their feathers all at
once. The feathers all drop out and she gets her new coat of feathers
and they come out fine, pure, white and glossy from feeding this extra
feed of sunflower seed. They get through their molt before the cold
weather sets in. Along about the 15th of September she is plum through
her molt, ready to be put into a breeding pen again, and she starts to
lay, and lays all the whole winter through. Remember, that if you do
not get your birds to laying by September or October, they are liable to
not lay until spring. I always get my birds through their molt early,
so that I may get them started to laying before cold weather sets in,
and they keep it up all winter. It is the same way with my little chicks.

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I always try to hatch my little chicks early, so the pullets are all matured
by fall, so they will start to lay and will lay all through the winter. You
take a chicken hatched in July or August don’t you ever believe for one
minute that you are going to get many eggs from that bird that fall or
winter; that is simply impossible; she is not matured. Now, there are
lots. of breeders who will tell you: Oh, hatch in August; you can raise
plenty of them in August. Yes; that is true, you can hatch and raise
them in August. But it will be the next spring before that bird is de-
veloped, if it ever develops to amount to anything. It will be the next
spring before that bird will start to laying. Now, I do not want any
summer chickens. I want chickens that will lay all the year ’round. I
don’t want chickens that will only layin the spring. I want chickens
that will lay from one fall to another, and that is the kind of breeding
which my past record and my daily record shows.

Now, remember that all through this book I am simply trying to
tell you what I am doing, and I suppose that every bredeer has his own
way, and we may all differ. But there is one thing that I can say, that
no breeder in the world can say, and that is—when I sold that pen of
birds to Madame Paderewski for $7,500 (seven thousand five hundred
dollars) remember, five chickens for $7,500—that is the highest price
that was ever paid for chickens in the world.

Remember, when I took thirty hens and made them net me $68.00
a year per hen, that no other breeder ever made a record like that. And
besides netting me $68.00.a year per hen, i had three-fifths of the eggs left
for my own hatching. Now, when I take that all into consideration, I
just figure that I have perhaps done a little bit better than any breeder
in this country. While you must remember that I am a life member of
the American Poultry Association, and I have a good feeling toward
every breeder of any breed in the world, I want to say to you right here
—don’t you breed my chickens unless you feel that they are the kind of
chickens you want to breed. By all means, when you start in the chicken
business, first find out what kind of chickens you like best. Then go to
some good, honest, reliable breeder and buy stock or eggs from him.
Don’t breed my kind of chickens if you don’t like them, because you will
never make a success with them. But whatever you do, only breed one
kind; you will never make a success trying to breed several different
varieties. Always take the kind that you like best. If you visit me,
and I have visitors daily—no matter what kind
of chickens you are breeding—my son and my
men are always instructed to give the visitor
all the information they can, because, no mat-
ter what kind of chickens you breed—if you
make a success of them, that is what helps
the poultry business, and every time you make
a success, no matter what kind you breed, as
I say, it helps the poultry business, and what-
ever helps the poultry business helps my busi-
ness, because I am in the poultry business.

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There is one thing that I cannot impress upon your mind too much,
and that is this: Buy the best stock and eggs that you can buy, no mat-
ter what breed you are going to breed. You can go and buy some cheap
stock or eggs and you will spend a whole year’s time and hard work,
and then you have made a failure of it; you wonder why. That is what
hurts the poultry business, and anything that hurts the poultry busi-
ness, hurts my business. For that reason, I say—buy the best stock that
you can buy, and if you cannot buy good stock, do not start at all. Do
not go out and buy some cheap mongrel stock or eggs and start in. Do
not do it. Leave it alone for another year, until you are able to buy
good stock.

Now, remember, when you buy this book from me, I simply give you
all the information that I can, and the actual experience that I have had
in the poultry business.

Be KK

WORTH ANOWING

Experience is the best teacher.

If you start at all, start with good stock.

Cleanliness is Godliness in the poultry business.

You can keep a good hen just as cheaply as you can a poor one.

Have plenty of grit—the sharper the better—available for poultry.

When hens stop laying they may often be started again by change
of feed. 3

The successful breeder never goes to his neighbor for advice. “He
hasn’t time.”

There are only two classes of people who never make a mistake—
the dead and the unborn.

Protect your brooder chicks from cold, wet weather, if you don’t
want them to have bowel trouble.

Never allow incubator chicks to become chilled. One-half the ills
of young chickens arise from this cause.

To follow nature in hatching is generally tne best plan. Little chicks
and warm weather work together in a harmonious way.

Don’t feed corn alone. Give the hens some wheat and oats if you
want plenty of eggs. Corn makes fat rather than eggs.

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It hardly ever pays to doctor a sick chicken, but it does pay to use
the most improved methods to prevent disease.

It is useless to expect success with incubator chicks without a thor-
ough understanding of feed and care for them.

Keep your poultry house dry. Chickens can stand cold if it is dry,
but combined with dampness bad results are almost sure to follow.

Try shaving some young sweet corn—or even field corn—for the
young chicks and see how greedily they devour it.

Young chicks should be kept somewhat hungry rather than incur
risk of overfeeding, especially if they are taking little exercise.

Do not stuff your hens, thinking that you make them lay. Throw
feed in the litter and make them work for their meals.

Eggs are the foundation of all poultry production. A few people
place form and feathers first, but they do not measure up with the rest
of mankind.

When hens lay soft shelled eggs it is a sign they are too fat. Cut
down the amount of grain and feed more vegetables and green food.

Coal ashes thrown about the poultry house are sure death to the
small, blood-sucking mites. Use plenty of them and keep on using them.

The beginner should confine his efforts to one breed is an old in-
junction, but a wise one. It will not pay to have your attention too much
divided. ‘

If brooder chicks get chilled keep up the heat and give light feed
for a few days. With proper care on this line they will soon come
around all right. ;

Don’t feed chicks with corn meal dough. Give them finely cracked
grain or rolled oats. The tendency now is to give all feed dry.

No hen can do her best roosting in trees. She should not be ex-
pected to do well when improperly fed. She should be cared for as if
she were an egg producer.

In starting with an incubator on the farm, use a small size. It is
' easier to fill it with eggs and you can handle it more readily.

Green food supplies mineral salts. The difficulty is the small amount
of salts to bulk of food. Yet a little green food keeps the blood cool in
mid-summer weather.

Learn to figure out a balanced ration for your fowls when you can,
but most farmers will learn by practice to give the right feed in proper
proportions.

It is a mistake to try to keep too many hens for the room you have.
Better drop off a lot of them and give the rest a chance. You will do
better, and so will the hens.

Keep the sexes apart till needed for breeding purposes. This will
insure greater fertility of eggs, and infertile eggs keep better for market
purposes. |

A nervous hen cannot be relied upon for a good setter. The chances
are that she will get excited when the chicks come out and leave the
nest permanently.

Keep plenty of shade and green food all through the hot months.

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Also keep the dust boxes full and the water vessels supplied with pure,
fresh water.

To get rid of disease and vermin the fight must be constant. Sul-
phur is about the best thing to keep off lice, and wise care and feeding
will prevent disease.

Beware of overcrowding young chicks, or any other. There must be
plenty of room in the brooder, on the roost and in the range. This is
why small flocks succeed.

No one grain alone will keep chicks or fowls in good condition. A
variety must be had, and if they cannot obtain the variety by foraging
it must be fed from the farmer’s bins.

To have early winter eggs, put your hens through the moulting
period before summer is over, while eggs are cheap. A fast of two or
three weeks, followed by rich feeding, does the work.

If the hen will not pay for her board in eggs, she should be made
to yield a profit by being slaughtered and her carcass sold. No poultry-
man should keep drones; he cannot afford it.

When the hen is through setting burn all the old nesting material,
disinfect the nest box, and give it a coat of liquid lice-killer to make a
good job of it, and then put in fresh straw.

Experiments have proved that a hen in good condition will eat on
an average four ounces of grain in the morning, two ounces of grain
at noon, and three ounces of mash in the evening.

Dampness in the poultry house must not be allowed. Remember
also that fresh air is a tonic, and that poultry of all kinds will do much
better if their roosting quarters are well ventilated.

Pure water on the farm. Have you got it? It may look clear and
good, but are you sure that the well is so located that it is not being
contaminated by surface water or some other agency?

It is just as well to have a well bred chicken as a well bred horse
or cow. Any amount of food and care will not make a mongrel as profit-
able as a pure-bred under the same conditions.

One of the best ways to disinfect a brooder is to open it wide, take
out the hover, and let the midday sun shine on both for a couple of hours.
The sunlight will kill the germs it reaches.

In building the house, do not have the roosts too high. A foot or
two is high enough. There is danger of fowls injuring themselves flying
down from a high roost, especially the heavier birds.

Old hens commence laying late and leave
off early. Old hens, unless they are very val-
uable as breeders, are seldom profitable to keep,
considering their record throughout the year.

Green bone and scraps of waste can often
be bought at the butcher shop at a reasonable
price, and this makes an excellent feed for poul-
try if given to them while fresh. Never feed
decayed meat.

Start with the breed you think you want,
and then stick to it. The stock raiser who

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shifts every few years to a new breed never gets anywhere in his opera-
tions, except nearer to the poor-house, perhaps.

Filthy drinking vessels are the cause of many serious ailments of
fowls. Continued drinking of impure water will produce what is com-
monly termed cholera, and the flock is soon wiped out.

Remember, the hen when laying needs about twice as much feed as
she would if not laying. Like any other machine, she must be furnished
with material from which to manufacture her finished product—eggs.

Once a week, at least, disinfect the drinking fountains and dishes
used by the poultry by scalding them in boiling water. Infectious dis-
eases are spread very rapidly through the feeding troughs and drinking
fountains.

When the ground is frozen and snow-covered, where do your biddies
procure their grit, or teeth, unless you have thoughtfully provided it?
Some farms are all picked over, and there is no grit to be found there,
even in summer.

With the rapidly increasing prices of beef, pork and mutton, the
poultry comes to the relief of the people. Eggs take the place of beef-
steak for breakfast, and a roast fowl will be served for dinner instead of
roast pork, beef or mutton.

Eggs are made up largely of liquid matter. When you keep a hen
shut away from water or some kind of drink, depend upon it you will not
get eggs very long. Keep a good lot of nice fresh water where the hens
ean get it all through the day.

Chicken should never be eaten the day it is killed. The tenderest,
freshly-killed chicken will be tough as soon as the animal heat has left
the body. In about twelve hours, however, the muscles will relax and it
then becomes acceptable for food.

Immediately after dressing poultry, it should be thrown into ice cold
water, and allowed to remain there until all the animal heat has left the
‘ body. Neglect to do this is very apt to cause the carcasses to turn green
in parts by the time they reach their destination.

A hen that begins to lay in November and lays even as many as ten

eggs a month through to the end of February, at the prices that prevail
in any town, has paid for her feed for a whole year, and ali she produces
the remaining eight months of the year is clear profit.

It is attention to little things that makes for success in the poultry
business. One of these little things is to rinse out all the drinking vessels
before putting fresh water in them. Filth is a srue breeder of disease,
and disease means disaster, and disaster is not what you are looking for.

Poultry, like sheep, can stand a great deal of cold, if it is only dry
cold. Hens that are given plenty of exercise in a sunny, scratching shed,
that may be entirely open on good days and curtained with cloth on stormy
days, will be healthy and lay in the coldest weather if fed properly.

If your old stock has to be kept confined in a small vard all summer,
don’t forget to give plenty of green feed. Lettuce makes an ideal green
feed for fowls. Better plant a little patch for summer use. The chicks

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would like it, too. Cabbages and mangels should also be planted for fall
and winter feed.

The hen that does all her laying during the summer should be disposed
of along with her chicks. Her small profit cuts down the average and
discourages the fancier. It costs just as much to keep her as the others,
and the room she and her offspring occupy should be given to the winter
layers and their chicks.

Don’t be in haste to complain when you have bought a setting of eggs.
The trouble may grow less, or entirely disappear, by waiting. The ap-
pearance of newly hatched chicks is often deceptive. It takes time for
color to settle right. Black Minorcas often show white in the chick stage.
Gray in chicks of the white breeds may be a good sign rather than a bad
one. Postpone sending letter of regret to your dealer and you may find
it unnecessary to send it at ali. This will save unpleasant feelings on
both sides.

Many a failure, especially among farmers, can be traced to inbreeding
their poultry. I believe that this is not generally practiced from a desire
to do so, but because of neglect. It is not attended to when it should be
done, and when it is called to mind it is generally too late to purchase
breeders, and another year of inbreeding is practiced. That is one reason,
and another is due to the fact that it costs more to get good males from
a breeder than it does to select a few of the best in the flock for that
purpose.

A farmer raises hogs and when he takes them to the market he gets
from six to twelve cents a pound for them, and it costs from four and
one-half to ten and one-half cents a pound to raise them, figuring the
corn that he feeds them, by the time they are ready for the market. —

His wife raises chickens and when she takes the old hens to the mar-
ket she gets not less than from eight to thirty cents a pound for them,
and no matter how poor a layer the hen is, you can rest assured she
laid enough eggs to pay for her feed several times over.

So it is easy to see what profit there is in poultry.

JANUARY.

Don’t go into the poultry business if you do not like chickens.

Before starting the incubator, carefully test the thermometer, as
the best of them go wrong sometimes, and a season’s changes may
upset your hatch. Your family physician will have a clinical ther-
mometer in his pocket at all times, and he will be glad to test the in-
cubator thermometer for you. Don’t bother him to test more than
one, as you can test the others, if you have more machines, by the
first one.

Provide your hens with plenty of nests.

Feed them more heavily and with a larger proportion of Praia
food. They will be laying some, but a large percentage of the eggs
will be infertile, or poorly fertilized. Give them some green food—
alfalfa, cabbage, cut clover, or chopped vegetables.

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Better give the breeding hens a little more room than the layers,
and if you find you must sell a few pullets in order to do this, send
them to market. 3

Get your incubator this month and be sure you have plenty of
brooder room. Most breeders make the mistake of not providing
enough space for the youngsters after they hatch.

' Late hatched June and July pullets should begin laying this month,
if they have been properly fed and cared for. Broilers and roasters
started this month bring the cream of the year’s prices, and the parent
stock should be selected. They should be laying well now, and the
fncubators and brooders put into working order and the work started
early in the month.

Chickens hatched in the middle of the winter need good brooding
accommodations, and while the style of the house and plan of brooder
may vary with the owner’s fancy, for a safe proposition nothing equals
the small colony house with an individual brooder contained therein.
The chicks should be kept confined closely to the brooder until one
week or ten days old, then allowed the run of the dirt floor of the
house for another week. When two weeks old daily out-of-door exer-
cises must be provided and insisted upon. Chickens cannot be grown
successfully without it and leg weakness is sure to follow if one at-
tempts to rear them without this. Feed them something they like on
a bare spot of ground just outside the building and provide easy ac-
cess to and from the house (no stairs or blind passageway) and they
will work back and forth under zero weather conditions with nothing
but benefit to themselves and their owner.

This is a good month to lay out your work for the year. Begin
now and figure out what your requirements will be the coming season.

FEBRUARY.

Our cities are growing rapidly; our people are appreciating the
value of fresh eggs. The price keeps working up and will continue to
work up until you receive 75c per dozen for eggs during the holidays.
Get aboard!

If your early hatches show signs of leg weakness be sure that
they get an out-of-door run. In fact, feed them out of doors on the
bare ground one or two feeds per day of some delicacy that they are
very fond of. Get them out into the open air after they are ten days
of age, regardless of temperature. Shovel off a spot right down to
mother earth, and do not be afraid to let them eat a little snow.

Start the brooder in a clean house, with not more than 25—40
chicks together. Feed liberally, better up to the wasting point than
to let some of the chicks go hungry. Let them have the run of the
house when ten days old. Do not let them bunch up out in the bright
sunlight on cold winter days. The sunlight has a fascination for them
and frequently they will huddle together and get chilled outside in
preference to going to a warm hover chamber. It is sometimes better

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to hang a thin curtain over the window glass to avoid this’ trouble
until they reach a more ae ane age.

If one keeps hens for eg g production alone, there will be no need
of having any male birds. It costs at least $1.00 a year to feed a
male bird. Better keep an extra hen.

You will have to put on your thinking cap often nowadays, or
the other spring work will crowd out the chicks. Do the fair thing by
them. Their success during the rest of the year depends on it.

If your rooster is old, do not have too many hens in the pen with
him, if you expect the eggs to hatch.

Don’t allow them to be excited. Don’t unnecessarily ace them.
Keep strange dogs and strange people away from their quarters. Give
them plenty of nesting. Be careful that the eggs are gathered before
they have a chance to get chilled. ;

Winter chickens, in fact, all chickens, should be well fed in order
to get the benefit of the quick-growing habit of the previously selected
ancestors. Surely the youngsters cannot make bone and muscle out of
a “pleasant view” or “good, sunny weather’; something more satis-
fying to the appetite will answer much better, and while plenty of
good vitalizing air must be provided, so must an abundance of food be
always within reach.

It does not matter how carefully you breed your poultry, or how
well you care for them, or how well you incubate and brood the chicks;
if you feed inferior chick feed your entire season’s effort is soon a
thing of the past.

Every experienced poultryman realizes that the first two or three
weeks is the crucial period in the lives of his chickens. Upon the health
and thrift of the chickens during these few weeks depend the profits
of the whole season and of the year’s business.

When -we have learned to look upon every chicken hatched as
possessing decided possibilities of profit—a profit which may come,
perhaps, in the form of a fat, toothsome broiler; a big, plump, juicy
roasting chicken; an early laying pullet; the head of a breeding pen;
or, maybe, a show prize winner—we shall more fully realize the im-
portance of giving them every opportunity for healthy, rapid growth
and development. The greatest pains will be taken to hatch eggs
from only the best parent stock. At no time during the brief life of —
the chicken shall it be allowed to wait for sound, sweet food, presented
in the most palatable form. We shall not be good to the chickens for
a few weeks and then leave them to shift for themselves, but shall
see that they are kept growing, and shall push them every day until
serving the purpose for which they were hatched. Every hour of un-
satisfied hunger means loss.

Almost without exception in all other forms of bird and animal
life the growing period is the fattening period of life. In other words,
the birds or animals carry more fat on them during this than any
other time of their lives, and in the face of this the old teaching told
us to keep them hungry. Is it any wonder that the hens did not lay;

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that the youngsters did not get to standard weight or that poultry
keeping did not pay? I repeat, feed your youngsters and your chickens
will always be ready for the table or market and show you better re-
turns than ever before.

A pullet or well-matured cockerel represents the combination of a
very small chicken, quite a large amount of feed, and some other con-
ditions. When we stop to consider the size of a chicken when hatched,
weighing as it does, only about one and one-half ounces, and when ma-
tured from ninety to two hundred ounces, we realize how much they
must depend upon their feed to mature properly. The right condi-
tions are essential, but not very hard to provide. Feed, the balance of
the combination is simple. Hen-reared chickens, when running at large
with the mother hen, are fed a continuous stream of bugs, worms,
grains, seeds and grasshoppers from daylight to dark. There is no
interval of fasting, only brief, warm-up recesses or naps; the entire
day is spent in trying to ‘“‘fill up.”

MARCH.

Don’t go. into the poultry business if you think you can make a
success of the business and half feed your flock. The hen’s body wants
come first; if there is any surplus it is made up into eggs. It is up
to you to provide the surplus.

By figuring out about how many broods of chicks there will be,
and counting over the coops, building more if necessary, and having
them placed where they can readily be reached at time wanted, a
good gain will be made, and there will be no need of rushing around
looking for a coop when other work is pressing, or else using the
handiest thing for the hen and her chicks and losing many in conse-
quence.

Following a hard winter this is the month of poor hatches from
' stock that has been fed upon poor feed and partially smothered all
winter in glass houses. Such stock needs a few weeks’ exercise in the
_ open air to get thoroughly alive again.

Test out the infertile eggs from the incubator, carefully throw-
ing out all the “veiny’ ones, saving only those that are absolutely
clear. You will find these perfectly good for cooking purposes or sale-
able to bakeries.

Set all the broody hens that come along this month. Keep the in-
cubator full. Swap the eggs out from under the hens into the machine
after they have been going ten days. The machine will finish them
up better than the hens and deliver more chickens with no lice. An
incubator and the hens working together make a splendid combination,
beats either one working alone.

Brains are needed as much as capital in the poultry business.

As a rule the eggs from hens that did heavy laying during the
winter will not be so fertile as eggs from hens that made but a fair
showing.

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If you ship eggs for hatching, use the best and lightest package.

Alfalfa makes splendid litter for brooders and runs for early
chicks, always sweet and not expensive.

Karly January hatched broilers can now be marketed as the de-
mand for this month does not call for them to weigh over three-quar-
ters to one pound each. Market limited as to number required.

Pullets gotten out this month will give results in the fall.

Cockerels March hatched, caponized, sell at good prices for roast-
ing chickens during August and early September. This month is usu-
ally the year’s lowest point for prices on eggs.

Save every bit of sour milk you can for the poultry. They will
make as good use of it as any creature on the farm.

Healthy chickens live unless abused. Healthy hens lay eggs that,
if not abused, hatch healthy chickens. Now it is up to you; if you are
losing chickens, why? Are you abusing them, or did you abuse the
old stock? Abuse may come in two forms—neglect or over-attention
—trying to keep your birds too warm in winter, feeding improper
feeds, etc. You may be keeping your incubator too warm, not running
your incubator properly. There is a reason for the death of every
chicken. Try and see this year if you cannot cut last season’s mortality
down one-half.

Get the spring coops and fittings cleaned up and in working order.
Chickens will soon be plenty and time scarce.

A variety of grains should be used at all times to secure the best
results, either with growing stock or laying hens. When confined to
a restricted ration, young stock do not fill out well, are more subject
to disease, and fail to reach the size that they would attain if fed
liberally upon a carefully balanced mixture. Laying hens are more
subject to disease; acquire pernicious habits of egg eating, feather pull-
ing, etc., simply as a result of the natural craving of an appetite un-
satisfied. Given a carefully balanced ration, they acquire none of these
bad habits, and show their appreciation in full baskets of strong, fer-
tile eggs throughout the year.

An egg is the product of a very wonderfully developed and sensi-
tive organism, containing the nucleus of undeveloped germs for genera-
tions upon generations to come. This action of the generative organs
is a very heavy drain upon the hen’s system; nothing parallels it in
nature. A milch cow is an approach, but she is not drawing on her
reproductive organs as often as in nature, but the hen has, by man’s
careful manipulation, increased her reproductive capacity many times
over since becoming a servant of mankind. This saps her vitality and
we can only hope to keep her wonderfully made machinery in opera-
tion without interruption or breakdown by placing within her reach
an abundance of such food as she likes.

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APRIL.

Proper feeding is what puts those nice, plump broilers and roasters
on the market and gives us the big, hardy pullets that lay all winter
and in the spring produce the kind of chicks that are bound to live if
given half a chance.

Cull your flock closely. Market everything that is not making val-
uable use of every kernel of grain it eats. Don’t house any loafers.
Get them into money.

If not intending to use broody hens for setting, break them up at
once. Have a comfortable, cold, airy place where they may be shut
up until they are over the brooding fever. Don’t let them waste time
on a nest. Get them to laying again.

A good garden, a flock of hens and you can cut your grocery and
provision bill in half, and begin to live where you only existed before.

Get the breeding stock out of doors, give plenty of room; not too
many females with your males. About one male to ten females.

If you have previously lacked the nerve, take all the windows out
of your poultry house this month, provided, of course, that they are all
in the south side and no draughts on the roost result. Don’t put them
in again.

Better caponize the cockerels if intended for roasters. Place in fair
sized yards or let them run at large, and feed and feed hard. These
chickens are going to be worth thirty cents a pound in June and you
cannot afford to have them stand around a minute waiting for the feed
to come. The more they eat, the better the profit; skimping the food
doesn’t pay.

There never will be too many good poultrymen; don’t be afraid of
that. Be one of the best.

Let a few of the hens hatch a clutch of chicks, if you have no
. Incubator; set them the second time, it rests them.

January and February hatched broilers are now selling well and
prices during the month should be at the top. If you think there is
- more money in them as broilers, let them go now, if they are large
enough. The market calls for larger broilers this month than in Feb-
ruary and March and wants still larger sizes in May. Always give the
party paying the bill what they want—if they call for two-pound broilers,
do not send one and one-quarter pound, or you will lose in price.

This is one of the best months to hatch pullets for middle fall and
early winter laying. Get out all you can.

Don’t throw away that setting of eggs simply because the hen left
the nest and they got cold. Unless they have been exposed to freezing
temperature for 24 hours, in many instances the hatch will come along
as if nothing had happened, if you put another hen on and let her finish
the clutch. |

Try this year and have a nice lot of five or six pound soft roasting
chickens to sell during the Christmas holidays.

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Use all the poultry manure in top-dressing the grass land or on the
garden plot.

We do not wish to discourage any of ie crops of the farm, but we
are sure that selling the milk to contractors is not good farming. We
are positive that one-fourth of the capital invested in poultry will pay
more profit and rapidly increase the fertility of the soil, while selling the
milk has the opposite tendency, and entails an endless amount of hard
labor from which proper returns are not forthcoming.

Broilers are in better demand during the last part of April and first
of May than at any other time of the year.

February chickens should be weaned from brooders and placed in
colony houses this month.

This is a grand month to hatch out your fall layers.

MAY.

There is only one way to feed poultry if you would make a suc-
cess of the business; feed them with the right kind of feed from “hatch
to hatchet.” |

Nothing but lice will cause the old hen to leave her eggs when she
has settled down.

Setting hens are lice breeders. This is one reason why the incu-
bator is to be preferred for hatching chickens.

The chickens are free from lice to begin with, and it is not such
a difficult matter to keep the lice in subjection.

A good many coops of poultry go to market in a crate that weighs
as much again as the birds. Express costs just as much on the coops
as on the birds. | . 3

Whitewash the chicken coops and disinfect the hen houses; disin-
fect at: least once a week, and continue through the hot months to come.

Stop the red mites before they get started—prevention is better than
cure. |

Outdoor brooders must be kept under a shed or some kind of sun
protection to maintain the even hover temperature desired. In teach-
ing young chickens to run in and out of outdoor brooders regularly, use
sod or a pile of dirt for them to run up and down on. Also when build-
ing their first yards make them (A) shape with the apex in the end at
the opening of the brooder, then the chickens will have no corner to
bunch up in during the bright sunshiny days and their education
takes much less of the attendant’s time.

If you are through hatching, break up your pens and market the
old cocks all but the very choice ones that you are expecting to use an-
other year. They are a nuisance with their quarrelsome habits and are
a continual bill of expense.

Be liberal with your estimate and have chickens enough and to
spare. If you have twenty-five per cent to spare when filling your laying
houses they will always find a ready sale, and this gives you an oppor-
tunity to cull closely and reserve only the best for yourself.

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Try marketing your birds alive. We don’t know of a more nerve-
racking job than picking a lot of broilers without tearing the skins.
Many times you can get as much for them alive as you can get for
them dressed. The labor saved is a big item.

Broilers are going down in price and the market is calling for
larger birds, two and one-half to three pounds each, this month.

March-hatched chickens should now be leaving the brooders and
if they have been properly hardened, will take quite airy roosting coops.

Be careful of them on cool nights when first put out; see that they
do not pile up and smother one another.

Don’t let the rats get a foothold.

January and February chickens intended for early market should
have grass runs and feed before them during the balance of their
lives.

JUNE.

Thousands of women are engaging in live poultry keeping, finding
it a sure and profitable method of making money.

If you want to use brooding hens, this and next month are good
months to set them. They will raise a greater percentage of chicks dur-
ing the hot weather than brooders, and if allowed to take their own
course, will raise these and go to laying again during August and
September, when eggs are paying a good profit. She will be found
to do good work during the hot months in brooding chickens. Give her
a corn field, orchard or patch of weeds in which to grow her family,
and she will nearly pay for herself before cold weather gets her.

Remove males from breeding yards aS soon as season is over.
Keep the best for another season. If you have three or four, put all
together in an open yard on a good hot day at noon time and in a few
minutes they will find the master and all future disputes will be re-
ferred to him for settlement. Keep them by themselves until wanted for
' breeding pens.

Begin to work off the less valuable and more broody of the old

hens.

Look hard for lice. Don’t let the bugs get a start.

This is a good month to caponize.

Market all the broiler stock on hand.

Prices are still good.

If you are through with the incubators, give them a thorough
cleaning, remove the old wicks, empty the oil out of the lamps, then
store the machines in a dry place until next season.

Don’t be afraid to give the chicks all the sour milk they will eat.
Good for them. If there is anything better, we have never found it.

Have a closely woven wire door to your chicken house and don’t
forget to close it at night, or some rat, skunk, owl, fox, cat, mink or
weasel may deplete your stock.

When dressing poultry be careful to cool the carcass properly, else
it will heat and result in loss. Cool well, keep well, is the rule.

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Milk (skimmed, sweet or sour) is one of the best feeds for growing
chickens and it will pay double the profit when turning into poultry
that it will when fed to pigs. Give it to those youngsters to drink.

The deadly louse is at work.

Have you provided shade in the runs?

Look out for rats. Do not allow them to have any hiding places
near the coops.

From June 1 to July 4 is the top of the market for roasting
chickens. January and February roasters, capons and pullets should
all be turned into money while the price is at the highest point. Here
is where I think the roaster has great advantage over the broiler. These
same chickens in April were broiler size and would not have sold for a
great deal more per pound that month and were weighing only two
pounds each. They now weigh four to five pounds each. No mortality
and a handsome margin.

The days begin to get hot; see that the brooders are in the shade;
that the chickens have shade also, that they all have abundance of water
and green food. Both are cheap and almost equally important. One-
third of the growing chicks’ living will be from green food if given a
grass run, and how much cheaper; the gain on this ration is easy to
figure.

JULY.

The demand is for heavy chickens and heavy fowls. Get busy, buy
large male birds; use larger females in your breeding pens; feed all
through the growing period, and you will increase the average weight
of your flock, one to two pounds each. Think what this means to you
when marketing.

Spread the growing youngsters out over the hay fields this month
after the hay is cut and you will lose nothing, next season’s crop will
be better for it, and if you lose some of the second crop it will be muecn
better fed to the chickens than to any other farm animals.

Do not think that the chickens can live on grasshoppers, give them
all the feed you can get them to eat, with the grasshoppers as an extra.

Stuff the old hens that are almost through laying with feed and
corn. You can easily add a pound each to their weight and get more
‘ eggs from the change of diet.

Look out for mites in all your new coops and houses. Also in the
old ones, but they seem to thrive better in the new wood.

Women make the best of poultry keepers and all find the work in-
teresting, pleasant and very profitable. My way removes all doubt of
success.

Keep the house as cool as possible.

Shady nooks are relished by the hens.

The most profitable hens, as a rule, are not the stylish ones.
Keep on fighting the army of lice. |
Lice like to hide away under the ends of the roosts. Every time

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you spray, lift the roosts and give the pests a dose that will drive them
out for good and all.

There ought to be a law forbidding over fifty chicks together.

Be careful in gathering eggs; don’t let any suspicious ones get
mixed in. One bad egg is enough to put a question mark on the whole
week’s production, and may lose a customer.

Renew the nests frequently.

Don’t dry feathers under the direct rays of the sun; put them in
the shade where the air is dry and warm.

After this season of the year it is a good thing to send broody hens
to the market.

July is termed a late month for hatching laying pullets, but if you
have not ample stock by all means get out enough to make good. If
these chickens are given as good care as outlined for June chicks, they
will mature in January and February and make the best of summer
and early fall layers. It is useless to expect the early hatched pullet
to keep laying all winter and spring and still keep at it through the hot
weather. Really, these late pullets are nearly or quite as profitable as the
early ones, for they lay splendidly during August, September and Octo-
ber when fresh eggs bring good prices, and at very small cost. Do not
despise the late chickens.

Let the March chickens have plenty of roomy roosting coops. Keep
the feed always within reach. !

About this time, put the caponized males in yards fifty feet square
for fifty birds, push them with fattening feed and plenty of meat scraps
with liberal feeds of corn and barley and wheat.

Do not hold cockerels intended for market too long. Remember,
as a general thing the price per pound is going down after they reach
this size and it is up to you to get your money out of them at the earli-
est opportunity.

For instance, a 5-pound chicken sold in August will usually bring
‘eighteen to twenty cents per pound, while if the same cockerel is kept
until November, then weighing six pounds, he will be hard and not
worth twelve to fifteen cents per pound. In other words, you have lost
three months feeding by holding.

AUGUST.

See that the growing stock has plenty of room to expand. Be sure
that every chicken you own has plenty of elbow room to grow in and
see that he is never overheated after nightfall. This is a bad month
for crowded quarters. Often the seeds of next winter’s crop of roup
are sown in this month, simply by keeping the youngsters crowded into
quarters about the right size for one-fourth the number. Results: The
chickens are too hot at night and take cold by getting out on a chilly
morning in September and waiting round for the sun to warm them up.

It is somebody’s fault if the little summer chicks are dying. The
tender little fellows cannot withstand heat and lice combined. Protect

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them from the sun and get after the lice.

The old rooster crows well, but he is a tyrant. Either sell him or
get him away from the laying hens some other way. He pesters them
so that they cannot do their best.

Remember, that I have experienced about all the poultry troubles
in the calendar.

When the poultrymen all find out that the first year of a hen’s life
is the most profitable, they will begin to market their old hens as fast
as they start moulting. They should push them hard the first year,
then buy or raise pullets to take their place. Early moulters are fre-
quently slow moulters, taking eight to ten weeks for the process, while
the late moulters will get through in half the time. All the old surplus
stock should now be marketed. Getting on to moulting time, and the
egg crop is gradually dwindling.

Leg bands will be found valuable in fesdatas your ide. a

August is a good money-making month. Prices of poultry are at
good paying figures; eggs bring better returns and chickens hatched this
month make splendid roasters during February and March. |

August-hatched pullets will be found rather more profitable if
turned for market than kept as layers.

Shade, green stuff and plenty of water are all very essential for
August chickens of all ages and sizes. Keep the different sizes by them-
selves, we must help them all we can and let them have their share of
the ‘fat of the land.”

Begin to market the old hens as they stop ie Be sure that
they are good and fat. |

This is a bad month for mites.

Keep a cat or two about the poultry fonceer they can be trained
to let the chickens alone, and will save what trouble they cost many
times over in keeping out rats and mice, the most troublesome vermin
with which poultrymen have to contend.

Poultrymen need plenty of houses.

Their prosperity depends upon plenty of room for growing chickens
and old stock at all seasons.

Most of the failures in poultrydom can be traced back to croned
quarters. Birds that are crowded night or day, kept in hot brood coops
or tight houses soon wilt away with colds, roup and canker. )

Now keep your birds healthy and you will prosper. Divide your
flock, give the youngsters more elbow room. Most beginners in the busi-
ness build too expensive buildings. They would have much better suc-
cess if they covered double the space with the same money. Cheap,
roomy, airy houses spell success with poultry.

I wish every one keeping poultry realized how anxious I am to have
them succeed and how deeply I feel the fact that poultry possibilities
are little dreamed of by the average reader.

I try to keep all my writings free from ‘fairy tales’ or a single
over statement that will tend to mislead any one. In so doing I some-

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times think I overstep the other way and do not paint the picture as
highly colored as it deserves.

I do not tell you that $10, $20 or $50 can be cleared on every bird
kept, and that all you need is a dozen fowls in your back yard to be-
come independent, but I know that there is no industry for the farmer,
the suburbanite or the backyard that will begin to pay the profit for
time and trouble expended as can be had from poultry.

SEPTEMBER.

I repeat my last month’s warning; keep the chickens cool nignts,
do not let them pile up or sweat, see them personally and provide plenty
of room. Get them out of the trees as soon as the nights get frosty, put
them in winter quarters, but keep the house cool.

Prepare the hens now for fall and winter laying.

Prepare the pullets also.

LEG BAND.—Keep track of the different lots of cockerels, and your
different breedings by a system of banding the birds.

I do not advocate warm poultry buildings, but I do insist that they
must be dry and free from draft.

Now the July pullets of last year will give a nice yield of eggs at
prices that pay handsomely. Let them stay in the house until summer ;
in fact, after they go into winter quarters never let them out of the
house again, and you will get more eggs.

Begin to get things pulled together for winter; it is some ways off
but will soon be here. Get the regular fall cleaning done and by the
latter part of the month have everything ready for a quick shift if there
is need. More birds start in the wrong direction and toward a winter
sickness in September than in any other month. Keep up a spraying.
Feed every atom they will eat.

Get the capons to market, for prices are now on the downward scale
and it does not pay to hold them once they are in condition.

March pullets should be laying this menth.

‘Keep working off the old hens, watch your flock of growing young-
sters. If you find a number that lag behind the others, put them by
themselves and see that they have a little better chance.

Have your houses all cleaned out, and put in six inches of clean
sand or loam.

Keep the hens happy and healthy. The contented hen fills the ege
basket.

September hatched chicks should be brooded in out-of-door brooders.
Each brood of chickens from cone year’s end to another should have a
new spot of land to grow on, but this is particularly true of late or hot-
weather hatches. Re sure all roofs over your plant are tight; if not
make them so. Change the sand or gravel before the fall rains, and
whitewash or disinfect all winter quarters.

To get the maximum number of eggs from the amount of birds,
confine them in small lots of from twenty-five to thirty, allowing them

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three or four square feet floor space to each bird. See that they get a
liberal amount of pure air through one opening in the south side at all
times, night and day, winter and summer. Do not let them out of the
house during the winter.

OCTOBER.

Gather the leaves for litter. The farmer will have some cabbage
that did not head up good. It is just what you want. Spread it on the
north side of the house and cover with about a foot of old hay or leaves.
See that your house is banked up around the bottom so as to avoid |
drafts.

All your birds should be in winter quarters this month. The earlier
March hatches should have been under cover last month and should
now be laying quite.steadily. It is always better to house them a month
or six weeks before they begin to lay; for fall laying is against nature’s
laws and on the slightest provocation she steps in and puts an end to
the unnatural production and it is hard work to regain the ground lost.

Be sure all of the chickens are out of the trees before the cold rains
start in, and when changing birds from the trees into the houses, see
that the houses are as cold as they can be kept during the nights with-
out having draughts striking the birds on the roosts.

Take your window out of the poultry house; substitute waterproof
sheeting or muslin; your hens will thank you for it,—more eggs,-—better
health. .

Select next season’s breeders now, and choose the ones that have
made the most rapid growth as youngsters, 1. e., the ones that have
reached four to five pounds’ weight in the least number of days and at
that weight would have presented an attractive carcass dressed.

See that they eat as much bulk of mash as of the scratch-feed, and
if they show too much partiality for the scratch feed cut it short for a
few days until they are eating the mash freely.

Some chickens grow one end at a time and during their early days
are sometimes all legs, while they mature into quiet, well proportioned
stock; then again some of them have the appearance of standing still
and making little progress for a month or more, when they shoot ahead
again. All these should be weeded out, and a quick-growing, hearty-
eating bird that was well proportioned at four or five pounds chosen.
This does not mean the undersized, small, precocious chap that gets
“cocky” when very young. These are the very ones that you should
avoid, for they will run the size of your stock down very rapidly if bred
from. Choose rather the male bird that does not discover that he is a
male until six or seven months of age. He has been busy putting bone
and muscle together and he will make the right kind of chickens. _

In most parts of the United States poultry should be in winter
quarters and everything snug and in shape for the cold winter which
is now liable to come at any time. The secret of success is proper feed-
ing and cleanliness. Keep up their appetites and keep down the vermin.

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Get all the surplus stock and all the odds and ends marketed. Keep
only what you can properly feed and care for.

NOVEMBER.

Be sure every old hen is marketed before this month is out unless
you want them for breeders another season.

Watch for draughts in the house.

The hens are keeping union hours now. They say the way to a
man’s heart is through his stomach. You must jolly the hen the same
way.

One of the best helps toward keeping the quarters warm in winter,
at a nominal cost, is to have the floor well littered to the depth of from
three to six inches with dirt, cut straw, hay or leaves. This protects
against loss of heat and prevents cold currents from below, and may also
be used in which to scatter the grain to keep the fowls active.

November is a month of long nights and short days; while during
the summer months the birds are on the roosts eight hours or less and
are busy eating the other sixteen, now the reverse is the rule and they
should not be kept waiting a minute for the owner or attendant to feed
them. Keep feed always there, and as soon as it is light enough they
ean begin filling up, and naturally they are at it from morning unt'l
night. No chance for a feast, then a famine, as under the old system.
This is why results are so much more certain with me.

Never allow any one or anything to scare the chicks or fowl. The
people who are on intimate terms with their poultry so that they cen
pick up the hens at any time are the ones who get the large egg yields.

Choose the breed according to your fancy, if you will, and then
stick to that variety. Continual changing has never made a successful
poultryman.

Stop up the cold draughts, but do not keep the fresh air out of the
poultry houses. The poultry will stand almost any degree of cold, but
draughts mean sure trouble.

Better gather your eggs for hatching several times a day; during
this kind of weather eggs quickly chill.

| Try to out-distance your -neighbor in raising poultry next spring;
but do it in a friendly way, don’t boast about it.

Push everything to market early this month as the late holiday
markets are seldom satisfactory.

July and August chickens should be pretty well feathered out and
able to care for themselves if properly housed.

Eggs bring long prices this month. |

DECEMBER. |
Mid-winter is here, but alfalfa is good feed; see how well chicks like
it in the bottom of the brooder.
Not much room needed for poultry ae in your back yard.
Mark your hens with leg bands and avoid trouble with your neigh-
bors.

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In selecting breeders for the broiler or roaster that is to be hatched
next month, choose the male as per suggestions in October, and select
females that are of good size, hardy, vigorous breeders, birds that from
the shell up have never known what it was to lose a feed. JI strongly
favor the large varieties for all purposes for they lay as well and make
much better poultry than the smaller breeds. Select hens, yearlings,
that are well through the moulting and about ready to lay, or pullets
that have been well matured before starting to lay, thus insuring good-
sized eggs, mate not over six to ten females with a male that has been
kept away from all females until this time, and the chances are you will
get eggs that will hatch those strong, rugged chickens that will! live
through tornado, earthquakes and blizzards.

Be careful about shutting your house up too tight. Keep them open
enough so you won’t get any frost on the roof.

December and January hatched chickens mature in June and bring
the highest prices for the year.

Keep an egg record. Try and have an intelligent idea of what your
poultry costs you and what it returns. Don’t bother with hot feeds.
Drinking water may be warmed, but should not be hot. Keep the birds
busy scratching.

_ Back yard poultry keepers have a great advantage in some ways
over the more fortunate farmers who are farther away from market. I
have frequently noticed that there was a constantly increasing demand
for strictly fresh eggs, and the man or woman who takes up poultry
keeping in the thickly settled communities may rest assured that the
surplus eggs he has to dispose of will bring five to twenty-five cents
more per dozen than the wholesale prices.

Chickens can be kept in a very little space in a shed in the back
yard. You can buy a few dozen well developed pullets and need not raise
any chicks unless you like. No chickens being raised, no male birds are
kept and the neighbors have no complaint to make of his early morning
crowing.

It will be found in most cases that the table waste from an ordinary
family will furnish the living for three dozen hens. With the premium
the neighbors so willingly pay for eggs “right out of the nest,” and this
saving in the feed cost, I am safe in saying that from $3.00 to $8.00
profit can be realized on each laying pullet.

USE MY WAY AND YOU GAN RAISE THESE BY THE THOUSANDS

How I Made Three Thousand Six Hundred ($3,600.00) Dollars
in One Season From Thirty Hens on a Lot 24x40.

Now, at first sight the above seems absurd and looks like an im-
possibility, but that it has been done by me no one dare dispute, after I
have been willing to give the names of the persons who paid me the
money, which in itself is an evidence that no one can dispute.

The possibilities in the poultry business are so great that no one
can predict the future. I myself say almost every day—there is no tell-
ing how much money can be made out of the poultry business with the
proper amount of care, breeding and energy.

Now, the thirty hens referred to above were in my thirty dollar
mating yards in the spring of 1909, as per my mating list of that sea-
son. I sold these eggs at $2.00 each. Now, why did I receive $2.00 each
for these eggs? Because they were worth it, and you must remember
that nearly all of these eggs were sold to breeders of chickens, and a
breeder wants the best—no matter what they cost—where the new be-
ginner usually wants the cheapest, and that is why he does not succeed.

Why were these eggs worth $2.00 each? Because they came from
the choicest breeders from my whole entire flock, which took care, work
and scientific breeding to produce, and the breeder, unlike the new be-
‘ginner, would rather pay a good price and get started at once with good
stock.

Now, no matter how small you start, if you start with good stock
you are bound to produce good birds which you can dispose of readily at
a good price.

~ The above thirty hens were placed ten in a yard 8x40, right here close
to my house, with one of my best male birds in each yard. Three times
each day when I got up from the table I gathered up the scraps and
went out and fed these thirty hens. There are six persons in my family
and there were always plenty of scraps for these thirty hens. Now, why
did I feed these thirty particular hens the table scraps? Because it is
food that no poultryman can buy, and it is the best in the world for egg
production, as well as for fertility and vitality. The little potato scraps,
meat scraps, vegetables, bread crumbs, celery tops, radish tops and onion
tops—why, there is no grain or manufactured food in the world that

38 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

will beat it, and that is the reason why so many people living in the city

get so many eggs and good results from a few chickens. Why, if I could
feed my whole entire flock the table scraps I could show results that
would surprise the world. These thirty hens received but very little
grain. Once in two or three days I would throw in a little grain, but
only to stimulate their appetites.

You must also remember that besides selling $2,048.00 worth of eggs
from these thirty hens, I hatched several hundred of their eggs myself,
and at the same time I returned money to parties, telling them that I
could not fill their orders, because I was bound to save out enough eggs
for my own breeding purposes, and at the same time I was selling thou-
sands upon thousands of dollars’ worth of eggs from my other stock at
$10.00 per setting of fifteen eggs, this being the cheapest price I had
that season, and returned money every week for orders that I could not
fill. I simply mention this to show you the possibilities in the poultry
business.

Now, the exact results from these thirty hens from September 1st,
1908, to June 20th, 1909, were as follows:

Thirty hens made an average of $68 each in ten months from eggs
alone. These thirty hens laid, between September ist, 1908, and June
20th, 1909, four thousand and thirty-three eggs, averaging one hundred
and forty-one eggs each in a little less than ten months’ time.

Now, I sold one thousand and twenty-four of these eggs for $2,048.00,
leaving me three thousand two hundred and nine eggs for my own use.
In other words, I kept three-fifths of the egg production for myself and
sold two-fifths of the egg production for $2,048.00. Then, after dupli-
cating the infertile eggs and sorting out I raised four hundred and
eighteen birds myself from this mating, and I never sold a bird for less
than $5.00, which can be verified by all my customers.

Four hundred and eighteen birds at $5.00 each, $2,090.00; $2,048.00
worth of eggs sold—total, $4,138.00, allowing $538.00 for labor, adver-
tising and other expenses, leaves me a net profit of $3,600.00. If you
are interested, I can furnish you the names of these persons who bought
chickens from me at $5.00 each.

Now, the average person will say—how ean I get the high prices for
my stock and eggs that Mr. Kellerstrass gets? Simply by raising good

stock and advertising it. If you will note there is one item of $538:00

for labor, advertising and other expenses. Most of this $538.00 was
spent in taking the birds to the shows, and in that way they were adver-
tised. Whenever people find out that you have good stock they are willing
to pay the price, whether it is for fresh eggs, for broilers, for breeding
stock or show stock. There is always a big demand for a first-class ar-
ticle at a good price. 3

The following are the names and the addresses of the persons who
paid me $2,048.00 for the eggs from the above thirty hens.

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Names of people who bought and paid $2.00 apiece for eggs from
thirty special hens in yards 1, 2 and 3, between September Ist, 1908, and

June 20th, 1909:

© A> Anderson. : 3... Spokane, Wash. ..... 105) eggs mee TIGNES. 00
eG. Allens: so. 5.00. Kenosha, Wis. ..... 30.00
hos... Burns:.... Colorado Springs, Col; * i 30.00
ets VDVAGY 2 5 is: 2 oes Parker's: Landing, Pasa 3 7% 30.00
I. M. Bellinger..... Mohawk, N.Y. 222. Ss yc area ie 30.00
Ed Biederstadt. ..... Madison, Wis. ..... hig VR ce s 30.00
Georse Birk. 2.55%. Hamalton:Onte; Can. ule 388 a 30.00
Pek: Bartlett sa. 0:. Graco m a Win ae cee ai tee Ss a 30.00 —
ite Crukshank.<... Denver, Colo... 2... SSE NA fac ae a i 30.00
Mrs. M. H. Crawford. Shepardstown, W. Va. “ “ = ‘ 7 30.00
Pena LOUZCY . 2 2.0.5). eT Mlle sys tales fens Pai nesieueaah a 30.00
mews Wumenil. ...'. Bartlesville sOkia si eee Re 30.00
Stic, Bmmerick. ..... Dayton, Ky.'. 53.0... pes aa ee =f 30.00
“(ES eS ee oe Rockford: tiles 2.0 ten Me Ce s 30.00
W. E. Etzensperger.. Willoughby, Ohio. ... “ “ ‘* s 30.00
ae. ailChers 6% 5. ; Sachamentod Calis ee ey ce 30.00
Ricoh Good.... .Ghariton, lowar 65.0.0" «eo o% a 30.00
Moses, B. Grifiine..... Shelter Isl. Hts., N.Y. “ “ . “ ‘ 30.00
ie Goodiriend: .:.., Anaconda, Mont. .... 15... %.: * a 30.00
Crews Gabel: s5.6.. Burlimeton. Ne Di j5e 0s tes = 30.00
nas: Gabels ss... Hawkeye, lowas. 56 Set BS 30.00
ahomas ©. Hunt: ...Blue Island, Ill:.... Rp ge a is 30.00
Sonn Ws. Eallic: %-2 2. Northtields: Minnie. on Sy ES 30.00
Ries... barrie nichlands lowas obs.) 0 oS a 30.00
Davie Hil 2223525 Salina, WWwans. os 75... ar ceed eget. e 30.00
Mrs? J. Eo Harniey .. Zion City, Tl... 22... Sb) DLR LOT EE ss 30.00
Wied. Kendall: 2.5. Independence; Mo: 2. “oo ae 30.00
ion b, weckridee. —..2 Liberty, Indi i... ..:. a ae ee ie hes < 30.00
He OMG eS rere vie ETttle Siowce Lowa no ie zy 30.00
Dre. C. Meredith: 2. Pittsbure, Pan... 2. Riles alr ae a 30.00
ae de. Mitchells. o.. Karmimeton, Wtah. oho ol oe os s 30.00
Walter Miller. ..... Wa ynesinumee Parts ee aS “ 30.00
eA Maibauehs.... laberty,: Ind...) <4... Rete cate ra 30.00
Dees. C. Manns. <-Oconomowoc, Wis. .30 50 as a 5s 30.00
Ce le aN innot 6. Jeanerette: Laces SE ze 30.00
Mrs. Clara Moore....New Bloomfield, Pa.. “ “ “ x 30.00
LO) Maller 32's. Philadelphia Pas sare? 0 ees a 30.00
as AW oN en @sie ea.) 2: Porismout ia Obion 3 kit) (ou 4 30.00
Jboyd. Pantlinds=..Grand Rapids, Mich.-** 9“. oS 30.00
PMs Phillips cc. Mindens aes 2, Gan Un mien ae 30.00
wok: Pollock. New Castle, Pa..... Sa go ee 30.00
eee CHALOM .: “OOLeVeEDOre, La... she ee ee a 30.00
nerbert. ©. kya... oaulh os. Marie Miche <a 3% os i 30.00
Mrs. J. LL.) Richardson.Nevada, Mo. ...... Peeieiekae “soar % 30.00
Fe ME ONY Ger. 6. 6. Ee INNA ee Scag es 30.00

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Mrs: J2W. Thomas... Strathcona, Alby Can. 3 = y 30.00
H. C.Wilhamson.s. 2 Mempinge Renmis he pn ve 30.00
Sidney Ly Wrights... Germantown a 2 oe ee 30.00
Ralph E. Woods..... Shelton, Neb... Bo ee ae nS 30.00
Pennil 10, ieleiela. 6354 - Plano iis su eee i titer ciate ae “ 30.00
J. EL. -BaEnes..% Sosa Garfield, Wash. ..... Ole wipes os 16.00
fe. CU Bolick.. oie 8 Brichtons tenn. : as. Sap fatten e 16.00
liza: Me Chabheld= ssseymoule: ©Ol ies. oe ee - 16.00
Drs J.B MGrist.s ae. Golconda, 1d akon Sete a Seay te a 16.00
Dr. Ro S. Dombaugh: -Walde,-Ohie. .... .. ie, Cipher te y 16.00
ESR. COUnn 25. oe. Fruitvale, Cal. ..... Re ie oo 16.00
Dire Ce Prisbie: 2... Koquinuuke Pasi. ac eee ak an 16.00
CG. He Perrane ek. Poccoa, Gav as ee te oy anges 7 16.00
By Me austecs.. 6. Younestowm, Olio... 19 yee! of 16.00
M. B. Glotfelty...... Sharpsbure: Parca el ae. 2 16.00
Chas. B. Garrison....Fairfield, Jowa. ..... Cae e ae tee of 16.00
O. S. Greenwood..... Malden, Mass. ...... . See bees yy 16.00
We i Gerhart 2.45. Pocahontas; howe G:. 2-6 eas ic 16.00
C. WeeGillam... =. Windom, Minn. ..... hme ee of 16.00
dice We IESt ec ean WoodriverviNeb: = .2.:0° 70. i; 16.00
Py dewblarilee. 267i Chattahoochee, Ga..4.- 3. 3 ie 16.00
BE. ©. Mofiman..... 4. Wheeline. VW iWacse. OS . 16.00
Rev. A. A: Jasper.... Augusta, Mo. ....... BF eee ani e 16.00
We ae Kildow 2.0. iti OltOs veo. 2. LER eres ey 16.00
Hdwin J. Leonard... Wikland, Pas .5.-.. Sree eee a 16.00
W.-H Morris. 2 Knox lid... ies, He une ee * 16.00
Jase ft. O Brien... 37 Cascade, Iowa. ..... pies eho - 16.00
Mrs. W. A. Richards. Denton, Texas. ..... Bees ageesb ey o 16.00
Eorenzo “Rogers: ..... “Aiken<S. Go. se... epemas hrentatts = 16.00
S. 9.. SDCNCeRe aso. EClevelamnds Olio. as 16.00
Chas. 2: Sherrarded: sluadd: ike oo ee eg Te ey 16.00
C..S. Simpson2. 242. Me@laine lowe. a. SS Wet kk akties Py 16.00
iL: KO Dhompsont.. 22. Primcetomy lille sys. acl savas Cele * 16.00
Mrs. Mary Zastrow..Amhurst Jct... Wis...“ “~ ~* “ 16.00
foe - CO SZCA KO cee HaibenueN. ios. Be ay gral os ie 16.00
AB Vee ata Danielsvallley Pav ae ie ge ne i 16.00
SA. Be Colling a. aa if Yates Center, Kans con) = eas ‘ 16.00
W. DeiStomers..45 25 schuylkilintlaven: Page =o) ie ae 16.00 ©
Alice kK. Williams... 2 South Omaha, Neb. 110 325) FS 2.0.00
Total ee gon ee eee: ee es AP al a eae ca nee Scho eae $2,048.00

The above is a record that no breeder in the world can show, barring
none. Mr. Grant M. Curtis, editor of the Reliable Poultry Journal, wrote
a personal letter to each one of the above parties to satisfy himself, and
then stated that it was the most remarkable case that he had ever seen,
and that it just showed the possibilities in the poultry business.

OF RAISING POULTRY. Al

GETTING THEM READY FOR THE SHOW

How i Prepare Birds for Show Room to Win.

Now, I can only tell you how I prepare mine. No doubt different
breeders have different ways. But you must remember that in 1908,
the last year that I showed, I won 90 per cent of all the premiums of-
fered, besides winning the sweepstakes at the Chicago Show for having
the best bird in the show room, over all breeds, including the American,
English, Mediterranean and Asiatic classes.

Then I said that I had accomplished what I had worked for, and I
have never shown since.

But the following season my customers, who bought stock and eggs
from me, won seven hundred and thirty-eight first prizes. Certificates
signed by the Secretaries of the various shows vouching for the above I
have published at different times in the poultry journals.

Now, in preparing birds for the show room. About four weeks be-
fore the show, I go through my various flocks and I pick out my best
specimens, bring them up to the conditioning house, and from day to
day for the following two weeks I look them over and keep sorting them
out until at the end of.two weeks I have nothing but the very choicest,
high-class specimens left,

Then I take a tub of warm water and some good, pure, white soap,
and I wash the bird thoroughly, rinse him in another tub of clean water,
then place him close to the stove and let him dry. When he is dry I put
him in a small coop with nice, clean straw in the bottom, the coop having
been previously prepared. I leave him there for one week, feeding and
watering him regularly; then comes the final cleaning for the show. Al-
ways use soft water.

I get three tubs, set them in a row. In the first tub I have my
warm soap suds, in which I give him a good scrubbing; then I give him
a good rinsing in tub number two, in good, clean, soft water; then I

42 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

rinse him again in tub number three, which is clean water with bluing
in it just the same as you would use in washing a white shirt, collar or
a pair of cuffs. Then I rub him with a coarse towel until 1 cannot get
any more water out of his plumage. Then I place him in a nice, clean
coop with clean straw in it, next to a red hot stove. When he is about
half dry I sprinkle corn starch—remember powdered corn starch—all
over him; that will give him that nice fluffy appearance when he be-
comes thoroughly dry. But never allow your bird to sit down while he
is drying, because if you do, his body and breast feathers will become
ruffled and shaggy, and it will spoil his looks.

Now the bird is ready to be shipped to the show room. But you
are not through yet. Oh, no! The finishing touch is to be put on, and
that I do the first morning in the show room. I take a small finger nail
file, or a fine piece of emery paper, and I rub and polish his beak and
his toes. Then I take equal parts of alcohol and sweet oil and a small
piece of flannel or woolen cloth, and I rub the above solution on his comb,
wattles and feet, and it gives him that beautiful, healthy color so much
admired by every one.

Now the above seems like a lot of work and bother,—but remember,
when you go to the show room you go to win, and a few blue ribbons
may mean thousands of dollars to you.

Now, this one article is worth one hundred times the price of this
book to any poultryman, because I can say frankly it has brought me
thousands upon thousands of dollars—knowing how to condition your
birds so they will win. |

As soon as you win a few blue ribbons, people will begin to inquire
about the price of your eggs and stock, and you at once will find out
that you can get $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 per setting for your eggs in
place of having to sell them to the market for thirty or forty cents per
dozen.

I say from experience you will never succeed in the fancy poultry
business until you take your birds to the show room, and then place an
advertisement in some good paper and you will find out how easy it is
to make money out of the poultry business.

I sold a doctor in Pennsylvania his stock and eggs with which he
started in the spring of 1908. The next fall he won blue ribbons at
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and numerous other large shows. He vis-
ited my farm the next spring and told me that he had to return money
almost daily; that all the eggs he had to spare he had sold at $20.00 pe:
setting of fifteen eggs, and that it was impossible for him to anywhere
near supply the demand, and that it had beat any investment he had
ever made.

THE ABOVE IS A PIGTURE OF MY FAMOUS THE ABOVE IS A PICTURE OF A PEN I SOLD
$10,000.00 HEN “‘PEGGY’’ FOR $7500.00

How I Raised “Peggy,” the Famous Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dol-
lar Hen, and the Famous Pen of Five Birds That I Sold

to Madame Paderewski for Seven Thousand

Five Hundred ($7,500) Dollars.

Now, I have had breeders ask me that question a thousand times—
how I raised them? All I can say is that I raised them just the same
way as I raised all of my other chickens. Go through your flock, study
your birds all the time, every day in the year, every time you feed.
When you see a good bird, pick her out, bring her up, put her in a small
yard; watch her, study her, and see how near she comes up to the stand-
ard of perfection. When you get about eight or ten of that kind sorted
out, put them in a breeding pen to the best male bird that you can find,
one that is absolutely perfect, or as nearly so as possible, and you may
rest assured you are bound to raise good birds. Will they all be good,
you may ask; will they all be No. 1 birds? Remember, my reputation
is at stake in this book, and for that reason I will tell you, No! As the
old saying is, “There is always a black sheep in every family.” It is
the same in raising chickens, swine, horses, cattle or anything else. You
are always apt to find runts, no matter how fine they have been bred. It
is the same with the chickens, but if we breed from good stock we are
not apt to find very many runts. I find runts occasionally in my best
matings. Then again, I produce some fine birds once in a great while
in our cheaper matings. A bird that is owned by a breeder in the East
that I consider almost as good as ‘“‘Peggy,’”’ came out of a $10 setting of

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eggs that he purchased from me. She won at some of the largest shows
in the East last season. 7 ce

Now, these are things that happen once in awhile, but common
sense teaches us that like will produce like—ninety times in a hundred.
Otherwise, it would be time wasted for breeders of horses, cattle, poultry,
or anything else, to try and breed for perfection.

THE ABOVE IS ONE OF THE NICEST THINGS TO FEED OR WATER YOUR
CHICKENS IN. JUST USE ANY KIND OF VESSEL, AND MAKE A
SLATTED BOX TO SET OVER IT. THEY CANT WASTE ANY
FEED AND IT.ALWAYS KEEPS THE WATER CLEAN.

THREE POUND BROILERS AT TEN WEEKS OLD

Should | Start a Broiler Plant, an Egg Plant or a Fancy Plant?

Now, the above question has been asked me thousands of times.
All I can say is that I can tell you of what experience I have had, and
of a few cases that have been brought to my attention. Now, my honest
and candid opinion is, in fact, I know positively, that there is money,
and good money in all three of the above propositions, no matter which
one a person would take up, or if a person would take up all three of
them. All that it requires is the same as in any business—time and
attention.

Now, I know of one party in particular who is breeding Crystal
White Orpingtons. She sells her little chicks to the market as squab
broilers when they are from four to five weeks old. They bring her all
the way from twenty-five to thirty cents apiece. I have known this lady
to sell on an average of forty of these squab broilers per day. Then of
course there are a good many who raise for broilers only; keep the birds
and feed them for broiler purposes, and sell them when they become
eight to ten weeks old, at which time they weigh from two and one-half
_to three and one-half pounds.

But let me add right here, that if you do raise for market, it is only
a question of time until you become a fancier and breed for fancy only;
at least that is the history all over the world with breeders. They will
start in raising for market. In the first or second year some one will
come along and see a very good bird in their flock, because it is true if
you raise for market you will surely raise lots of birds, and where you

TWO AND ONE-HALF POUND BROILERS AT EIGHT WEEKS OLD

46 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

raise lots of birds there must be some few, more or less, exceptionally
good ones. You will immediately sell a bird for $25 or $50. Then is
when you begin to open your eyes. You will learn more about how to
breed your birds for fancy purposes, and it is only a question of a few
years until you are raising two or three hundred for show purposes in
the place of two or three thousand for market purposes, because the two
or three hundred will bring you more money, with less time, than the
two or three thousand did for market purposes.

It is the same way with the egg plant proposition. Now, of course,
if you figure out correctly and give it the proper amount of time, care
and attention, there is no question in the world but what there is good
money in an egg plant. You must remember it only costs from “ninety
cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents’? a year to keep a hen; it all de-
pends on where you are located, on account of the price of grain. You
can readily figure on getting twenty-five cents a dozen for your eggs in
almost every market in this country. Of course, there are some mar-
kets paying a good deal more, but I am figuring on the average price
of twenty-five cents a dozen. So you must remember that your hen only
has to lay from forty-eight to sixty eggs to pay for her feed for the
whole year. |

Take for illustration that you have good stock from a good egg lay-
ing strain; these birds ought to lay you the first year on an average of
one hundred and eighty eggs. The reason I say on an average of one
hundred and eighty eggs is because I can show you lots of my customers
who are breeding my birds that get over two hundred eggs, and some
of them as high as two hundred and fifty and two hundred and sixty
eggs from a hen in a year. But take, for an illustration, your hen will
lay one hundred and eighty eggs per year, that hen would earn $2.50
over and above her feed. In other words, one thousand hens would earn
$2,500.00 in one year over and above the cost of their feed. Now, how
many men would it take to take care of one thousand hens? Let me say
right here, if you start in the poultry business in a small way, say, with
a pen of good birds, or two or three settings of eggs, the third year
you can very easily have one thousand hens—good hens—after culling
the culls, raised with your own hands. Now by the time you have raised
one thousand good hens yourself, after setling off the culls to the market,
by that time you will have experience enough that you can handle one
thousand hens just as easily as anything in the
world.

But the egg plants are like the broiler
plants. I coyld cite you to hundreds, yes, per-
haps thousands, of breeders right here in this
country, who started in for broiler or egg pro-
duction, and they are today the most noted
fanciers we have in our show rooms, because
I want to say right here, that no matter which
you breed for, you. are bound to breed some
extra good, choice birds, and just as soon as

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you sell one single bird for $50 or $100, right then and there you are going
to give your birds more attention. You are going to pick out the best ones;
you are going to pick out the ones that are bred the most perfect and
the most true, and mate them up separately. Before you know it you
will be in the fancy business, because there is no question in the world
but that it is the most profitable in the whole lot in my way of looking
at it, because you must remember that birds to sell for fancy and to sell
for good, big prices, they must be show winners, and they will never
be show winners unless they are bred perfect, and whenever they are
bred perfect, then, of course, you have good birds. So do not think for
one minute that chickens that are bred for show purposes are no good
for broiler purposes or for egg production. That is a mistake, because
a chicken that wins in a show room must be perfect, and whenever they
are perfect, then of course you have good stock to breed from.

Just stop to think—I get $30.00 for fifteen eggs. The farmer would
have to sell one hundred (100) dozen eggs at thirty cents a dozen be-
fore he would get $30.00. Isn’t that conclusive evidence that it pays
to raise good stock? That has been my experience in going along, and
also in watching others in the broiler business, in the egg plant business
and in the fancy business.

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On the Opposite Page I Show a Drawing of My Fireless Brooder,
or Brooder With Heat in It, or Outdoor Brooder, or In-
door Brooder, Just Whichever You May
Want to Call It.

The first one I ever built cost me thirty-five cents for the window
sash, thirty cents for the two-inch galvanized pipe and elbows and twenty
cents for the lamp, making eighty-five cents all told. The balance of
the brooder was built out of old boxes. Now, when I have these brood-
ers indoors in the brooder house, in the winter time, I do not use any
heat after the first few days, and I take the window sash out and in
place of it I use a frame of the same size as the window sash with a
one-inch mesh poultry wire tacked over it to keep the chicks from jump-
ing out. I also use this poultry screen in the brooder in place of glass
in April, May and June when the weather is nice, when I have the brooder
sitting cout of doors. In place of using a giass chimney on the lamp,
which is always breaking, I just take a baking powder can or a piece
of tin and make a chimney to fit the lamp, and make it small at the top
so that I can insert it into the two-inch pipe that goes through the
brooder. When putting the tubing in your brooder always see that the
outlet is a little higher than the inlet; otherwise the heat will not cir-
culate properly and your lamp might smoke. In the hover part of the
brooder I have a board floor covered with chaff or cut alfalfa, or cut
clover. This we clean twice a week. Always remember cleanness is
the road to success in the poultry business, and practice makes perfect,
and experience is the best teacher of all. This brooder will hold fifty
chicks for the first four or five days. Then reduce it to twenty-five, and
when they become three or four weeks old you ought not to keep more
. than from fourteen to sixteen in the brooder; the fewer the better, as
you will never make a success if you try to crowd your chicks; give
them room, give them a chance to grow.

I know of a lady who bought a setting of eggs from me one winter.
She put them under a hen and hatched twelve chicks. A dog killed the
hen the first day. The lady took the chicks, put them in a basket and
put a woolen rag over them at night time, and raised every one of them.
Was it a woolen blanket and basket that she used for the brooder that
raised them? No. It was the care she gave them. I do not care what
kind of a brooder or incubator or system you use, if you do not give your
chicks the care they should have, you wil! never succeed.

Good stock is the first thing; cleanness and the proper amount of
care is the next thing, and that is the road to success in the poultry
business.

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On the Opposite Page is a Drawing of My Kind of a Poultry
House.

Doctors say the best remedy for the human being is fresh air and
plenty of it. There are more and more people who are adopting the
system of sleeping out of doors every day. About twelve years ago I
adopted the same principle with my chickens, and I find that my chickens
are always healthy—never sick—no such thing as roup or sick birds
exist on my farm, and my chickens are always healthy and stout. Oth-
erwise they could not stand the strain of shelling out the eggs the way
they do. Now, I build these houses nine by eighteen feet each. In that
way I can always use eighteen-foot lumber without cutting to waste, and
as fast as your business grows you can always add to it. You can make
them from nine feet long up to nine hundred feet long, or as long as
you like. You can use a dirt floor, providing your ground lies high and
dry. Otherwise I would advise putting a board floor in them, but I pre-
fer a dirt floor. But you have to keep your birds away from moist,
damp ground if you expect them to do well. Moisture and dampness
will bring on sickness quicker than anything I know of. I also clean the
dropping boards in my hen houses daily; whitewash them twice a year
—spring and fall. Then I dust my hens every four weeks with lice pow-
der, because a lousy hen or an over-fat hen will not lay enough eggs to
pay for her feed.

Going back to the poultry house, the open space in the front and
the partitions are covered with two-inch mesh poultry wire. The drop
curtains are made out of ordinary unbleached muslin. We never drop
these curtains only on very cold nights or bitter cold days. The drop
curtain that drops against the roost we never use until the thermometer

52 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

registers way below freezing. The trap nests and feed boxes and drink- .
ing fountains can be placed in the houses anywhere where it is most con-
venient. I cover the roof with some good roofing paper and also the
outside of the north wall. Of course all of my houses face the south.
If you haven’t a south front, face them east, but never face your house
to the north.

A PEN OF CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS
KELLERSTRASS FARM KANSAS CITY MO..

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LLERSTRASS FARM ISANSAS CITY MO..

THEY DO WELL IN ANY CLIMATE

How to Keep Eggs Fresh.

Now, there are hundreds of different ways—with lime water, and a
whole lot of other different ways of how to keep eggs fresh. But, like
everything else in this book, I am only going to tell you just how I keep
mine fresh.

After the first of July, or along abcut the first of July, when the
breeding season is over with, I generally separate my males and females.
Then the eggs are infertile that the hens lay from that on, and all the
eggs that I get off of my farm from the first of July until about the middle
of September or the first of October, when the breeding season starts
again, I simply take an old whiskey barrel and put bran in it and I set
the eggs in there with the sharp end down, the big end up, and I put in
a layer of eggs and a layer of bran, and another layer of eggs and another
layer of bran, and keep that up until the barrel is full. When the barrel
-is full, I take some paper and put this paper over the top of the barrel,
and I glue it on there tight. I put a lot of glue or paste around the top
of the barrel and press this paper down so as to make it perfectly air-
tight, and then, to make sure, I put two or three more layers on top and
put glue around and then tie a string around it so that I am sure it is
air tight.

- Along about Christmas time, or New Years, we open these barrels
and put these eggs in cases and take them to town, and they bring us
from forty-five to sixty cents per dozen. Now I have done this for years
and years, with the exception of the last two years, I have not taken
them to town. I have four or five grocerymen who come out here and
offer me from 214 to 414 cents per dozen more for my eggs than they have
to pay for storage eggs down town, which goes to show that my eggs
must have been better than cold storage eggs, for you can rest assured that
they would not be fighting and competing and paying me from 214 to 41%
cents per dozen more for my eggs than they do for cold storage eggs if
they were not worth it.

54 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

As I said before, you will find lots of good ways to preserve eggs.
You will find lots of recipes in poultry journals, but the above is my way
of preserving eggs.

Should I Supply Moisture?

By all means, use moisture. There are some parts of Texas and Col-
orado where they have to sprinkle their eggs almost daily during incuba-
tion or they would never hatch a chick. We keep water in tin pans in
the bottom of our incubators at all times. You may ask “How much?”
That all depends upon how dry a climate you live in, but you cannot use
too much.

Take for illustration again the hen that steals her nest out in the
weeds in the spring of the year during the rainy season when the grass
is wet almost continually, common sense teaches us and we know that
she nearly always brings out a good hatch.

Should I Hatch With a Hen or With an Incubator?

If you haven’t had any experience with an incubator, better try the
old-fashioned way to start with and use the hen. You can always buy a
broody hen from some of your neighbors if you haven’t one. But be sure
and let her set for two or three days before you place the eggs under her,
so as to make sure that she has settled down and has gotten over her
nervous spell, and you can rest assured she will do her duty.

But if you have any knowledge at all about incubators, it is all right
to use the incubator, providing you follow the instructions of the maker
of your incubator, because if you intend to raise a large number of chickens
you will have to use the incubator sooner or later, for it is impossible to
get enough setting hens just when a person wants to use them.

How to Keep Eggs for Hatching.

Some claim that eggs should be set the same day they are laid. Now
that is all wrong, and common sense will teach us better. The hen that
steals her nest out in the weeds or under the woodpile lays an egg a day
for sixteen or seventeen days, and sometimes more, before she starts to
set on them, and invariably when the hatch comes off she will bring out
fourteen or fifteen chicks. That is all the evidence we need. We always
let our eggs cool and set at least twenty-four to thirty hours before we put
them into the incubator or under the hen.

I shipped eggs to a customer of mine ’way up to the midnight sun to
Skagway, Alaska, and on account of them getting on the wrong steamer
and having to bring them back to San Francisco, they were on their road
seven weeks. Now just think of it—seven weeks—and they hatched over
seventy per cent.

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As I have told you all through this book, this book is written by a
man who has had actual experience, and it is not theory by a person wko
perhaps never raised a chicken, or may be raising a few in his back yara.
You will find the man’s name and his letter in my mating list who hatched
the eggs in Skagway, Alaska. Now, if you want to keep your eggs for any
length of time for hatching purposes, just place them on end in the
regular ordinary egg case. Turn the egg case upside down once every
twenty-four hours, and you can rest assured that they will hatch just as
well in two or three weeks as they will the first few days.

Remember, I am speaking from experience. I have shipped stock
and eggs to almost every known place in this whole world.

Fertility for Breeding Purposes. |

A hen will lay just as many eggs without being with the male bird,
and an infertile egg will keep fresh a great deal longer than a fertile egg.

When mating up for breeding purposes I never use the first four or
six eggs that the hen lays. I generally wait until after the eighth or tenth
ege before I use them for hatching. Some breeders claim that the eggs
will be fertile on the second or third day. Now that is impossible; at least
I have found it so.

How to Select the Laying Hen.

Now, the way I select the laying hen is by her trap nest record, as
I use trap nests in all of my breeding houses, and of course I always breed
from the ones that have the biggest record. This is the way I established
my big egg-producers. But for the ordinary person who does not use trap
nests and only has a few chickens, just watch the hen that goes on the roost
first in the evening. Go right in the hen house and chop her head off
and eat her for your Sunday dinner. Another good and absolutely sure
test is after the hens have all gone to roost, take a lantern and go into
the hen house and feel of the hen’s craw. The one that has a good, big,
full craw you can rest assured has some egg material and is a good egg-
producer and is a valuable hen and a hen you want to breed from. But
the one that has a craw about the size of a marble—just use her for your
Sunday dinner—you will never regret it.

There are lots of tests, but I stake my reputation on the above, and
you can rest assured that I have had some experience in raising egg-pro-
ducers.

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START WITH GOOD STOGK-—IT PAYS

Roup, Gapes, Chicken Pex and Scaly Leg.

Remove the filth, keep your chicken house on dry ground, and you
will not be bothered with the above diseases. But sometimes chickens will
catch the roup while in transit shipping them to and from the shows. The
chickens may be put into an express car, and in that car there are a lot
of roupy, mongrel chickens being shipped to the market, and the first
thing you know your chickens have a case of roup. If so, just keep them
in a good, dry, clean, hen house and swab their throats out three or four
times a week by dipping a feather in some coal oil, and let them have
plenty of fresh air and your roup or gapes will disappear.

It also happens quite often that chickens will catch chicken pox while
in transit and being placed alongside of a shipment of common market
chickens. If so, just wash their comb and wattles good with warm water
and apply carbolated vaseline three or four times a week and your chicken
pox will disappear.

In case of scaly leg, just take equal parts of coal oil and sweet oil,
dip the bird’s legs into this mixture three or four times a week, and your
scaly legs will disappear.

All of the above I know to be positive facts by actual experience.

OF RAISING POULTRY. 57

Lice and Mites and How to Keep Your Chickens Looking Nice
and Clean.

I do not have any lice or mites on my farm, and if you ever visit my
farm, you are at liberty to examine any or all of my five to six thousand
birds, and you will find out that I am telling you the truth. Why? Because
we dust all of our hens about once a month, and in that way they never
get started.

THE ABOVE SHOWS HOW WE DUST
OUR CHICKENS:

Remember, a lousy hen will never lay enough eggs to pay for her
feed. What do I use for dusting? I use five pounds of sulphur and five
pounds of naphthaline mixed with a wheelbarrow full of common road

dust; just dust gathered in the road.

But now I am going to give you a secret that is worth more than the
price of this book. If you raise white chickens, in the place of using road
dust, use flour. I raise nothing but white chickens, and I mix common
flour with the sulphur and naphthaline, and that is why people when visit-
ing my farm always say, ““Oh, my! your chickens look so nice and clean and
white.

Remember, there is nothing nicer than a flock of clean, nice, pure
white chickens.

Breaking Up Broody Hens.

Some breeders starve them, some dip them in water, and Lord knows
what all they do do to them.

Now, when we go around in the evening to shut the hen house doors,
we look in the nest. If there is a hen in the nest, ninety-nine chances in
a hundred, she is broody. We have a common market chicken coop hanging
in a tree, bottom side up so that the slats are on the bottom. We place

58 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

her in there for twenty-four to thirty-six hours and she is ready to go
back to work again. You understand she has to stand on these slats all
the time, the wind blowing up through her fluff feathers, and she has no
place to sit down. She will soon get over her broodiness.

Now, I keep fresh water and feed in cups for them all of the time
while in this coop, and in that way I know that I am not injuring the hen.
Some may have better ways, but the above is my way.

Sprouted Oats, or Feed for Ten or Fifteen Cenis a Bushel, as Some

Call It.

Now, this is one of the greatest egg-producers or food there is for
winter egg production, because it gives the birds green food in winter
time, which they must have in order to do well, and especially the male
bird for fertility. Now, I have seven boxes, each two feet wide, five feet
long, and four inches deep. I take a bushel of oats, put them in a tub
in the evening, your warm water over them; that is, water warm enough
so that the chill is taken off. I let them soak until morning; then I pour
them in the above named boxes and lay a wet sack over them; every day
I stir them up with my hand and take the sprinkling can and soak the sack
good and heavy with water. In seven days it is sprouted long enough
to feed. The reason I have seven of these boxes is
because it gives me one for every day in the week.
I feed one a day and start a new one every day. A
bushel of sprouted oats is enough for about twelve
hundred laying hens; at least that is the way I feed
it. Of course others may feed differently, but there
is one thing sure, no one has ever been able to beat
my egg records. That is, no breeder has ever been
able to get as much money out of eggs per hen as I
have. If there has, I would be thankful if some poultry OE would
make mention of it.

How to Keep Male Birds From Fighting.

Here is a secret worth one hundred times the price of this book:
Several years ago, in the early part of July, when I broke up my
breeding pens and separated my males and females, I turned all the male
birds out together in one big yard to prepare them for their molting
season. They got to fighting and one of my best male birds got killed; in
fact, a bird that I had refused three hundred and fifty dollars for. I had
trimmed all their spurs before putting them into this yard, but there
seemed to be one bird in the yard that was the champion over all the rest.
I got angry and went in and caught him, took my pocket knife and cut
the end off of his beak. There was peace in that yard from then on. That
taught me a new trick, and I have used that principle ever since, and I
do not have any more bloody birds with torn combs. Just find out the
fighter and cut off the point of his beak; just the little hard part. Be

OF RAISING POULTRY. 59
careful not to cut too deep so as to make it bleed or injure the bird. If

properly done it will not harm the bird any more than to trim the point
of your finger nail. This one thing has saved me many a good male bird.

Trap Nests.

A good many people asked me what kind of trap nests I use. Well,
I use about eight or ten different makes and find them all good. Any of

THE ABOVE SHOWS ONE OF OUR TRAP NESTS,
MADE OUT OF AN EMPTY ORANGE BOX.

the well advertised trap nests you read about in the poultry journals are
good. Anything that will trap the hen will answer the purpose. I would
not think of keeping chickens without trap nests, as it is the only way
_of telling which hen lays and which hen to breed from. Always breed
from the biggest layers.

60 } THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

THE ABOVE ARE THE TYPE OF MALE BIRDS THAT I USE IN MY BREEDING
PENS. THEY PRODUCE SHOW WINNERS AS WELL AS BIG EGG
LAYERS AND BROILERS.

OF RAISING: POULTRY. 61

TESTIMONIALS

ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES I publish a few testimonials

from some of my customers. I do this just to give you an idea
as to my reputation as a breeder. As I have told you all through
this book, I AM A BREEDER; I RAISE CHICKENS, and this
book was written by me from actual experience, and my only
object in publishing these testimonials is to show you that I do
know something about the chicken business. If interested, I will
gladly furnish you the name and address of any one of the

parties.

SS

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Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Congratulating you on securing
so distinguished a customer as Madame Pader-
ewski.

LEONARD W. LOTT,

Editor American Fancier, New York City.

May 12, 1908.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I herewith enclose you affidavit:
also trap nest record of the Kellerstrass Strain
Crystal White Orpington hen, register No. 508,
that laid two hundred and sixty-three (263)
eggs in 272 days.

(Signed) P. J. HARLLEE,
Chattahoochee, Gda.,
August 8, 1909.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Congratulations on the splendid
showing you have made by selling $68.00 worth
of eggs per hen from thirty hens in one sea-

Son.
G. M. CURTIS,

Editor Reliable Poultry Journal,
Quincy, Ill.

No hen in the world has won so many ribbons
or is more royally treated than the Crystal
White Orpington “PEG,’ owned by Hrnest Kel-
lerstrass, Poultry Fancier, of Kansas City, Mo.

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT.
March 8, 1908.

My Dear Mr. Kellerstrass:—I have sixteen
of your hens that average two hundred and
thirty-one (231) eggs per bird in twelve months.

LAWRENCE JACKSON,
Pittsburg, Pa.,
July 19, 1909.

KX

The sinuplest sort of a thing—common black
dirt—has solved the problem of eradicating a
chicken disease which cost thirty million chicks’
lives annually, a disease which scientists of
the National and State Hxperimental Stations
have been studying without success for ten
years.

arnest Kellerstrass, the Kansas City Poultry
Fancier, found the secret.

ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.
May 23, 1909.

The large crowds that thronged the Buffalo
Show came especially to see the wonderful
hen “Peggy” and the Kellerstrass exhibit.

POULTRY ITEM,
Sellersville, Pa.,
March, 1909.

The remarkable hen “Peggy” is owned by
Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass of Kansas City, Mo.
She has traveled all over the globe capturing
prizes. Mr. Kellerstrass has forty-cight hun-
dred chickens of this family and “Peggy” is
the most perfect. He controls the output of
perfect Orpington hens.

SUNDAY CHICAGO AMERICAN.
March 19, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass is now easily one of the
leading and most successful breeders in Amer-
ica, and perhaps during the past two or three
years raised more good prize-winning birds
on his farm, devoted exclusively to White Or-
pingtons, tnan any other lreed on this con-
tinent. POULTRY SUCCESS,

Springfield, Ohio.
February, 1909.

The White Orpingtons began their real his-
tory in the American fancy when Mr. Ernest
Kellerstrass took them wp. Mr. Kellerstrass
has done for this variety and for the breed of
Orpingtons in general, what no man has ever
accomplished for any other breed.

AMERICAN POULTRY JOURNAL,

Chicago, Ill.

62 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

It was a rare treat to spend a day in Sep-
tember at the Kellerstrass Farm, where were
originated the Crystal White Orpingtons, now
famous the world over. Mr. Kellerstrass him-
self does the work of a half dozen expert
poultrymen and does it right. Mr. Kellerstrass
exvhibited upwards of $25,000 worth of birds at
the Chicago Show.

WESTERN POULTRY JOURNAL.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

No one thing has ever come into the poultry
shows of the United States that has attracted
so much attention as ‘Peggy,’ the $10,000
beauty hen, and the Kellerstrass exhibit that
accompanies her. Mr. Kellerstrass has taken
the chicken business out of the kindergarten
class and has done more to encourage the
poultry business than any ten breeders in the
United States combined. The Kellerstrass Farm

FINEST HEN IN THE WORLD—PRIZE
WINNING HEN—SCORES 9734
POINTS.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass of Kansas City, Mo.,
is the owner of the most perfect fowl in the
world, according to the National Poultry Asso-
ciation of America.

NEW YORK HERALD,
March 15, 1908.

“Peggy,” the $10,000 hen owned bu the Kel-
lerstrass Farm, was viewed by over half a
million people around the southern circuit of
State fairs, which included Nashville, Mem-
phis, Birmington and Atlanta.

SOUTHERN POULTRY MAGAZINE,
Nashville, Tenn.,
December, 1908.

“BROOD 2 NURSERY ees ON THE KELLERSTRASS FARM,RF D4 KANSAS CITY,
MO. WHERE OVER 6000 CRYSTALS WHITE ORPINGTONS WERE RAISED LAST
SHASON: ITS ONE OF = WORLDS GREATEST POULTRY FLANTS

won over ninety per cent of all premiums of-
fered. We doubt if any breeder in the world
ever sold stock or eggs that produced as many
winnings in one season in so many parts of
the country as the Kellerstrass Farm did in
1908. The Inland Poultry Journal takes its
hat off to men of this kind.

JUDGH THEO. HUGHES,
Editor Inland Poultry Journal,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Mr. Kellerstrass owns a farm of one hundred
and forty acres just outside of Kansas City,
where he raises thousands of Crystal White
Orpingtons.

THE INDUSTRIOUS HEN,
Knoxville, Tenn.,
September, 1908.

In all my dealings since I started to keep
poultry I have found one dealer who I feel safe
in saying can be depended upon for a strictly
square, honest man.

C. P. HINDS,
In the American Poultry Advocate,
Syracuse, N. Y., June, 1909.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Your kind advice about how to
get fertility has saved me a lot of money.
Nearly every egg is fertile now and practically
every pullet laying.

RALPH EH. WOODS,

Shelton, Neb.,
April 22, 1909.

OF RAISING

A model at which breeders aim—the Crystal
White Orpingtons—the most noted chickens in
the world today, originated by Ernest Keller-
- strass, Kansas City, Mo., U. 8S. A., are on ex-
hibition here at the poultry show and they
won the first prize. They are a model at which
breeders aim.

HONOLULU, HAWAII, STAR,
January 10, 1908.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Lawrence Jack-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pullet and hen at
Cleveland Poultry Show, 1909.

J. I. CONKEY, Secy.

_ THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. P. Knight
won First Prize on Kellerstras Strain “Crystal”
White Orpington pullet at Utica, N. Y., Show,
1908.

R. E. BRIGGS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Emma Comp-
ton won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’? White Orpington yen at Kansas City,
Mo., Poultry Show, 1909.

iPS 12h IDG IEIRDIS INAGUE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That W. D. Barrett
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel at Fremont, Neb.,
Show, 1908. C. W. MULLOY, Secy.

PHIS [IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs. L. C. Cat-
lett won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal”? White Orpington hen and pen at
Baltimore, Md., Poultry Show, 1909

G. O. BROWN, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Charles Brock-
hoff won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal’ White Orpington pullet and pen at
Concordia, Mo., Poultry Show, 1908.

JOHN F. BRUNS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Geo. Arm-
knecht won First Prize on SKellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet
at Donnellson, Ia., Show, 1908.

CHRIS. HAFFNER, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That D. Y. Coriell
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Portsmouth, Ohio, Poultry Show, 1908.

F. H. SHOENBERGHER, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That O. F. Dieffen-
bacher won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet
at Olarion, Pa., Fair, 1908.

S. S. LAUGHLIN, Secy.

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Andrew Frantz
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys—

tal’ White Orpington pullet at Summit County
Fair, 1908, Akron, Ohio.

H. C. MILLER, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs. R. M.
Good won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet
at Humeston, Ia., Show, 1908.

MRS. S. L. ROBINSON, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Orville NS.
Greenwood won First Prize on Kellerstrass
Strain “Orystal’ White Orpington cockerel at
Woonsocket, R. I., Show, 1908.

H. W. COOK, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Orville XS.
Greenwood won First Prize on Kellerstrass
Strain “Crystal’ White Orpington pullet at
Freeport, Me., Show, 1908.

GHO. P. COFFIN, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Martha Boots
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet and cockerel at
Darlington, Ind., Show 1908.

FRED KELLEY, Secy.

THIS IS TO. CERTIFY, That Dr. A. W.
Grubbel won First Prize on iKellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’? White Orpington at Concordia, Mo.,
Poultry Show, 1908.

JOHN F. BRUNS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, Tnat Mary L. Haber-
show won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pullet at Herkimer,
N. Y., Show, 1909.

CHAS. T. GLOO, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That P. J. Harllee
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pen, pullet and cockerel
at Augusta, Ga., Show, 1908.

W. A. HERMAN, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That P. J. Harllee
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain ‘“Crys-
tal’? White Orpington pen, cockerel and pullet
at Georgia State Show, at Atlanta, 1908.

ALF. BERTHUG, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Albert F. Jor-
dan won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pullet, cockerel and
pen at Clinton, Ia., Show, 1908.

KARL L. JOHNSTONE, Secy.

64 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. L. Jack-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal’ White Orpington hen at Chicago

Show, 1908. H. J.-W. DIETZ, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Wirt A. Cot-
tingham won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pullet, cockerel and
pen at Peoria, Ill., Show, 1908.

DHWEHY A. SHELLEY, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. P. Knight
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’? White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Oswego, N. Y., Show, 1908. L

I. N. GAYMONDS, Secy.

THIS IS TO OCHERTIFY, That Henry Lemons
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel, pullet and pen
at Girard, Ill., Show, 1908.

H. OC. RATHGHBER, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That Mrs. C. L.
Moore won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’?’ White Orpington pen at Newport,
Pa., Show, 1908.

J. C. F. STHPHENSON, Secy.

THIS [8S TO CERTIFY, That J. C. Mertens
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet and cock at St.
Lowis, Mo., Show, 1908.

LW. OBRCOLA. Séecy:

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. P. Knight
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’? White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Binghamton, N. Y., Show, 1908.

HENRY SULART, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That J. C. Mertens
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet and cock at Mis-
souri State Show, T'renton, 1908.

T. H. QUISHNBERRY, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That S. H. Gibbs
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Asheville, N. C., Poultry Show, 1908.

MRS. C. B. CAMPBELL, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That J. M. Phillips
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’? White Orpington cockerel, pullet and pen
at Hillsboro, La., Show, 1908.

W. G. HSCOTT, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That A. M. Robert-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’? White Orpington putlet and cockerel
at Lowell, Ind., Show, 1909.

FRANK MALOY, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That C. H. Robin-
son wen First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal”? White Orpingion cockerel at An-
trim, N. H., Show, 1908.

F. GRIMES, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Clara Smith
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet at DeWitt County
Poultry Show, Weldon, Iil., 1908.

DR. A. V. FOOTE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That FE. B. Stephen-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal’ White Orpington pullet and cockerel
at Salem, Ind., Poultry Show, 1908.

F. J. HHACOCK, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That Mrs. F. A.
Wileoxson won First Prize on Kellerstrass
Strain “Crystal”? White Orpington cockerel and
pullet at Ashley, Ohio, Show, 1908.

C. H. LONGWEHLL, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. L. Jack-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpingten pullet and cockerel
at Mcikeesport, Pa., Poultry Show, 1908.

B. A. MOORE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs. F. A. Wil-
coxson won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“<Orystal’? White Orpington cockerel and pullet
at Carey, Ohio, Show, 1908.

ED. CAMPBELL, JR., Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Nerge Clark
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’? White Orpington cockerel, cock, hen and
pullet at Bowling Green, Ky., Poultry Show,
1908.

MRS. SCOTT DONALDSON, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That J. S. Brady
won First Prize on Kellersivass Strain ““Crys-
tal’? White Orpington hen, cockerel and pullet
at Appollo, Pa., Show, 1908.

GHO. L. RUDOLF, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Nerge Clark
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pen, hen and cock at
Southern Kentucky Poultry Show, 1909.

J. T. WATKINS, Secy.

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POULTRY. 65

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs..W. L.
Cobine won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’’ White Orpington cockerel and hen
at Otsego County, N. Y., Poultry Show, 1908.

A. J. RELYHA, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs. L. OC. Cat-
lett won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’’. White Orpington pen at Richmond,
Va., Show, 1908. ig

W. er. TODD, Scey.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That A. Odell won
First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orystal’
White Orpington cockerel, pullet and hen at
Medford, Okla., Show, 1908.

C. L. BICKHRDIKE, Secy.

THIS IS-TO CERTIFY, That John F. Nichol—
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pen, pullet, cock-
erel, hen and cock at Stillwater, Okla., Show,

1909 ROBERT A. LOWNY, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That W. D. Barrett
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’? White Orpington pen at Omaha, Neb.,
Show, 1908.

F. C. AHLQUINST, . Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Martha Boots
won First Prize on. Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’? White Orpington cockerei and pullet at
Lafayette, Ind., Fair, 1908.

C. W. TRAVIS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Willie Olson
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “COrys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at the
Upper lowa Poultry Show, Mason City, 1908.

JOHN D. REELHR, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That J. M. Phillips
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington hen, pen and pullet at
Shreveport, La., Show, 1908.

LOUIS M. BRIEGGERHOFF., Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That D. W. Shelley
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at:
Petersburg, Ill., Show, 1908.

HARRY C. LEVERING, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That L. K. Thomp-
son won First Prize on MIKellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet
at Bureau County Show, Princeton, Ill., 1908.

A. H. ASCHE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Mrs. F. A. Wil-
corson won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal”? White Orpington pen at Concordia,
Mo., Fair, 1908.

E. K. SMITH, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Martha Boots
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Crawfordsville, Ind., Fair, 1908.

JESSE W. CANINE, Secy.

66 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That Mrs. Wm. Irm-
inger won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington cockerel at Clay
County Poultry Show, 1908.

R. L. HARBAUGH, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Dr. A. W.
Gruebbel won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington pen at Concordia,
Mo., Fair, 1908.

ARTH KROENCKE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That C. L. Hobson
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pen, cockerel and pullet
at Whitesville, Mfo., Poultry Show, 1908.

J. F. CASE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Martha Boots
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel, pullet and pen
at Orawfordsville, Ind., Poultry Show, 1909.

J. T. NORRIS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHERTIFY, That Mrs. MW. SWS.
Campbell won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’: White Orpington hen and cock, at
Bigin, Ill., Show, 1908.

W. W. BRITTON, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRIIFY, That J. M. Phillips
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet, cockerel, hen and
pen at Gibsland, La., Show, 1908.

GLEN FLEMING, NSecy.

IEHOS IES WO) CHBLE TILING. Spahi wd, Whe JEONG DS
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington pen, cockerel, hen and
pullet at Monroe, La., Show, 1908.

CH. HAC LG Secy:

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY,\That J. M. Phillips
won Irirst Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington cock, cockerel, hen, pullet
and pen at Minden, La., Show, 1908.

HH. J. FALKNER, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That D. W. Shelley
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Crys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet at Buffalo Hart,
dil., Show, 1908.

O. A. PHILLIPS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That EHdward Tay-
for won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’ White Orpington. cockerel and pen
at Weldon, Jil., Poultry Show, 1908.

A. V. FOOTH, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That OC. L. Wilder
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
talv’ White Orpington cockerel and pullet at
Boone, Ia., Fair, 1908.

A. M. BURNSIDE, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Charles Adams
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington hen and cock at Denison,
Ia., Show, 1908. i

C. F. CASSADAY, Secy.

THIS IS TO CHRTIFY, That Mrs. L. OC. Cat-
lett won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal” White Orpington hen, cockerel and
pullet at Mathew Fair, 1908.

PERCIVAL HICKS, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That John F. Nichol-
son won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain
“Orystal’’ White Orpington pen, hen, cock,
cockerel and pullet at Payne County, Okla.,
Fair, 1908.

JOHN W. ALLISON, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That Edward Sallec
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington pullet and cockerel at
Callaway County Poultry Show, 1909, Fulton,

Mo. W. H. HUGGETT, Secy.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That John Bixler
won First Prize on Kellerstrass Strain “Orys-
tal’ White Orpington cockerel at Wabash Val.
ley Poultry Show, Cynthiana, ind., 1909.

HENRY T. WILLIAMS, Secy.

FIFTEEN CHICKS FROM FIFTEEN
EGGS.
Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo. |

Dear Sir:—I write to let you know the won.
derful hatch I had from. the setting of egys
I bought from you on the 12th of April last.
Well, sir, I GOT FIFTEEN CHICKS OUT OF
THE FIFTEEN HGGS, and have fourteen lv-
ing today, the 29th, and they are. fine.

I have bought lots of eggs from the different
people, but I must say that you are THE
MOST HONEST IN ALL THE LOT.

HT. As,
Mystic, Iowa, 5-29-08.

STILL HAVE TWENTY-ONE LEFT.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—As I got two settings of eggs
from you this spring, I thought I would let
you know about them. Out of one setting I
had ELEVEN and out of the other TWELVE
little chicks. It is about two months since
they were hatched, and I STiLL HAVH
TWENTY-ONE LEFT. One of the others was
killed by accident. I think that was good for
shipping so far. I am well pleased with them.
I hope I can raise the rest now.

Respectfully yours,
1B 130.0
Dodge, Neb., 6-11-08.

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POULTRY. 67

TWELVE CHICKS, AS FINE AS CAN
BE.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—Received the Orpington eggs
in due time and set them under two hens.
From the setting of fifteen we got TWELVE
LITTLE CHICKS AS FINE AS CAN BE, all
in good condition, and we are well pleased with
the hatch.

Thanking you for past favors, I remain

Yours truly,
Ih, AOD BOT Ele
Lyons, Kans., 6-9-08.

FOURTEEN HATCHED; DOING FINE.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I would have had FOURTEEN
of your Crystal White Orpingtons if the rats
had not killed one of them. THEY ARE DO-
ING FINE. I hope I can raise them. How
do you sell eggs in August and September?

Yours truly,
MRS. G. K.
Donnellson, Iowa, 6-14-08.

FIFTEEN HATCHED.
Kellerstrass Poultry Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—We received the two_ settings
of eggs O. K., and placed them under two
hens. One hen hatched out FIFTEEN CHICKS,
and the’ other HATCHED ELEVEN. There
were only four infertile eggs in the thirty.

Respectfully. yours,
Jee
Greenwich, Conn., 5-15-08.

EVERY ONE OF THE FIFTEEN
HATCHED.
Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The setting of eggs I got from
you when I was in Kansas City hatched out
this week, Wednesday, and to my delight and
Surprise EVERY ONE OF THE FIFTHEN
HATCHED. THEY ARE A FINE BUNCH.
The weather for the past three weeks has
‘been as bad as possibly could be for hens
setting, but my sister took the best care of the
hen all the time, with good results. and I feel
proud of the lot of chicks.

Yours truly,
in IBS Eee
Burlington, Iowa, 6-5-08.

TWELVE CHICKS HATCHED.
Ernest Kellerstrass, Esq.,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I take pleasure in informing you
that the last setting of eggs you sent me I
set under a hen and she hatched TWELVE
OHICKS. Every fertile egg hatched. THHY
ARE ONE WEEK OLD TODAY AND ALL
STRONG AND HEARTY. THEY ARE A NICE
FLOCK FOR ONE HEN AND ARE ADMIRED
BY EVERYONE WHO HAS SHEN THEM,

Yours truly,
Wks 1B, dos

Lyons, Iowa, 7-28-08.

FORTY-FIVE CHICKS DOING FINELY.
Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I want to write you about our
wonderful good hatch. Out of the sixty eggs
we hatched forty-five chicks. We- hatched
eight chicks out of the choice setting; NINE
OUT OF ONE SETTING; FIFTEEN OUT OF
ONH, AND THIRTEEN OUT OF ONE.

The chicks are beautiful and doing nicely.
We are very proud of them, and everybody in
the neighbourhood has been to see them.

Wishing you a successful season. I am

Yours sincerely,
i. Ge:
Randolph, Mo., 4-22-08

WENT FIVE THOUSAND MiLES UP
TO THE LAND OF THE ‘“MID-
NIGHT SUN” AND STILL
THEY HATCHED.

The Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I thought I would drop you a
few lines to let you know what luck I had
with the setting of eggs I got from you. Well,
we had bad luck, but through no fault of
yours; to start with, one egg came broken,
and then after putting them wnder the hen,
she broke three, and three eggs were not fer-
tile. So we have eight chicks, and they are
doing fine; in fact, we have the first White
Orpingtons in SKAGWAY, ALASKA.

So hoping to do better next time, and if
these turn out all right, you may look for an
order next spring, I remain

Yours truly,
Wee ss
Skagway, Alaska, 6-17-08.

TWENTY-ONE HEALTHY CHICKS.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I bought fram you two settings
of eggs; one from Pen No. 28 and one from
Pen No. 8. From Pen 28 I hatched THN
CHICKS; tested on the fourteenth day; tested
out two infertile eggs; one was broken during
hatch and two did not hatch. From Pen No.
8 I HATCHED ELEVEN CHICKS; tested out
two infertile eggs and two did not hatch. The
chicks are four weeks old and I have lost but
one chick from Pen No. 8. I have twenty fine
healthy chicks from the two pens. I think I
have done pretty well raising them so far.

Yours respectfully,
WHS. Wha Ti
Logansport, Ind., 6-16-08.

FOURTEEN OUT OF FIFTEEN ON
TIME.

Kcellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—Last evening, “on time,’ I
found FOURTEEN (14) CHICKS FROM THE
FIFTEEN EGGS PURCHASED FROM YOU.
The fifteenth egg was not fertile; otherwise
would have had fifteen White Orpingtons.

Yours truly,
Desi He,
South Pasadena, Cal., June 15, 1908

68 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

HATCHED ELEVEN STRONG CHICKS.

Mr. H. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I hatched Monday, July 18th,
ELEVEN STRONG CHICKS, FINE AS A PIN.
IT received those eggs, before I got your letter,
in good shape. Two eggs clear, one bad, and
one died in trying to break the shell. I was
much pleased and the chicks look as though
they will live. They all hatched the 19th day
of July. I thank you for your kind treatment
and always will speak in faver of your farm.
I expect more visitors next Sunday; believe
they are in the city.

G. W. K.,
Northampton, Mass., 7-18-08.

“A CHOICE BREEDING YEN OF 3°
CRYSTAL WHITE ORVINGTOR:
THE BIG EGG LAYERS

HATCHED FOURTEEN, TWELVE AND
TEN.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—My three settings of the Crystal
White Orpington eggs I received from you,
about March 28th, have been hatched and @
grand surprise it was. One hen brought out
FOURTEEN CHICKS and one egg was bad.
One brought out TWELVE CHICKS; two eggs
had young ones in almost to maturity, one
egg bad. The other hen brought out THN
CHICKS. Four eggs had young ones in dead,
almost to maturity, one egg bad.

I HAVE DEALT WITH LEADING BREED-
ERS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT
NONE EVER GAVE ME THE FERTILE EGGS
YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, AND i CANNOT
COMPLIMENT YOU TOO MUCH, AS YOU
DESERVE ALL AS A RELIABLE GENTLE-
MAN. I am

Yours respectfully,
DL, O. Kee
Pittsburg, Pa., 4-23-08.

ELEVEN NICE BIG CHICKS.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I take pleasure in advertising
that I have HLEVEN (11) NICE CHICKENS
from the setting of eggs you sent me. Two
eggs were infertile, one bad egg and one chick
dead in the shell. Hen accidentally rolled egg
out of nest when getting off and allowed it to
get chilled. CHICKS WERE AS BIG WHEN
HATCHED AS SOME WHITE WYANDOTTES
WERE WHEN A WEEK OLD. TI will be wm
the market for a cock to mate with the pullets
if I succeed in raising them.

Yours cordially,
W. EL. R.,
St. Lowis, Mo., 4-18-08.

KANSAS City — ‘S)

SHIPPED 325 MILES—MOVED THREE
TIMES—HATCHED FOURTEEN
OUT OF FIFTEEN.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I write to inform you that I got
FOURTEEN LIVELY WHITE ORPINGTONS
FROM THE FIFTEEN EGGS I ordered from
you on April 16th. All are lively and doing
finely. They began hatching last Thursday.
I consider the hatch remarkable, as they were
shipped 325 miles in the first place, and they
were moved three different times after incu-
bation began on account of difficulty in getting
hens to properly attend them. The eggs seem
to have remarkable vitality as well as fertility.

Will you have any eggs at reduced priccs
after hatching season is over?

Very truly,

Je Bes,
Kenwood Park, Iowa, 5-18-08.

OF RAISING POULTRY. 69

ELEVEN NICE CHICKS.

Ernest Kellerstrass.

My Dear Sir:—Your eggs came all right and
I have hatched ELEVEN NICE CHICKS, but
the bad weather xilled five of them. Do they
feather out rapidly or not? Can I expect any
show birds from what I raise, or will it be at
all unlikely for me to get any? What points
do they have to carry them to 93 or 94 score?
If not taxing you_too much, give me the points,
as Iam a new beginner with the Orpingtons.

Yours respectfully,

B. G. EL.
Cochran, Ga., 5-17-08.

TWELVE HATCHED.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I received the eggs I ordered
from you Saturday, March 28th, and set them
Monday, the 30th, and got a hatching of
TWELVE LITTLE CHICKENS FROM FOUR-
TEEN EGGS, one of the eggs being cracked;
it had been done in the nest, as they showed
no signs of damage in any way. The CHICKS
ARE VERY SPRY AND NICE, and I am well
pleased with the looks of them, and I am sure
I will have the “WHITEST” chickens in this
part of the country, as there are no Crystal
White Orpingtons in this part of the country
that I know of. I thank you for your honest
dealing, and will want eggs from better mating
the next time I order.

Yours truly,

1 OSI a rped Mee
Crothers, Pa.

TWELVE HEALTHY, STRONG
CHICKENS.

Mr. E. Keltlerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have received one setting of
eggs and got TWELVE HEALTHY AND
. STRONG CHICKENS out of the fourteen eggs;
one egg was broken when we received them.
The little chicks are now about ten days old,
and every one is growing and as healthy as
I have ever seen any.

Yours truly,

cA ais 1G:
Concordia, Mo., 5-26-08.

ELEVEN FINE STRONG CHICKS.

Wr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Feel it my duty to report the
result. On May 12th I had a hatch of ELEV-
EN (11) STKONG CHICKS from your eggs,
and they are all doing splendidly so far.

Yours respectfully,

Ee Os hs
Lannon, Wis., 5-28-08.

FOURTEEN AND TWELVE HATCHED.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have been intending to write to
you telling you what good luck I had with the
two settings of eggs I bought from you, but
I have been very busy and sick on the side.
I have FOURTEEN CRYSTAL WHITE ORP-
INGTONS out of the first setting and TWELVE
OUT OF THE SECOND. I think that is just
fine. The CHICKS ARE JUST AS LIVELY
AND STRONG AS ANY I EVER SAW, and no
doubt will make me a flock of good No. 1 birds.

I wish to thank you for your kindness and
courtesies, and wish you the continued success
of selling fine chickens.

Yours very respectfully,
wf Games
Platte City, Mo., 5-22-08.

HATCHED TWELVE CHICKS.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—About the last of April I re-
ceived a setting of Crystal White Orpington
eggs. THEY HATCHED US TWELVE CHICK-
ENS; three eggs were bad. THE -CHICKS
SHEM TO BE HEALTHY.

Respectfully,
TB eed tle
5E

Huntsville, Mo., 5-23-08.

TWELVE FINE CHICKS HATCHED.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—In reference to the eggs which
I got from you on the 31st day of March and
set the same day, they were nearly all hatched
the 20th day of April; that is, a day before
their time to hatch. THERE WERE TWELVE
FINE CHICKS HATCHED, AND I AM WELL
PLEASED WITH THE HATCH. 1 think they
will make some fine chicks. The little chicks
are doing fine.

Yours truly,
OF bi Ee
Wagoner, Okla., 4-26-08.

HATCHED TWENTY-FOUR.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I make the following report:
From Yard 30, two settings, thirty eggs, all in
good condition, received March 23, 1908, set
March 24th, under one black hen and one red
hen. The black hen broke one egy in nest and
HATCHED FOURTEEN CHICKS OUT OF
THE FOURTEEN EGGS. The red hen
HATCHED TWELVE CHICKS OUT OF HER
FIFTEEN EGGS, but another hen killed two
and one died in the nest. one egg was infertile,
and the other had a dead chick in it. So we
took off twenty-four nice, finc chicks and have
them all yet. They are all we expected, “just
splendid,’ and we are greatly pleased.

Yours truly,
EE Ox;

Pond Creek, Okla., 6-1-08.

70 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

HATCHED TWELVE FINE CHICKENS.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen: — HATCHED TWELVE FINE
CHICKENS out of setting of eggs from you
and they are beauties ; am going to try to raise
all of them tf care will do it.

Yours truly,

W. F. G.
Pocahontas, Iowa, 5

GOT ELEVEN CHICKS.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Would say that I received my
setting of eggs in good shape and took pains
to pick out one of my best hens to set them un-
der. I made her a nest in front yard; she set
fine; never broke an egg, but I got HLEVEN
CHICKS. The other four eggs were not
hatched, or had been spoiled in shipping, for
they had not started to hatch, so I think the
old hen done her part.

Yours for Orpingtons,

It (ON 15%
Huckman, Neb., 5

THE FOLLOWING THSTIMONIALS
are just a few from some of our customers,
written during the month of July, 1909. It
goes to show that we please our customers.
We will furnish you the full name and address
of any one of them if you are interested :

I bought 15 eggs from Mr. Kellerstrass at
$2.00 each. The chicks are not yet three
months old and will weigh easily three pounds
each at this writing. I shall, if I live, exhibit
these wonderful birds at our State Fair in Oc-
tober, and if justice is done in the judging I
shall score a triumph; $100 APIECE WOULD
NOT BUY THESE BIRDS FROM ME.

oi aes
Utah, July 30, 1909.

I bought eggs from the Kellerstrass Farm at
$2.00 each straight, and the chicks hatched
from these eggs are chicks wmdeed.

As to the vigor of the Crystal White Orp-
ingtons, I think they are unsurpassed, as I
have proof of that this season by the birds
from the eggs I purchased from them last
season, 1908—about 95% HATCHED. The
Kellerstrass Farm has always done the square
thing with me, and they have my best wishes.

J Sa Be:
Washington, July 12, 1909.

I bought 15 eggs of Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass
for $30.00. The chicks were hatched April 16
and I have so far succeeded in raising all that
were hatched. Hveryone who sees them thinks
they are the finest lot of chicks they ever saw.
I am well pleased with them. I HAVE ONE
PULLET THAT I WOULD NOT TAKE $50.00
FOR. So you see I think I am away ahead
on the deal. W. M.,

Pennsylwania, July 4, 1909.

I bought eggs from Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass
at $2.00 apiece, and will say that the chicks
hatched from these eggs are strona. healthy
and as fine little chicks as you ever saw. |.

I find that Mr. Kellerstrass gives his cus-
tomers their money’s worth. I am very much
pleased with the square dealings I had with
him. IH, ds Ibing

Pennsylvania, July 29, 1909.

I bought eggs from Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass
at $2.00 each. I had remarkable hatches from
said eggs, obtaining 6624 % in good, fine chicks,
of which I am justly proud. I have visited his
splendid farm on two occasions, at which time
I made the acquaintance of Mr. Kellerstrass,
and looked closely into the methods employed
by him in the conduct of his farm, and will
say that a view of Mr. Kellerstrass’ birds would
set the most conservative and _ cold-blooded
chicken fancier to glow with enthusiasm.

Ax Si Ds,
Oklahoma, July 12, 1909.

I bought eggs from the Kellerstrass Farm at
$2.00 each. I am very well pleased with my
treatment by Mr. Kellerstrass. The birds seem
to be healthy and thrifty ang look good to me,
as I am a breeder of prize birds. I think I
received my money’s worth, and expect in a few
months to fill my pens by purchasing a few
more pullets from hin. lips IDs.

Ohio, July 12, 1909.

I bought a setting of eggs from Mr. Hrnest
Kellerstrass for $80.00. The chicks hatched
from these eggs are healthy and rugged. They
are now about three weeks old. Je UNG Bas

New York, July 12, 1909.

I bought a setting of 15 eggs from Mr. Iel-
lerstrass for $30.00, and have nine healthy,
vigorous chickens. They are beautiful as to
color, shape and size for their ane and no $30
bill would buy them. C. L. M.,

Pennsylvania, July 12, 1909.

I bought a setting of eggs from Mr. Ernest
Kellerstrass for $30.00. I have seven very fine
birds from them; all strong, large, healthy
chicks. I have one pullet from this lot that
$50 would not buy. TI also have thirty more
eggs that will come off next week.

I find Mr. Kellerstrass a very fine gentleman
with whom to do business—prompt and square,
and he shall receive an order again next sea-
son from me. 1H 105 153,

Wisconsin, July 12, 1909.

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f bought 15 eggs from Mr. Kellerstrass and
paid him $2.00 apiece straight for them. J
got ten chicks, and they are ail living. I-have
handled four other breeds, und must say that
the Crystal White Orpingtons are the best.
They Gare the first to mature and they are the
healthiest birds I have ever kept.

Ja Wiel.
Minnesota, July 12, 1909.

I bought 15 eggs from Mr. Kelierstrass at
$2.00 each, 12 of which hatched. They are
strong and vigorous chicks. IMEAG= Wiss

Tennessee, July 12, 1909.

I bought eggs of Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass at
$2.00 each, and will say I have bought eggs
of other dealers, but I have got the best treat-
ment from Mr. Kellerstrass of any of them
to date. SeuSss

Ohio, July 12, 1909.

ue ee ee

ON THE KELLERSTRASS —KANSAS CITY. MO
WHEEKE THE “CRYSTAL WHITE OKPINGTONS WERKE OFIGINATED=~

I bought two settings of eggs from Ernest
Kellerstrass at $30.00 per setting this spring,
‘ and I have never seen any better chicks any-
where. While at present they are but half
grown, they have great strong legs and feet.
I have some eight hens that were hatched from
eggs bought of Mr. Kellerstrass last season
and they have proven to be wonderful layers
and the most satisfactory of fowls. My deal-
ings with Mr. Kellerstrass have been very sat-
isfactory. IR TBS Nee
Nebraska, July 14, 1909.

I bought a setting of eggs of Mr. Ernest Kel-
lerstrass of Kansas City, Mo., at $2.00 per egg.
I have made other purchases from Mr. Keller-
strass and have found him a very satisfactory
person with whom to do business.

: of eal Joep
Colorado, July 12, 1909.

POULTRY: (Bs

I bought a setting of 15 eggs from Mr. Kel-
lerstrass for $30.00, hatching and raising 12
chickens out of the 15 eggs. All are healthy,
vigorous birds, and I expect to do some shouw-
ing with them this fall and winter.

E Ax Mies
Indiana, July 12, 1908.

I bought a setting of eggs from Mr. Keller
strass for $30.00. I hatched fourteen chicks
from the setting. I have raised every one of
these chicks and they are strong and healthy.
They are perfect beauties and I can say that
Mr. Kellerstrass has certainly been square with
me in his dealings. I have had a very success-
ful year all around with my Crystal White
Orpingtons, raising 200 birds and sold about
$100 worth of eggs besides from ten pullets,

PA Seles
Georgia, July 21, 1909.

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I bought eggs from Mr. Kellerstrass at $2.00
each, and am well pleased with the results.
Every egg hatched but two. Will say Mr.
Kellerstrass is a gentleman in his dealings, per-
fectly reliable, and if he treats all of his cus-
tomers as he did me he will certainly wis
SUCCESS. Je EE OL,

Iowa, July 20, 1909.

I purchased eggs from Mr. Kellerstrass at
$2.00 each. The chicks hatched from these
eggs were very strong and vigorous. It wae
never my lot to have a stronger or more healthy
lot of chickens, and growing like weeds. fF
am more than proud of them and have wished
many times this summer that I had gotten twe
settings of eggs instead of one. I expect te
have them on exhibition this coming winter and
expect to win some ribbons. RK. M. G.,

Bie Iowa, July 17, 1909.

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——

I bought some eggs from Mr. Kellerstrass at
$2.00 each; the hatch was good; chicks are
vigorous; never lost a chick. Looks now as
though we would have the best White Orping-
tons for sale this season we have ever had.

UU TH, Lhe.
Indiana, July 12, 1909.

Mr. Ernest IKellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In regard to the laying qualities
of my chickens, will state that I have a pullet
that laid 197 eggs in eight months. [ have
a hen that hatched a brood of chicks for me
that began laying when the chicks were three
weeks old and laid sixteen days in succession.
Can you beat. it? Mr. Hale of the Reliable
Poultry Journal was down to see me and saw
the nen taking care of the little chicks. He
will have a write-up of her in the next issue.
Are you selling hens at reduced prices? Let
me know,

Respectfully,
J. C. M.,
St. Charles, Mo., July 30, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:-—I have been anxious for some
time to write you concerning the stock I got
from you as to laying qualities; they sure lay.
I think it ought to be THE BIG LAYERS, in-
stead of the BIG WINTER LAYERS, as they
lay the year around and certainly beat any
strain I ever had. The following are some
of my best results: One hen layed 227 eggS,
another 205 and another 196.

I have some young stock that gives wonder-
ful promise for next season.

With best wishes for your continued success
with Crystal White Orpingtons, I remain,

Yours truly,
GOs
Platte City, Mo., July 17, 1909.

Mr. Brnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas Oity, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Replying to yours, I only had
two pullets from my first setting bought of
you, hatched May 16, 1908. No. 1 commenced
laying Jan. 16, 1909, and up to July 11 had
laid 157 eggs, and the other to July 15, 1909,
laid 94 eggS.

Yours truly,
Brel Gann die
Princeton, Ill., July 16, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Up to 8-1, my pullet that I re-
ported to you has laid 168 eggs. On July 18
one of her pullets commenced laying at four
and one-half months old and for four days
after first ten days has laid each day.

I am very well satisfied with the Orpingtons
and can readily understand why you should
be so well pleased and advertise so extensively.
I have a lot of nice pullets this season.

Respectfully : i ee
Princeton, Iil., Aug. 4, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir:—Your Crystal White Orpingtons
are certainly great layers. I have placed my
Orystal White Orpingtons (Kellerstrass Strain)
in competition with other well known breeds,
but I have found that the Crystal White Orp-
ingtons are much superior.
I have one Crystal White Orpington (Kel-
lerstrass Strain) which has a 265 egg record.
No other breeds for me in the future except
the Crystal White Orpingtons.
Yours truly, A. W. G.,
Concordia, Mo., July 21, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir:—Yours of some days ago received.
I have one hen that has laid 259 eggs in less
than a year, lacks about six weeks or perhaps
two months, but set three weeks, then gave
chickens to another hen and she went right
to laying in a few days. I have as good lay-
ing strain as there is of the White Orpingtons.
Do not forget that I am to have two females
from your yards in September. I thought I
would remind you of this or you might sell too
close to let me have any.
Respectfully,
MRS. R. M. G.,
Chariton, Iowa, July 30, 1909.

P. S.—My seven from your eggs are doing
fine and want to be ready for shows.

My Dear Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have a Kellerstrass strain Crys-
tal White Orpington pullet that laid 251 eggs
in twelve months.

I have one pen of sixteen pullets (now hens)
that laid 3,696 eggs in tweive months.

I call them my “slot machines.”

Not one of these hens has been in a broody
coop over 48 hours at a tine.

Lb, Vos
Haysville, Pa., July, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I was just thinking yesterday
that I would like you to know how much
pleased I have been every hour with the son
of Peggy purchased from you last spring. He
is crowing lustily right now, and is the finest
rooster I have ever known without doubt.

I thought you would have enjoyed a little
rest from my pen, though I am glad of an. ex-
cuse in your last to hand to write again. I
enclose the laying record. Of course, they had
a period of molting and attended four shows,
away over a week to each show.

My last year’s pullets have laid splendidly,
but I haven't kept a record of them. Have
a fine lot of young stock and sold over fifty
settings of eggs.

The following is the record of my hens: _

Hen No. 375 laid 155 eggs in twelve months,

Hen No. 567 laid 206 eggs in twelve months.

Hen No. 719 laid 186 eggs in twelve months.

Hen No. 5924 laid 104 eggs in tweive months.

Yours truly,

ii, OB Ore
Gloucester, Va.. uly 17, 1909.

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Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Your letter at hand. Will say
that I got four cockerels and one pullet out of
the setting of eggs and raised them all. JE
had them in the show room at Music Hall Jan.
12 to 16. I took second on pullet and third and
fourth on cockerel. I sold the third cockerel
at the show for $25.

I will have to get some pullets from you this

fall. My hen started to lay two days after
the show, 18th of January, and up wntil the
18th of July she laid 123 eggs, and she is bet-

ting better all the time.
Yours truly, Wi JER Lee

Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In reply to your letter would say
I had a pullet last year from your yard No.
10 that is a wonder for eggs. You see, I have
no egg record for a year, as I had none of your
stock that commenced to lay until last Novem-
ber, which makes only eight months. You
know they were late hatches from your eggs
last year. :

But the pullet I speak of began laying Nov.
2d, and up to July ist laid 210 egys, and so
far this month has only skipped one day. In
June she became broody. I shut her up right
away and the third day she laid, is on the
nest bright and early and the greatest worker
IT ever. saw; works and sings. I would not
take a good deal for’ her. She is not over
large, but other ways a good hen.

I only had two pullets from your yard No.
10. The other one has laid splendidly—189
eggs in eight months. My other two hens were
from your yard No, 24 and are excellent lay-
ers, but not as good as the others. I have only
four hens. Since March 1st I sold six settings
of eggs; have 100 chicks myself, besides some
eggs that did not hatch. So I think that good
from four hens.

My young stock, especially my pullets, look
_ fine. Shall send some to the larger towns this
fall. I have a male bird hatched from eggs from
you last spring that has run in the sun all
summer and shows but just a slight tinge of
creamy look, is very nice wm color and size.
If I decided later to get a hen of you—how
good a one could you send me? Would want
one with a good comb and short on legs, as
the bird I speak of is a little long on legs, and
I should mate him up to the hen if I got her.

I took out a little ad in a poultry journal
advertising “Kellerstrass Strain’ and had more
orders than I could fill, while a friend of mine
who did not advertise the strain—simply said
“White Orpingtons’—had very few inquiries,
which shows the Kellerstrass Orpingtons are
certainly in great demand.

Wishing you success, I remain,

Yours truly OR MEN Be.
Oneonta, N. Y., July 14, 1909.

POULTRY. 73

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—My records on four of my best
hens are as follows: First Crystal White Orp-
ington hen laid from August 1st, 1908, to
August 1st, 1909, 228 eggs; the next hen taid
208; the next 196, and the next 181. The pul-
let which I purchased from you fer $50.00,
which is a@ daughter of your great egg layer,
Princess Louise, is the most persistent thing
to lay eggs I have ever seen, and I expect her,
by the close of the year, to beat the record of
her mother, or 236 eggs. I am going to have
the pictures of these two hens in the “Poultry
Success” in September issue. They are both
fine, large hens, weighing cight pounds: each,
My young birds are doing fine. I c#pect fo
exhibit some at the Chicago show this winter.

Again thanking you for your kindness in
shipping me the last eggs, I am

Truly yours, Ue Sia dss
Parker’s Landing, Pa., July 26, 1909.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In reply to yours will say:

First—My pullet christened “Sweepstakes”
has laid 138 eggs.

Second—‘“Peggy the Second’ has laid 127
eggs.

They have had every care and are still lay-
‘ing. The others are doing fine «also and bid
fair to be good show bDirds.

Yours respectfully,

CLodie Ile
Whitesville, Mo., July 28, 1909.

Kelierstrass Poultry Farm,

Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—I have a pullet that has laid
123 eggs from Jan. 1, 1909, to July 1, 1909.
I have a good many young chickens this
summer.
Yours truly,

yale ie ThiBe
Morocco, Ind., July 27, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In reply to your letter of recent
date asking for report on Crystal White Orp-
ington layers will say my pullets have all laid
exceedingly well. My best layer has laid one
hundred and seventy-six (176) eggs since Dec.
23. I have almost a field full of chickens
hatched from her eggs alone. She is now in
full molt, having missed three days so far in
July. I do not believe there is a hen or pullet
in the world that has produced more eggs swive
Dec. 23 than mine has.

With best wishes for your success, I beg to
remain,

Yours very truly,

Mrs. W. A. S.,
Ellsberry, Mo., July 26, 1909.

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Mr. EH. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I will send you the result from
one pullet—the only one I have.

Hatched June 20, 1908.

First egg laid February 4, 1909.

Up to July 25—119 eggs, and lays every day.

She is a worker in laying.

She hatched in March twelve chicks, and lost
about twenty-seven days in laying. So this
would bring up about 140 eggs in five months.

This is going some.

In February I will send you report for twelve
months in full.

I have about forty chicks coming along nicely.

Yours truly, :

G. Wm. K.,
Northampton, Mass., July 25, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have eleven fine, healthy chicks
from the $30.00 setting bought of you March
the ist. I am going to take extra care of
them, and I hope I will succeed in getting
something that will take the blue ribbon wher-
ever shown. I would like to have another
setting of them, but it is too late in the sea-
son now.

I had a fine business this season; far better
than I expected; could have done better if I
had had the stock, but, as you know, I had a
very few birds, consequentiy had to be satis-
fied with a small business. JI will be pre-
pared for the trade another season. I have
a fine chance of little fellows that came off in
January and February, and they are growing
fine. Wishing you a good and prosperous busi-
ness, I beg to remain

Yours truly,
Jo eRe:

Minden, La., April 22, 1909.

‘ORYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS WE
‘THE KELLERSTRASS FARM
AND WE STILL RAISE THEM BY THE THOUSANDS~-o

EHrnest Kellerstrass,
Kellerstrass Farm, Kansas City, Mo.

Dear- Sir:—I happened to be at Florence,
Ala., yesterday on the arrival there of the pen
of Crystal White Orpingtons which were or-
dered from you.

They were in good condition, and I wish to
thank you for the splendidly beautiful birds
you sent me. They are certainly the most
beautiful pen of chickens I ever saw. I am
not surprised that all the world wants your
stock of chickens. What will you sell me one
or two settings of eggs for?

Yours truly,

EP. Os Wes
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 23, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I herewith enclose you order for
$10 for which you will please ship me, at your
earliest convenience one setting of eggs. Would
like for you to advise me a few days before
shipping them. I sent my birds to Little Rock
last week and, am proud to say, captured first
prizes on cockerel, pullet and pen. They beat
the world laying. A large portion of the last
six weeks I have 100 per cent on egg produc-
tion. Have had numerous orders and inquiries
for both eggs and chickens. Unfortunately my
stock is limited and I am setting all I can get.
You will no doubt get many calls for eggs and
stock, as I have given your address in most
cases. I hope yow will be able to furnish me
with a setting in the near future.

Yours truly,

lies 15 lop
Pine Bluff, Ark., 2-11-0°

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Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Mr. Kellerstrass:—Am writing to re-
port the success had with chickens purchased
from you last December. One hen proved to be
an exceptionally good one, laying NINETY-
THREE HGGS BEFORE TAKING A REST of
more than one day in succession. Set seven of
her eggs on New Year’s day, hatched five chicks
which I have raised. The largest pullet weighs
four and one-half pounds now, and today, on
going into the coop, found a pullet’s egg which
one of them had laid. SHH WILL NOT BE
FOUR MONTHS OLD UNTIL MAY 20TH.
This is a record that none of the chicken fan-
ciers here have ever heard of, and it may sound
“fishy” to you, but would be qualified as to its
authenticity. Have forty chicks hatched, and
this will occupy all the room I have. Would
like to purchase a cock bird some time during
the summer or fall, to mate up with these pul-
lets. Would like one well marked, good comb,
nearly up to standard weight; one that will
score 938 points anyway. Have several very
promising cockerels on hand. Will you please
advise me as to the purchase of cock, price, etc. ?

Thanking you for your courtesy, 1 am

Yours cordidily,
Om dans,
Vandergrift, Pa., May 15, 1909.

Ernest Kellerstrass, Esq.,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have been most agreeably sur-
prised at the egg production. My Orpingtons
have FAR HXCELLED ALL EXPECTATIONS.
I have a very fine bunch of birds and feel sure
Ill do credit to your strain.

If nothing prevents, I expect to enter my
birds at a number of shows this fall and win-
ter, and hope to make it exccedingly hot for my
competitors.

I hope to have the pleasure of visiting your
farm some time this year, as I am very anxious
to know and see more of the Crystal White
Orpingtons.
. Yours truly,

Re Ee
Pine Bluff, Ark., July 238, 1909.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The birds arrived this A. M.,
Monday, and for anything I see are im fine
shape; and as for my opinion, think they are
a trio of fine birds. I don’t know as they are
any relation to “Peggy” and “Biddy.” but look
as though they might be. I. have a nice place
for them and will do my best to accomplish
good results. Thanking you for the attention
paid my order, and hoping I may be able to
make a good report, I remain

Yours truly,

iby Op Ses
Chatham, N. Y., March 29, 1909.

Mr. H. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Youw will remember that I raised
to maturity fourteen chickens out of fifteen of
your White Orpington eggs, and you used my
letter in this season’s mating list. When I get
my egg premium from you I shall claim that I
have cleared over one hundred dollars from one
setting of your eggs within one year. I figure
it this way: I won three prizes at two of the
January snows on a cockerel and pullet selected
from the flock and sold two of the cockerels
that I did not care to keep, realizing $20; your
prize will bring the proceeds to $50. I have
$12 worth of eggs booked for March delivery,
without any attempt at advertising, and in-
quiries are coming in every few days.

I have a breeding pen of one prize cockerel
and eight females, one of the pullets scoring
96. I have two extra cockerels besides. I value
my breeding pen at $100. If you will agree to
duplicate it in quality for less money, I will
come down in price, but they are NOT FOR
SALE. I have been requested many times to
put a price on them; they will be worth more
than $100 to me for breeding, for I intend to
raise every Orpington that I can, and I know
that I can sell every surplus egg at a fancy
price.

My eight pullets are laying finely and are
laying almost as many eggs per week as five
times their number of Buff Wyandotte hens
and pullets. The judge at the Cedar Rapids
show pronounced my cockerel the whitest bird

he had ever judged. He scored 93 after 2%

points had been deducted for dccidental injury
to his comb dnd wattles.

My estimates may look pretty large, but it is
just the way I see it, and all from one setting
of eggs. I only regret that I did not invest
$100 in eggs last season.

Yours truly, Jie He Oe
Kenwood Park, Iowa, Feb. 22, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Replying to your favor of the
15th inst., will say I am well pleased with the
pen of Crystal White Orpingtons received on
the 17th inst. They seem to be in good con-
dition and not any worse for the trip. They
are certainly nice stock. Thanking you for
your prompt shipment, etc., 1 am

Yours truly,
Hi Abs od
Villa Grove, Colo., May 19, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Last year my Orystals were not
hatched early enough to begin laying at this
season. So I have no year’s record, but am
sending record of one of my pullets for eight

months, thinking possibly it might excel the
year’s record of some. She was hatched May

8, 1908; began laying Nov. 24, 1908, and has
laid 142 eggs to this time and is still at it.
Respectfully,
CASE
Weldon, Ill., July 29, 1909.

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Kellerstrass Poultry Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—The pen of Orystal White Orp-
ingtons you selected and shipped to me by
express arrived safely this A. M., and I am
entirely satisfied with your sélection, and con-
sider myself very fortunate wm getting such fine
birds for my start with this breed of chickens.

There was some delay in receiving them, as
there was some breakdown upon the railroad,
but no harm resulted except that I thought
they would never cease drinking. After satis-
fying their thirst they seemed perfectly con-
tented in. their new home, and I shall expect
them to begin business very soon.

Thanking you for your careful attention to
my order, and wishing you success, I remain

Yours truly,

HS IBS,
Springfield, Ill., May 26, 1909.

“HERDING TID
Cry. Mo. WHERE THE CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTONS
WERE ORIGINATED

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kellerstrass Farm, Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The cockerel and four pullets ar-
rived yesterday, and your selection was a good
one. We are much pleased with them. We
have had over fifty visitors looking at them.

Yours truly, oly) JB.
Williams, Ariz., March 20, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I received the chickens in good
condition on the 8:35 express last night, and
am very well pleased with them so far and hope
they will lay soon. They seem right at home
and are as lively as can be.

Thanking you for your promptness and wish-
ing you much success in the future, I am

Yours respectfully, H. M.,
Bangor, Mich,, March 18, 1909.
Mt. Joy, Pa., 4-29-09.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I am about to send a pen and a
trio of hens off to the Baltimore Show. I got
special mention, I think, from the Richmond
Show, because my birds, though entered in the
pen class, were individually ahead of the prize-
winners in the single class. They said they
hoped I would send up a good string, and I
had pretty nearly as good at home as I had
at the show.

Hens laid all through the show; I had not
been back twenty-four hours before they had
laid. I have the finest cockerel from first pen
to breed from.

Yours truly,

MRS. DL. C. C.,
Chattahooche, Ga., July 15, 1909.

® ON THE KELLERSTRASS FARM, "KANSAS

Mr. EF. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I suppose you will think, after
reading this letter, that I am a green mortal,
but that is not the case. Something happened
to me this time that never did before in all

my experience. I wrote you that I was dis- °

appointed in just getting siw chicks out of the
thirty eggs. I will admit I was, but it seems
that Providence was with me; instead of tak-
ing the eggs away from the hen, as I usuaily
do, I was so disgusted that I left her set two
days longer, and to my amazement, at the end
of the third day after the hatch should have
come out, I went to take her off and found nine
chicks under her. I was surely surprised; in-
stead of only six I have fifteen, and perfectly
satisfied with my hatch. Had sixteen, but one
was killed in the nest. I suppose the chick
must have chilled the eggs and that delayed the
hatch.
Yours truly,
#H. W. G.,

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Mr. E. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I write to let you know that I
got thirteen fine Orpingtons from the prize set-
ting of eggs that I received from yow last
month.

My hen broke one of the eggs that would
have hatched. I am raising them in a home-
made fireless brooder, and in spite of the damp,
cold weather, all are alive and doing finely.

They are now eight days old, and I never
saw chickens do better. I can testify once
more to the exceptional fertility and vitality
of the Crystal White Orpingtons.

Yours truly. See One
Kenwood Park, Iowa, 4-22-09.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Would say that I have had fine
success with the three settings of eggs received
from you, receiving thirty-one fine chicks, of
which I am very proud, and I hope I shall be
able to raise them all.

Yours respectfully,

f )N Ophea
Brighton, Ill., 4-6-09.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In regard to the setting of Crys
tal White Orpington eggs that I bought from
you and which came off May 4th, 1909, I got
six chicks out of eight eggs from your $30
matings and five chicks out of your $10 mat-
ings, eleven out of all, which I am well satis-
fied with. They are doing fine at this writing.
Please remember me for your catalogue in the
coming year,

Yours respectfully,

TOs Liss
Hibernia, N. J., May 24, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Your tetter of the 23d came to
hand yesterday, but the cockerel came through
on Tuesday, the 26th. He came in good con-
dition, and I must say that I am very well
pleased with him. TI like his shape and color
a little better than the other one. I think
that he will be a good breeder. I have a hen
that scored by Judge Northrup, of New York,
96 points; in fact, the whole pen where I am
putting this bird scored from 93 to 96 points,
and I think that I will surely get some very
fine chicks from this pen this year. I am
very much pleased to know that you are doing
a square and honorable business. Jt is a pleas-
ure to deal with a man who holds his honor
above money. JI am very much pleased with
the dealings we have had, and I thank you for
honorable and square dealing.

Yours most respectfully,

Dd NOL.
Milton, Ore., Jan. 29, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Replying to your inquiry of July
10th, in regard to how your birds are doing in
my hands, will say that I am more than pleased
with them. I kept ten pullets for egg pur-
poses during the last season and from the start
I was struck with the remarkable laying qual-
ities of one particular hen hatched from your
eggs. She commenced laying Oct. 16, and has
continued up to July 15, which makes 272
days. While I had other hens during this
period which have taken their nests to set from
four to siz times each, this hen has never taken
to her nest to set. She will be a good hen to
breed a non-setting class from. I used her in
the past season simply because I had so few
birds. In other words, this hen laid 263 eggs
in 272 days. I never heard of this hen’s equal.

Yours truly,

ft

{Es dike
Chattahoochee, Ga.. July 15. 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I hatched a pullet from Crystal
White Orpingtons on Jan. 20, 1909. that laid
her first egg on May 15, 1909, and has laid 38
eggs to the present time. This is the comment
and wonder among chicken fanciers in this
community.

Respectfully,

Crida (Ds,
Vandergrift, Pa., July 13, 1909.

P. S.—This fact will be subscribed to before
a notary if you desire.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
KIKansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In answer to your inquiry as to
the number of eggs laid by hens from the Kel-
lerstrass Strain, I am glad to report two which
I think have an eacellent record; one laying
192, while the other laid 183. This is, of
course, from my best hens, the others laying
from 135 to 150. Hoping this wilt be of im-
terest to you, I remain,

Yours truly,

Anan;
Akron, Ohio, July 26, 1909.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The four hens and roosters, also
the three settings of fifteen eggs, arrived here
this A. M. at ten o’clock. A great many ad-
mired the fowls, for they are a fine lot and I
am well pleased with them. Receive my thanks
for sending such fine birds. The eggs were all
in first-class condition.

Yours truly,

COPE KG.
Millers, Nev., March 7, 1909.

78 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Siv:—Yours of the 10th received. All
of our hens have laid well all season and espe-
cially one—Iate Kellerstrass—which is a regu-
lar egg machine.

Yours very truly,
Gis Ob Los
Ottumwa, Iowa, July 23, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Kindly send me a few of your
latest catalogues, as I have some friends wish-
ing same.

Yours very truly,
Gi. OF S..8 SOM:
Ottumwa, Iowa, March 10, 1909.

P. S.—Are getting orders for all eggs we can

furnish.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo. <

Dear Sir:—Received the cockerel safely yes-
terday, the 25th inst., same arriving in splen-
did condition.

In reply to your letter, I must say that I am
more than pleased with the bird you sent me,
as he surpasses all my expectations.

I had decided to commence with Orystal
White Orpingtons, believing that the best way
to start was by obtaining the best, and what-
ever success I may attain will, I am sure, be
in no small measure due to your good selection
and fair way of dealing with me. I remain

Yours respectfully, INE Ee
Fravel, Wash., Feb. 26, 1909.

A SWAP SHOT OF CRYSTAT, WHITE ORPINGTONS AT HOME.
ON THE KELLERSTRASS FARM -KANSAS CITY, MO.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir:—I should have written you several
days ago, but was out of town for a few days.
The pen of chickens was received in good
shape and everyone thinks they are a fine pen.
One hen started laying in a ccunle of days, and
now I am getting three eggs a day.
Thanking you for this pen, I am
Yours truly,
C. D. G.,
Oskaloosa, Iowa, 3-3-09.

Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The breeding pen of Orpingtons
arrived promptly and in fine condition. Am
well pleased with them. One of the pullets
started in laying on the second day after their
arrival.

Yours very respectfully,
J. H. K.,
Millersburg, Pa., March 23, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I am enclosing three first certifi-
cates properly signed. We presume there are
others of your patrons who have made more
shows and taken more “firsts” than we have.
However, wish you to know of the success we
have had. We are much pleased with the many
compliments we have received on our Orystal
White Orpingtons, and hone by another year
to have at least a dozen prizge winners. Our
pullet scored 96 at Belle Piuine, Ia., by Judge
Lllison. We are delighted. They call her the
“Second Peggy’ up there. I was very much
pleased to make the acquaintance of your son
here at Cedar Rapids Poultry Show, and I ad-
mired your exhibit very much. Our pullets are
laying finely.

Very truly,
MRS. J. H. C.,
Kenwood Park, lowa, Feb. 13, 1909.

P. S.—Do you know of any pullet shown this

year which has scored better than ours?

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Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I received your letter of December
ist, and certainly do want your mating list and
catalogue as soon as published. I wrote you
some time ago, asking “If you would book me
an order for a setting of eggs, to be sent about
March ist, 1909, from your $45.00 pen of 1908,
or its equivalent, 1909, and would send you a
check in ample time to pay for eggs to be sent
at that time.” :

You were away from home and daughter
answered letter. I am sorry I will have no
Kellerstrass Orpingtons for sale. JI rdised nine-
teen chickens; ALL BUT ONE that hatched
from eggs received. By culling the nineteen
down will have a beautiful pen to hatch from.
As I am so delighted with the birds from your
cheaper pens, it makes me more anxious to
have birds from your best.

In answer to letter, we have quite a number
of poultry shows near us (live twenty-seven
miles west of Harrisburg), but as i live in a
small town do not have room enough to raise
more than a limited number of birds. I do not
care to take birds myself to the shows, and do
not have enough to justify me to send a man
to exhibit for me. I did exhibit at show the
time I wrote you, and took first prize; had sev-
eral offers for my birds, but would not sell, as
I look forward to raising next year from pen.
Last year I advertised in “Farm Journal’ and
was surprised at the sale I had for settings of
eggs.

I look forward to 1909 with a great deal of
pleasure, as I love to take the eggs, place in
inewbator, hatch and raise the chickens all
myself. Have been raising chickens only four
years and am delighted with improvement and
success every year. Please send mating list
when published. Thanking you for your kind
business suggestions that I am sure will be @
great help, I remain

Respectfully,
MES: C. M.,
New Bloomfield, Pa., 12-7-08.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Your kind favors of the 1st and
“2d at hand, and TI have noted very carefully
what you say about showing birds. I think
that true; it is worth a great deal to show
one’s birds. I am expecting to show at Fre-
mont, Lincoln and Omaha; would have liked
to take in the other small shows, but I could
not get the time to go.

Mr. Kellerstrass, I have written to everyone
who advertised in the poultry papers, of the

Crystal White Orpingtons to buy some more
birds, and have only succeeded in getting two

bunches of pullets and some cockerels. I am
going to mate out some more pens of the Crys-
tal Whites for sale; I have now three pens that
are for sale—one at $100, one for $75 and one
for “50 per pen.

I did not want to sell them just now, for
they are not quite up to weight. I had a judge
come here from Lincoln on the 1st ef December
—that was the first of this week—and score all
my birds. ‘My CRYSTAL WHITES scored 90
and better, with cuts for weight three to five

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points. When they are up to weight they will
be very good.

Now, Mr. Kellerstrass, I want your new mat-
ing list as soon as I can get it. I want some
more eggs as quickly as I can get them. I have
a nice old hen setting now, but no eggs of the
CRYSTAL WHITES to put under her. How
soon can I get a setting for her?

I sold a pen for $75—four pullets and one”
cockerel. I thought this a pretty good price
for a new beginner in the Whites, but I want
to hold up the price as high as I can, for I am
going to raise all the Orystal Whites I can

next season.
I am on @ deal now for ten more pullets of

one man who bought birds of you last year,
and I am on a deal now for a cockerel from
another man who wants $25 for his cockerel.
I think I will take the bird. I will have sev-
eral birds for sale when I get them shaped up.
I thank you very much, Mr. Kellerstrass, for
your kindness to me.
Yours very truly,
We Di Be
Shelton, Neb., 12-4-08.

Mr. Kelilerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I received the ribbons some time
ago. I showed at Iowa Fails and won first
pullet. I showed at Dows and won first cock-
erel, first pullet and first pen. You had a
$30.00 setting of White Orpington eggs; they
were won for the best ten White Orpingtons in
the Dows Show, and I won them. And the
cockerel that I showed in Dows—D. E. Heaile
said he was the best shaped White Orpington
cockerel he ever saw. That cockerel was from
a setting I bought from you last year.

Yours very truly,
We Ox
Dows, Iowa, 2-9-09.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The pen of White Orpingtons ar-
rived in good condition. I am much pleased
with them. They are surely great egg pro-
ducers. I have had Buff Cochins for fifteen
years and am the head of the heap, having won
the American Buff Cochin Club cup three times
straight.

While I like the Cochins, I am liable to
switch. I am setting every Orpington egg I
get.

You will have to look out for me.

Yours very truly,
EV ANSR ETE,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 15, 1908.

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—The chickens arrived all O. K.
last Thursday. They are certainly very pretty
and I believe what you say about their laying
qualities, for we have gotten two eggs already
from them,

Thanking you for same, I remain

Yours truly,
WIR 1b6 Tbe
Newton, Ga., Feb. 1, 1909.

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Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Enclosed you will fine two cer-
tificates that won this week at the show at
Ashley, Ohio. We are going to make eight or
ten shows around this section, and I think we
can win over anything in this country. We
think we have at least one high-class pullet,
as she scored 984% and was docked two for
weight.

We only sent one cockerel and two pullets
and won two firsts and a second. We did not
expect to show our birds quite so early, and
did not have them up to weight. We would
like to have our badges to put on the coops
next week.

Yours very truly,

WEES Ei. AL Wa.
Tiffin, Ohio, 12-4-08.

KANSAS CITY
ORPINGTONS

Mr. HE. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Please find enclosed $10, for
which please send me one setting of Crystal
White Orpington eggs.

As to the yard they are to come from, I
leave that to you, as you know your birds, and
trust that you will do the best you can for the
money.

As for the eggs I got last year, I have two
pullets that are real good. I had them to the
local show. They were young, but I wanted to
see what they were. One scored 89%, the
other 9144, with 3% points cach cut for under
weight. One has laid twenty-two and the
other twenty-three eggs this month, with two
days remaining.

I am satisfied that the laying qualities are
in the Crystal White. Please ship my eggs
on or about the 15th of March tf you can,

Yours truly,
Hp Rese
Bellingham, Wash., Feb. 26, 190°.

AYEW EARIY HATCHRD COCKRELS ON THE KELLERSTRASS FARM —
‘ITY. MO ORIGINATORS OF THE CRYSTAL; WHITE

Mr. Kellerstrass,

Dear Sir:—Beg to advise you that I have
twelve fine chicks from the eggs I got of you;
all doing fine.

Yours very truly,
F, A, M.,
Liberty, Ind., March 10, 1909.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir:—The setting of eggs we received

from you on March 4th hatched March 25th,
and we have eleven fine chicks. Every egg was

fertile, but four chicks did not get out of the
shell.
We are pleased, as we are with all eggs re
ceived from you.
Yours very truly,
D. Eis
Salina, Kans., March 29, 1909.

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Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I fully appreciate the interest you
show in my success, and am greatly obliged to
you for the same. I certainly wish one of your
new mating catalogues, as I shall order more
eggs of you this winter sure, and shall hope I
may not be disappointed by not being on the
list of fortunate buyers.

My five pullets of Crystal White Orpington
strain hatched April 14th, 1908, and are all
laying now. I got the first eyg November 18th,
and before the 26th each pullet had laid her
first egg. JI shall not have any eggs to sell
other than order I already fiave, as I wish to
hatch one hundred myself from these pullets,
and as for selling the pullets, it will take e@
good price to get them from me.

Trusting I may receive a mating list from
you ads soon as possible, I remain

Yours very sincerely,
HE. J. B..,
Detroit, Mich., 12-5-08.

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Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I received from you yesterday a
copy of your mating list, for which I thank
you. As to the setting of eggs that I got of
you last June, will say that they were hatched
on the first day of July, and we raised ten
chicks—jive cockerels and five pullets—gath-
ered our first eggs on the first day of January,
and by about the 15th I think they were all
laying. We have no exact account of the num-
ber they laid in January, but think about
sizty; kept a correct account of the number
they laid in February, and procured one hun-
dred and eleven. Now, that is the greatest
record we have ever had for six Missouri pul-
lets.

Yours respectfully,
Carthage, Jil., March 6, 1909.
Whe ese, alee

Mr. Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Kindly allow me to thank you for
your honorable way of doing business. Eggs
received in good condition, and I set them the
second day after receiving them; hatched elev-
en strong, healthy chicks; am _ very much
pleased and hope to be able to raise them all.
Will give you another order in time; maybe
this season. Can you furnish them on short
notice? -

Yours truly,
Af TG ales Oe
Greenville, Ill., April 10, 1909.

Mr. J. S. Jordan.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—After visiting your poultry farm
while attending the poultry show at Kansas
City, IT cannot help writing you a@ letter, con-
gratulating you on your excellent system of car-
ing for poultry. I have had the pleasure of
visiting many poultry farms, both here and in
the East, and I consider your poultry farm an
ideal one.

Your Orystal White Orpingtons I consider are
the finest I ever had the pleasure to see. And
your excellent trap nest system no doubt has
enabled you to produce the finest strain of
Orystal White Orpingtons ever produced in
America. I was very favorably impressed with
the large laying record of your hens. I am
convinced that these results could not have
been attained without your trap nest system.
The poultry industry in this country is rapidly
becoming one of our leading industries. Those
who take the time and precaution to develop
a high standard of birds will be greatly re-
warded for all their time and money spent.
Your success, without a doubt, has _ been
achieved through the splendid equipments, good
management, and excellent variety of birds.

Wishing you ever success, I am

Very respectfully,
J. S. JORDAN.
Member and Representative of the P. G.
Townsend Mfg. Co.

Hutchinson, Kans., Jan. 20, 1908.

Mi. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In referenee to the hens you sent
me—they are the gentlest, sweetest-natured
birds it has ever been my pleasure to see, and
will come up to my wife anywhere at any time,
if she goes where they can see her.

Yours truly,

E. RICHARD SHIPP.
Casper, Wyoming, Jan. 25, °09.

Mr. Ernest Wellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I want to thank you for your.
courteous replies to my letters; so much dif-
ferent from what I have gotten from others.
I wrote to some White Orpington breeders ask-
ing if they had some of your birds, but they
did not; they said they had “not your birds
but better birds than yous,’ and answered
about two weeks after inquiry. Yow must know
how much I believed them for they did not get
my order.

I will want some eggs from some .of your
good pens in season. Please consider me one
of your friends and well-wishers for the “KEL-
LERSTRASS CRYSTAL ORPINGTONS.”

RALPH E. WOODS, Shelton, Neb.
12-3-'08.

Kellerstrass Farm.
Kansas City. Mo.

Dear Sir:—I am glad to report that the
chickens arrived in good shape, and can dssure
you that I an very much pleased with them.
I found one egg in the box and got one egg
yesterday. and two today. So you see I am
also well pleased in this respect. I suppose
that the eggs you shipped to me yesterday will
arrive some time today.

Wishing you continued success, IT am,

Yours very truly,
(Signed) E. L. ALDRICH.
Keokuk, Iowa, March 21, °08.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen:—Here is a little article that
might be of use to you in your advertising cam-
paign: ;

“Last spring I invested ten dollars with Kel-
lerstrass for a@ setting of his famous White Orp-
ingtons, being interested in the breed and to
see what results I might obtain. The eggs
reached me in tip top shape, and I succeeded
in hatching seven nice healthy chicks and
raised every one of them.

“T have in my possession, at the present
time, six of these birds, three pullets and three
cockerels; cxcellent, big, fine colored birds, and
each of these have been scored by one of the
best judges in the United States, scoring from
90 to 95 points. Call on me and TI will show
you the score cards.”

Very truly yours,

C. P. KNIGHT, Binghampton, N. Y.
12-29-08.

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Elmendorf Stock Farm.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir:—I am well pleased with the pen
of birds you shipped me. I entered them here
in the Lexington Show and they were judged
by J. A. Drevenstedt of Red Bank, N. J. I
won with the pen I bought from you, first
cock, first and second hen, and first and third
pullet and first pen. The birds arrived Friday,
the first of January, in fine condition from the
trip.
Thanking you for yeur selection of the pen
and your prompt shipment of them, £ remain,
Yours truly.
LOUIS LEE HAGGIN.
Lexington, Ky.

P. S—Ptease send me your price list of eggs.

Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Geitlemen:—The birds arrived in fine con-
dition, and I am delighted with them. Hvery
one who has inspected them thinks they are all
right. I compliment you on the way you
ship your birds. They certainly were comfort-
ably, yet lightly crated. I took the pen out
to my farm and will start hatching a batch
as soon as I get eggs enough. I am going to
put the pen in the fall show here. There never
was a class of “Crystal” White Orpingtons wn-
til this year, so the farmers around will have
a chance of seeing them.

Yours faithfully and more than satisfactory,

lS UNG LY.
Vancouver, B. C., July 7, 1908.

Judge A. QO. Schilling.

The Great Poultry Artist.

Dear Myr. Kellerstrass.

It may interest you to know
that in the past five years \t has
been my pleasure to have the op-
portunity of handling and illus-
trating a good portion of the best
Orpingtons in this country, but
to my mind the female, of which
I made a study for you at the
Jamestown Haxposition was su-
perior in Orpington shape to any
of her kind I have handled here-
tofore.

I was much pleased to have the
opportunity to visit your farm and
look over the birds during my
recent visit to Kansas City Show.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,

Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—Your favor of Nov. 3rd received.
The birds arrived in good condition. They are
certainly the whitest Orpingtons IT have seen
and trust that their laying qualities are good.

Kindly let me know when the ceckerel was
hatched, the age of the females and oblige,

Very truly yours,
FRED H. KOSTER,
Huntington, N. Y., Nov. 20, °O8.

Mr. Hrnest Kellerstrass.,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I received your letter of some
time ago; did not answer; I was waiting until
I nad attended a show and see what I had. at
Buffalo Heart. Til.

I got first, second and third on pallet, with
good competition.

Yours respectfully,

D. W. SHELLEY,
Williamsville, 11l., Dec. 12, °OS8.

Kellerstrvass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Gentlemen :—Yours of the 19th inst., to hand.
The birds reached me all vight the itth and 1
like their looks and also their acts. One of
them laid an egg in three heurs from the time
she was delivered to yard. She began looking
for a nest as soon as released.

I think they are all right. My neighbors
who have seen them like them.

Respectfully,

Ww. W. NORWOOD.
Russellville, Mo., Maren 20, OS.

in the past it has been the gen-
eral opinion of most Orpington
breeders that the whites were in-
ferior in color and shape to the
others of their breed, but I am
confident that a visit to your farm
would change their mind. I must
admit that I expected to find a
few pens of select. iarge white
birds, but to see one yard after
another of birds ef quality and
color was a surprise to me.

_ I have visited a great many of
the largest plants in the East, but
up to date I cannot recall one
which impressed me so favorably
as an ideal place. With your own
electric power and water supply,
you certainly have an establish-
ment up-to-date and complete in
every respect.

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To me the future of the White
Orpingtons looks very bright, and
I truly believe that the time is
not far off when these classes will
rank among the largest in every
show room in this country. You
are well deserving of the credit
and honors your birds have won,
and the efforts you are making
in putting this breed where it be-
longs, at the top of the list as a
fancy and utility fowl.

The quality of stock you have
Shown at the largest Hastern and
Western shows I am sure has done
much to bring them to the front,
and I wish you continued success
in your effort.

With kindest regards, I beg to
remain

Very truly yours,

A. O. SCHILLING.

Judge W. E. Stanfield.

Chicago, Ill.,
Jon. 1; 1908.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—I have your request
of recent date, asking me to state
my opinion and just what I think,
also any suggestion that I may
have to offer, after a day spent
on your farm, relative to the farm
itself, and the “‘Crystal’” Strain of
White Orpingtons. It has been
my pleasure within the past six
years to visit every poultry farm
im the Middle West, also several
in the Eastern states, with but
yew exceptions, and I can say,
without any hesitation, that I
never saw a more ideal place for
a poultry farm than yours, as to
situation, surrounding country,
and especially the even climate
that prevails in your section.

These features combined assure

a possibility in developing and
rearing poultry to the best ad-
vantage, which has been demon-
strated by the farm’s product,
namely, “The Crystal White Orp-
ingtons,”’ that have proven their
quality to be unequaled in every
show of prominence in the United
States this past season. It would
be impossible for me to criticise
in any way the methods pursued
at your farm. Your system of
management throughout would be
hard to improve upon, and I take
pleasure in endorsing the farm’s
product to the poultry public and
firmly believe the merit of the
Single-Comb White Orpingtons
has won for themselves an estab-
lished place in the poultry world.

Sincerely yours,

W. EH. STANFIELD,
Editor and Judge.

Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,
Jan. 10,°1908.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Monsas Cty, Ue Se Ax

Dear Friend Kellerstrass:—The
gve birds I bought of you for
$1,000.00 arrived in good condi-

tion and I turned them out, and

in less than half an hour one of
them laid an egg. They are sure

‘ what you say—the big egg pro-

ducers. I entered them here in
the show this week and won two
firsts and three seconds. I surely -
want to represent the “Crystal”
White Orpingtons on this side of
the world for you.

Yours very truly,

WALTER C. WEEDON.

84 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

Judge W. C. Pierce. |

Indianapolis, Ind.,
Keb. £21908:

Ernest Kellerstrass.

Dear Sir:—I look back with
pleasure at my trip to the Kansas
City Show, and my visit to the
Kellerstrass Farm, which was a
great, surprise to me in many re-
spects, as the quality in this breed
as you have obtained in same. Be-
sides the birds you had in the
Kansas City Show, which were
marvels, we found an entire dif-
ferent string picked out for the
Chicago Show and then hundreds
of other specimens that were
worthy of the blue ribbons im

almost any show in the land. If

was also surprised to see 100
acres devoted te this one breed,
and I must state that I have never
been upon a more up-to-date or
better managed farm in America.
You are making this breed one of
the foremost breeds of the land.
I know with your push and
knowledge of this breed that you
will put it to the very top of the
breeds, both for beauty and util-
ity. Trusting that I may have
the pleasure of visiting your farm
again in the near future, I am

Very truly yours,
W. C. PIERCE.

Judge C. H. Rhodes.

Topeka, Kan.
Kellerstrass Farm.

The name of Kellerstrass
reaches all over the United States,
and associates itself with White
Orpingtons. Why? Because Mr.
Kellerstrass has one of the larg-
est and most modern equipped

plants that money and brains. can
produce. We visited this model
farm January 16, and found 4,000 ©
White Orpingtons housed in build-
ings specially constructed for
healthfulness. In all of this great
army of birds we did not see any
droopy or sick ones. Absolute
cleanliness im all bwildings and
yards is the safeguard adopted at
Kellerstrass Farm.

We noticed hundreds of young
chickens at the incubator houses
from one day to ten days old,
strong, vigorous, healthy, noi a
weakling in the bunch. From
these youngsters the great win-
ners for 1908 and 1909 will be
selected and sold to customers of
this country and over the big
pond. Mr. Kellerstrass devotes
his entire time to the improve-
ment and betterment .of his poul-
try business. He personally se-
lects all shipments, and be it said
to lis credit a dissatisfied cus-
tomer is unknown.

The Kellerstrass Orpingtons
have been exhibited at all the
large shows East and West, and
no one breed had attracted more
attention.

C. H: RHODES

Judge W. S. Russell.

Ottumwa, Ia.,
Jan. 31, 1908.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—You are to be con-
gratulated for the high quality
of Single-Comb White Orpingtons
that you are exhibiting this sea-
son. I inspected your exhibit at
the Jamestown EHxposition Poul-
try Show, also Missouri State, and
then again at Chicago Show, and
wil say, “they are great.”

Yours truly,

W. S. RUSSELL.

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Judge Thomas W. Southard.

4345 Genessee St.,
Kansas City, Mo.,
Feb. 2, 1908.

Ernest Kellerstrass,
Pro. Kellerstrass Farm,
Kansas City, Mo.

Dear Sir:—In reply to your let-
ter asking me to express my
honest opinion of your farm,
stock, business methods, etc., I
will say, without flattery, you
have much the best equipped farm
I ever saw. And I have-.watched
you perfect the “Crystal” White
Orpingtons until today I consider
your White Orpingtons are the
leading strain in the world, and
I am willing to back up any deal
you make.

Yours truly,
PF. W. SOUTHARD.

Judge C. V. Keeler.

Winamac, Ind.,
Feb. 2, 1908.

While judging the great Kansas
City Show, January 14th to 18th,
I had the pleasure of visiting the
immense Crystal White Orpington
Farm, owned by Mr. Ernest Kel-
lerstrass. I have always been
interested in White Orpingtons
ever since they have first been
written of in England’s poultry
papers. I found at the Farm
acres and acres of White Orping-
tons, all hardy, hustling, happy
birds of the correct Orpington
type—not Plymouth, Wyandotte,
or Cochin type, but the correct
Orpington type. I had the pleas-
ure of judging these “Crystal”
White Orpingtons at Kansas City
last year, 1907. Saw Mr. Keller-
strass’ exhibit this year, both at
Kansas City and Chicago. Could
there compare them closely with
‘the best Buffs and Blacks in the

country in type. They had the
Buffs beaten and were the equal of
the Blacks. I saw at the Farm
hundreds and hundreds of prize
winners, fit for the best shows in
America, also the winners at all
the large shows in America; and
the Crystal Palace (England)
winners were there also, and
about 4,300 of their relations, well
housed in comfortable buildings,
while in the brooder house were
hundreds of little chicks, right
in the middle of January. Mr.
Kellerstrass has a_ thoroughly
equipped poultry farm. Were f
to go into White Orpingtons to-
day I should look no further, but
would send my order to Mr. Kel-
lerstrass, and am sure I could get
the best in the world, and at rea-
sonable prices, quality considered.
I look forward to my visit to
Kansas City next year, and of
course, hope to pay the “Crystal”
White Orpington farm a visit.

Very truly yours,
CHAS. V. KEELER.

The Bonham Poultry Association.

Bonham, Tex.,
Dec. 16, 1907.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass,
Kansas City, Mo.

My Dear Sir:—Cockerel and
pullet, with extra hen, arrived in
fine condition. They were placed
in the show room the day after
their arrival and covered them-
selves with honors, winning first
cockerel, first pullet and second
hen. We are well pleased with
the fine quality of your birds and
your honest methods of business.

Respectfully yours,
M’KEE BLAIR.

We get letters like the above
almost daily.

86 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

(From Reliable Poultry Journal, Quincy, IIl.,
February, 1908.)

Single-Comb White Orpingtons.

Mr. Ernest Kellerstrass, Kan-
sas City, Mo., made another won-
derful cleaning on S. C. White
Orpingtons, as follows: Cocks,
first, second and third; hens, first,
second, third and fourth; cock-

-erels, first, second, fourth and

fifth; pullets, first, second, third
and fifth. He is the originator of
the Crystal strain of this variety
and his Whites have been success-
ful at the leading shows of Amer-
ica and England. They are equal
in size to the large Buffs and
Blacks, and are pure white in
color. The first White Ovrping-
ton cockerel at Chicago was also
the first cockerel at Madison
Square Garden, N. Y., last De-
cember. At Chicago he was
awarded the sweepstakes for the
best. bird in the show—a great
honor for a breed so recently in-
troduced as the White Orpington.
The third cock at Madison Square
was the first winner at Chicago.
Myr. Kellerstrass has 4,000 Single-
Comb White Orpingtons for sale,
and will make sixteen pens to
supply eggs for hatching. His
birds are of extra choice quality
and they will please discrimin-
ating custcmers.

(Editorial taken from January Reliable Poultry
Journal, Quincy, Ill )

DEVELOPING THE BUSINESS.

We offer no apology to our
readers for publishing in this 1s-
sue. Of UR. ey J.an exvended = 1e-
port of the: results obtained by
seventy-two of the eighty-four
customers (all that replied to our
letters of inquiry)- who last sea-
son paid Kellerstrass Farm, Kan-
sas City, Mo., two. dollars apiece
for 1,024 hatching eggs.

We realize, perhaps as well as
anybody else, that this report is
a big free advertisement for Mr.
Kellerstrass, but we are con-
fronted by the thought that he is
entitled to it on account of what
he has done and is doing for poul-
try culture, also by the fact that
he is deserving of favorable pub-
Leity as a reward for the manner
in which he treated these eggs-
for-hatching customers.

But our chief reason for pub-
lishing this series of articles was
not to please Mr. Kellerstvass—
though we are glad to do that.
The main object was threefold:
First, we wished to show, by Mr.
Kellerstrass’ experience, what
CAN BE DONE in the standard-
bred poultry business; second, we
were glad of this opportunity to
present in these columns RE-
LIABLE and wnstructive DATA
about the _ eggs-for- hatching
branch of the poultry industry;
third, we especially desired to use
this case as an illustration of how
the standard-bred poultry busi-
ness can be developed and rapidly
extended by FAIR TREATMENT
of customers who buy valuable
eggs for hatching and high-priced
fowls for breeding. purvoses.

It isn’t often that a case of this
kind is placed in an editor’s hands
with full permission to dig in and
find out all he wishes to know
about hatching results, about the
quality of the chicks obtained;
about the methods employed in
filling and refilling orders, in sat-
isfying displeased customer's, etc.,
etc. Possibly there are persons
who will entertain the opinion |
that Mr. Kellerstrass took special
pons im handling this Ww ior
transaction. We believe that he
did—that he did so on account
of the high quality of the. eggs
sold and. the top prices he re-
ceived for them, but we do not
believe for one moment that in
handling the fowls that laid these
eggs or in filing the orders or in
striving to satisfy every reason-.
able customer, Mr. Kellerstrass

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had any idea of publishing the
facts or of allowing them to be

published. We know that such .

was not the case.

By referring to his printed mat-
ter we learned that Mr. Keller-
strass had guaranteed a fair per-
centage of fertility in these
high-priced eggs; therefore in
treating his customers wells on
that point he did no more than
he had agreed to do. But we
ave. glad. to say iw is shown. by
letters we received direct from
his customers that he “made
good” not only cheerfully, but
promptly and liberally.

Mr. Kellerstrass’ experience and
that of seventy-two of the eighty-
four of his customers who replied
to our letters, asking for results
they obtained from the two-dollar-
apiece eggs, represent a fair test

of the practice of selling eggs for

hatching to be shipped by express
to all pornis. of the country. It
was mainly for this reason that
we first took an interest in the
matter, but the case developed
into the larger problem of what
can be done in the sale of high-
priced eggs for hatching, of how
well the purchasers of such eggs
can do and of how customers
should be treated in order to give
them their “money’s worth” and
thus win valuable business friend-
ship.

The most important lesson and
fact connected with this note-
worthy example is, what such
treatment of customers means to
the poultry industry! If all voul-
trymen who sell eggs for hatch-
ing were to take as much pains
to benefit and satisfy their cus-
tomers as did the proprietor of
Kellerstrass Farm, this important
branch of the poultry business
would expand. and prosper as
never before.

And the same is true of the
sale of breeding stock. If a cus-
tomer: is farrly treated and does
well, he is certain to tell. his
friends and neighbors about it,
with the result that new. cus-

tomers are created.. On the con-
trary, if the jerst eustomer is
cheated and abused, he is very
liable to .quit im disgust, doing
so sooner or later, and by telling
others of his loss and grievance
he is certain to destroy confidence
in the poultry business and thus
prevent trade expansion.

By his way of treating cus-
tomers. fawly,. to the extent of
giving them full value for their
Gal 2—Fidelity-6354-Kellersts-w8
money, Mr. Kellerstrass has
started scores of interested per-
sons in the poultry business—to
the benefit of all of us who are
connected with the industry. The
moral is plain; the results im-
portant and far-reaching.
(Reliable Poultry Journal, Quincy,

Ill., Feb., 1908.)

(American Poultry Journal, Chicago, III.

THE KELLERSTRASS FARM.
A Visit to the Home of Ernest
Kellerstrass, Kansas City,
Mo., the Originator of
‘Crystal’? White
Orpingtons.

The accompanying illustration
wil give the reader but a very
faint idea of the magnitude and
magnificence of the home of the
“Crystal” White Orpingtons, and
it it beyond the power of our pen
to do justice to this farm in writ-
ing about same. To fully realize
what Mr. Kellerstrass is accom-
plishing it is necessary to pay him
a visit, and right here we wish to
assure our readers that they will
one and all find a hearty welcome
awaiting them should opportun-

ity offer them a chance to pay a

visit to Kansas City and to the
home of “Crystal” White Orping-
tons.

This farm is located about eight
miles from the heart of Kansas
City and can be reached by elec-
wie cor. The’ farm “consists: of
140 acres and is entirely devoted

88 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

to the production of White Orp-
ington fowls. The ground is well
adapted to the raising of chickens,
as it is high and rolling, therefore
is dry all seasons of the year.
Forty acres of the farm is in
orchard and here is located the
colony houses, and the shade pro-
vided by the fruit trees makes an
ideal summer home for the young
stock. The whole farm is seeded
to blue grass and this affords
magnificent range for the stock.

iAt the time of our visit the
15th of last month, Mr. Keller-
strass informed us that he had
4,500 head of Orpingtons on the
farm, and offered to go through
and count them, but we declined
and said we would take his word
FOU:

We were agreeably surprised at
the large number of really fine
specimens of White Orpingtons
we found here, as we were under
the impression that Mr. Keller-
strass had only a comparatively
few really choice birds, but here
we found not dozens but hundreds
of them. In fact, they had been
culled so closely that there was
not a really poor specimen in the
whole flock, or, more properly
speaking, flocks, for they were
divided into flocks of about fifty,
except in the larger houses and
yards located in the orchard,
which contained large numbers.

One of the main drawbacks in
former years with White Orping-
tons was the brass in the plum-
age, but here we found this prac-
tically eliminated, and we readily
understood why the birds raised
on this farm are called “Crystal”
White Orpingtons. Our readers
do not want to get the idea that
chicken raising is a “fad” with
Mr. Kellerstrass, for it is not. It
is a plain business proposition
with him and he is using business
methods in conducting same, and
is devoting his entire time and
attention to it. Hvery detail has
his personal supervision.

Dowt fail to write the Keller-
strass Farm, R. F. D. 1, Kansas

City, Mo., for further informa-
tion, and mention American Poul-
try Journal.

WON OVER 90 PER CENT OF

ALL PRIZES THAT WERE
OFFERED.

A Day With Kellerstrass, the
Man That Put White Orp-
ingtons on the Map.

There are a few men that can
read the future and profit by it;
there are several others that hang
onto the tail of the kite and only
drift with the tide, and constantly
find fault with those who are pro-
gressive enough to do things that
start the machinery of some big
enterprise im motion.

The writer has always cast in
his lot with the hve ones ae
man can lower himself so much
in my estimation as telling what
a great man he has been. I could
always get that information from
the headstones, but I never knew
a corporation of business men to
go to the graveyard to find a man
to boost their business.

Perhaps I am _ getting away
from my story, but what’s the
odds! I had this thing on my
mind, and I feel better now that
I have told it to you.

I have watched the rise of a
good many breeds of fowls, and,
in fairness to all, I have witnessed
the fall of a few. I have known
specialty clubs to take up a new
breed and make it popular, but
I never knew one of them to take
up a “has been’ and resurrect it.
They claim the game is not worth
the. candle. But is it? Well, I
guess yes.

You can’t make a good breed
out of a poor one, no matter how
well you advertse it, but you can
take a good breed that has been
neglected and make it popular
again. This fact has been dem-
onstrated to the satisfaction of
the poultrymen of this country
to a certainty.

OF RAISING POULTRY. 89

When Ernest Kellerstrass, of
Kansas City, Missouri, decided to
go into the poultry business on @
big scale, he tested a number of
the leading varieties, keeping a
careful record of all their good
and bad features, weighing one
breed or variety against the other,
being absolutely unbiased as to
which, under normal conditions,
would give on his farm tie best
results, and when he found the
White Orpingtons to be the one
breed that gave the best financial
results, he decided to breed them
and give them the place in the
fancy that his judgment told him
they should occupy.

His friends argued against this,
telling him the variety was not,
nor could it be made, popular;
that other varieties of this popu-
lar breed were ahead of it, and
had so far outdistanced them in
the race for public favor that to
boon. the Whites was a_ losing
game.

This would have discouraged
many men, but it only whetted
Myr. Kellerstrass’ ambition to show
the world what could be done with
a strictly good fowl .regardless of
its popularity. And when he did
start, he started right.

There was not a yard of Wiutes
in America or England that con-
tained real quality that was not
drained of its cream before the
breeders woke up to the fact that
one of the wisest heads that ever
tackled the poultry game was out
for blood.

He had the farm, he knew the
breed, he believed in their future
as a fancy breed, and he knew
their worth as a commercial fowl.

Before any of the Orpington
breeders of note were aware of
Myr. Kellerstrass’ ideas, he had
over 5,000 White Orpingtons on
his farm and was producing more
as fast as Cypher incubators and
brooders would deliver the goods.

He went into the big shows of
America, starting in at Kansas
City; from there to Jamestown
Exposition, then St. Louis, Mis-

sourt, State Show; from there to
New York, then back to Kansas
City; from there to Chicago.

In all of these shows, and in
competition with the best in
America, as well as the latest 1m-
ported birds, he won more.than
90 per cent of all the prizes that
were offered, and asked and re-
cewed the highest prices for this
now popular variety that were
ever paid for them in this coun-
try or Hurope. In fact, he put a
breed on the map and maintained
them there.

While at Kansas City in Jan-
uary, the writer visited Mr. Kel-
lerstrass’ farm and with him
looked over what we believe to be
the best and largest collection of
White Orpingtons owned by any
one man in the world—more than
4,700 White Orpingtons on one
farm and there to. count. Not
chicks, but matured birds of the
highest quality. Great big, lusty,
deep-bodied birds, that have made
the Orpington the most popular
fowl ever introduced from the
British. Isle.

In shape and color, there is but
little fault to find with the Keller-
strass birds. The _ illustrations
run in the Inland Poultry Journal
the past few months tell the tale.

As to buildings and equipments,
there are but few plants in Amer-
ica better adapted to the breeding
of fowls. The land was designed
by nature for this purpose. (See
illustrations of farm.) The
houses were built for business and
not for show. The open front
house is the only one considered
—in fact, this is the house
adopted by nearly all the popular
fanciers as well as market poul-
try raisers.

Both artificial and natural meth-
ods are used to produce their show
birds.

The incubator and _ brooder
house, while not elaborate, is one
of the best I have seen; in fact,
the entire plant shows that good,
sound judgment was used in the

90 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

location of every yard and build-
ing.

While it ts well known that Mr.
Kellerstrvass is a man of wealth,
it is not generally known that he
and his son are the hardest work-
ers on the farm. When Mr. Kel-
lerstrass was first pointed out to
me in the show room, with a pair
of overalls and jwmper on, busy
cleaning out coops, I said, “My
money backs that man as a win-
ner in any undertaking that he is
associated with.”

When a number of so-called ex-
perts applied for a job as manager
of his plant, he said: “TI am look-
mg for men to work; I can do
all the managing that is necessary
on my farm.”

Mr. Kellerstrass is today the
world’s headquarters for White

sie
ERNEST KWELLERSTRASS

Orpingtons. He has the best, as
has been proven in the strongest
shows in America. He knows
quality and he knows its value.
He is strictly reliable and is today
doing more for Orpingtons than
all the breeders in this cowntry
combined.

We guarantee the man and his
birds, and we only wish we had a
few more like him in the business.
They are the kind of poultrymen
that make it possible for the In-
land and other high-class journals
to give their readers the quality
in poultry literature that is mak-
ing the editors of all other lve
stock journals “sit up and take
notice.”

THEO. HEWES,
Editor Inland Poultry Journal.

KANSAS CITY MD.

OF RAISING POULTRY.

NOTICE

If you will send four cents in stamps to pay postage to
the Kellerstrass Farm, Kansas City, Mo., you will receive
their illustrated Catalogue. It contains pictures of the high-
est priced birds in the world; also, illustrations and pictures of
their brood and nursery yards, buildings and runways of
various descriptions; in fact, it gives you an illustration of
the World’s Greatest Poultry Plant, and shows you a good
many general views of the farm and buildings. It also gives
prices of the stock they have for sale.

91

92 THE KELLERSTRASS WAY

IMPORTANT

Remember, that I am in the Poultry Business, and a person to make a
success in the Poultry Business has to be out working with his chickens and
look after them, and that is what I do. It keeps me busy, so don’t expect me
to personally answer your letter. I have tried to give you all the informa-
tion I can in this book. I have received as high as six hundred letters in one
day and the majority of them found their way into the waste-basket, because
it is impossible for me to answer them personally. By the time I answer the
letters of people who want to buy stock and eggs and tend to my chickens
I have usually put in from sixteen to eighteen hours a day. So don't
expect a personal answer to your letter unless it is of some importance.

Yours truly,
ERNEST KELLERSTRASS.

OF RAISING POULTRY. 93

FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READERS of this book J here-
with give you the names and addresses of AMERICAN POULTRY ASSO-

CIATION JUDGES. If you contemplate holding a show, by all means
engage an AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION JUDGE, as tt will
give your show so much better standing, and whatever decision they make

is official and can be relied upon.

American Poultry Association Judges —(General)

A. EH. Kummer, Butler, Pa.

Ira C. Keller, Prospect, Ohio.
Charles V. Keeler, Winamac, Ind.
ieee ean olive Eli: sSin€:
D. J. Lambert, Apponaug, R. I.
S. B. Lane, Spiceland, Ind.

J. W. Mulinix, elcee Ohio.

S. B. Mills, Ames, a.

Jaavala Minshall, Brantford, Ont.,
FEF. J. Marshall, College Park, Ga.
Ben S. Myers, Crawfordsville, Ind.

B. W. Mosher, Johnstown, N. Y.

J. S. Mertens, St. Louis, Mo.

Benjamin H. McCracken, Martinsville, Ind.
William McNeil, London, Ont.

Charles McClave, New London, Ohio.

O. L. McCord, Danville, 111.

T. EF. McGrew, Scranton, Pa.

George H. Northrup, Raceville, N. Y.
David A. Nichols, Shelton, Conn.

Thomas Ward Norris, Blauvelt, N. Y.
Richard Oke, London, Ont.

D. M. Owens, Athens, Tenn.

Calvin Ott, Prophetstown, Ill.

George Purdue, Hast Orange, N. J.

A. F. Pierce, Winchester, N. H

Miller Purvis, Peotone, [1l.

H. J. Quilhot, Johnstown, N. Y.

E. G. Roberts, Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Cook. Rockenstyre, Albany, N. Y.

T. Karrer Rackham, Hast Orange, N. J.
EK. W. Rankin, Topeka, Kan.

Charles H. Rhodes, Topeka, Kan.

W. S. Russell, Ottumwa, Ia.

Thomas F. Rigg, Iowa Falls, Ia.

J. N. Rusmisel, Stafford, Kan.

Oh ea Smith, Copiague, Long Island,

H. B. Savage, Belton, Tex.

F. C. Shepherd, Toledo, Ohio.

Eugene Sites, Hiyria, Ohio.

W. J. Stanton, New York, N. Y.

ae Scudder, Glen Head, Long Island,

Henry P. Schwab, Irondequoit, N. Y.
Arthur O. Schilling, Rochester, N. Y.
Thomas W. Southard, Kansas City, Mo.
Fred #. Smith, Craig, Mo.
Franklane lL. Sewell, Buchanan, Mich.
Daniel P. Shove, Fall River, Mass.

F. H. Shellabarger, West Liberty, Ia.
Frank L. Shaw, Indianapolis, Ind.

A. B. Shaner, Lanark, I11.

W. E. Stanfield, Chicago, [IIll.

U. J. Shanklin, Anamosa, Ia.
Rowland Story, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Henry Trafford, Chenango Forks, N. Y.
Adam Thompson, Amity, Mo.

Frank W. Travis, Jackson, Mich.
James Tucker, Concord, Mich.

W. Theo. Wittman, Allentown, Pa.
George W. Webb, Rochester, INGY::
Philander Williams, Randolph, Mass.
J. C. Williams, Los Angeles, Cal.
William M. Wise, Lansing, Mich.
James W. Whitney, Long Beach, Cal.
W. W. Zike, Morristown, Ind.

F. B. Zimmer, Gloversville, N. Y.

C. W. Zinner, Chicago, Ill.

Canada.

J. J. Atherton, Emporia, Kan.

J. E. Bennett, Toronto, Ont.

S. Butterfield, Windsor, Ont.

W. W. Browning, Ogden, Utah.

T. L. Bayne, Knoxville, Tenn.

M. M. Barger, Mt. Gilead, Ohio.
William EY Brace, Victor, N.Y.
George H. Burgott, Lawton Station, N. Y.
W. W. Babcock, Bath, NEE

J. Y. Bicknell, Buffalo, N. Y.

E. C. Branch, Lee’s Summit, Mo.

H. S. Ball, Shrewsbury. Mass.
George O. Brown, Baltimore, Md.

O. Prescott Bennett, Washington, Ill.
Loring Brown, Smyrna, Ga.

Henry Berrar, San Jose, Cal.
Newton Cosh, Port Dover, Ont.

Harry H. Collier, Tacoma, Wash.
Charles E. Cram, Carey, Ohio.

S. T. Campbell, Mansfield, Oe:

F. W. Corey, Ossinning

Thomas M. Campbell, AVE Ind.
J. F. Crangle, Simsbury, Conn.
Wetherell H. Card, Manchester, Conn.
L. N. Cobbledick, Oakland, Cal.
Charles T. Corman, Carlisle, Pa.
James Corfman, Leipsic, Ohio.

H. H. Coburn, Memphis, Mich.

H. B. Donovan, Toronto, Ont.
Elmer Dixon, Oregon City, Ore.

W. C. Denny, Rochester, N. Y.

Jj. H. Drevenstadt, Red’ Bank, N- di:
Maurice F. Delano, Vineyard Haven, Mass.
John Dudley, Emporia, Kan.

H. A. Emmel, Evans City, Pa.
George Ewald, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cc. A. Emery, Carthage, Mo.

W. C. Ellison, Minneanolis, Minn.

©. Jj. Maston, Whiting fa.

James J. Elliott, Onawa, Ta.

M. S. Fite, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Phil Feil, Canal Dover, Ohio.
Thomas Sg. Falkner, Tiffin, Ohio.

I. K. Felch, Natick, Mass.

Wie Re Fishel, Hope, Ind.

Prof. W. R. Graham, Guelph, Canada.
Jee Granules Chippewa Lake, Ohio.
Cais: Greene, New Brighton, N. Y.
Frank W. Gaylor, White Plains, N. Y.
M. S. Gardner, Auburn, N. Y.

W. R. Graves, Southboro, Mass.

O. P. Greer, Bourbon, Ind.

Reese V. Hicks, Madisonville, Tenn.
KF. W. Hitcheock, Oklahoma City, Okla.
G. R. Haswell, Circleville. Ohio.

1s di, Labo Hast Akron, Orie.

Gs 1B Howell, Elmira, N.

George D. Holden, ee Minn.
D. E. Hale, Wayzata, Minn.

YA OF Hawkins, Lancaster, Mass.
Theodore Hewes, Indianapolis, Ind.
George A. Heyl, ‘Washington, Til.
Frank Heck, Chicago, 111.

D. T. Heimlich, Jacksonville, Ill.
Earl Hemenway, South Haven, Mich.
John D. Jaquins, Watervliet, N. Y.

J. S. Jeffrey, West Raleigh, N. C.
R. E. Jones, Paducah, Ky.

W. H. Jones, McKittrick, Cal.

Leading Poultry Journals

For the convenience of readers of this book I give herewith a list of
the leading poultry journals published in America, with their addresses.

Number Size Price
of of per

Pages Page Year
American Poultty -vdvocate: Syracuse NY... 02.5. 44 to 8&8 9x12 $0.50
AASoeAin J Oulicn Ioueirmeil, (Clincaers, Illes soedoeseso 4" 48 to 166 9x12 .50
Aimenrtcam Pomtry, World, Bitiilon Nia Ve ass: se ne 7 Osto el42 9x12 0)
Canadian Poultry Review. Donombo, Onta. 08.408 48 to 72 9x12 65
COnminectcial eowillnnc) Miler seullss) IMS 5 oseceoeo eh bomue s 36 to 64 8xlly% 50
Fanciers: Monthly. Sam losep@allcs es oe se ce 32 to 48 9x12 js)
Panna Poultry 15 OStom, WlaSS tect ee ead weaker ct 16 to 40 Pixd5 90
Seiler, INA WWasiniaetom, ID (Cy eis ee ie 20 to 48 10%x13% .50
Game Panciers” Journal Battle Creek, Mich......... 16 to 20 8x12 .50
Dnclastimowus Elem Knoxville Weim ois oe. ey oe 40 to 80 8x11% .50
Inland eoultry Jourmal wi natd ma polis sande oer 5s. - 48 to 100 8%xll% .50
Live Stock inibtnes Woes Amgeles (alin Wye oe, 40 to 60 8%xlly% .50
Northwest Potutieymname Salem, Ore. 0.0.0... 6. .8.; SZ ton W/4, 9x12 50
Prete Pancterm Les mercies “Cali arse hoe ee. $2) to J04 9x12 50
Pactice rk oulerynianysSearnles Wasis.2e shee ies 06 oe 28 to 36 9x1l% 50
Petaluma :Poultry Jourtal, Revalama,(Cal. o).........°24 tor 36, Wy xileeZ 50
Potithy, Peotone: vk tea re wen vmasatt sie ee Pen us atn tonke 32 to 40 10%x1l4% #1.00
Poultry Culture, ope lkawaWanisereee Mel iy lee aoe 32. tor SZ 9x12 $0.25
Poultey Gazette, eimcolim: Neb... hein ine nk oe 32 to 74 9x12 50
Poultry. Gazette. Clay Centeme Nee jos. oo) 2 se 8 32 es. 7/4 9x12 50
BRoultiy gelienald iS tome an Viettinaipaeye te eae ste oe 36 to 60 9x12 .90
Powlittey ehusb elma iny Aen cari tavelll eee Nene ah ee eee Low how 32 Oxia: .50
Poultry. items ellens villa ay cee wee arenes he nea AS to 142 9x12 50
Poultry: Weeper -Ominc yar ee cure ou el. 2 one 32 tO «AZ 9x11% .50
Poultry: Tibune, Mictmanvel\totrtss Wi ria ences 40 to 100 9x12 50
Powliry Sticcess,, Spite dmetades @laiton nein. 5). 0 ee 76 to 164 9x12 .50
Rehable Powltiy jroutciaal © nici: all eee ey a aleve 76 to 164 9x12 .50
Souther: Fameter ae wislcmibae Ga gee eee ee eg ee ene 44 to 60 8x12 1.00
Southern Poulinymianve alliase tiheswals sis a en. See ' 36 to .44 9x12 50
Somuenn Poultry Voumial Dallas. oxas ays ans. A) to {68 , StAxlltA eee
Southern Poultry Macazime, Nashville, Menn:.) 220. 16sto, 32 9x12 .50
Successful Poultry Journal, Chicago, Ill............. 36 tov120 9x12 2.)
Western Poultry Journal, Cedar Rapids, Lowa... -..-- 32 to “96 9x12 50

Western Poultry WosldiWemver (Colo. see eee eee 52 to 40 8x12 50e

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