Third annual catalogue of the Cyphers Incubator Co . breed stock givesweak-germed eggs, which, in turn, give poorhatches and weak chicks. Scientific feeding can-not overcome the tendency of unscientific breed-ing. In the production of eggs for broilers, wemust pay extra attention to the breeders. Thechief quality wanted is vigor and strength. Thebroiler and its digestive organs must be sound orit will not stand the strain. The forcing of thebroiler is abnormal at the best, and it musthave vigor or it will break down. It is possible,by careful selection and breeding, and by sci-entific feeding,
Third annual catalogue of the Cyphers Incubator Co . breed stock givesweak-germed eggs, which, in turn, give poorhatches and weak chicks. Scientific feeding can-not overcome the tendency of unscientific breed-ing. In the production of eggs for broilers, wemust pay extra attention to the breeders. Thechief quality wanted is vigor and strength. Thebroiler and its digestive organs must be sound orit will not stand the strain. The forcing of thebroiler is abnormal at the best, and it musthave vigor or it will break down. It is possible,by careful selection and breeding, and by sci-entific feeding, to double the number of eggswhich the average hen will lay, or to double theweight of broilers in a given time that may behatched from her eggs. Never buy mongrel stock, for no man is justi-fied in raising mongrel poultry. It is the samewith poultry as with horses, or cattle, or sheep,or hogs—the most money is to be made inproducing thoroughbred stock. It takes no morehouse or yard room, no more feed, no more time 6 THE CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANYS PLANT. D. L. Sc \V. R. R. TRACK IN THE FOREGROUND. MR. CYPHERS RESIDENCE AT THE LEFT. 30O-FOOT BROODER HOUSE AT THE RKiHT. or labor to raise one or ten hundred pure-bloodedfowls than it does to raise an equal number ofmongrels, but the value of the product in onecase ranges from twice to several times as muchas in the other, according to your skill as abreeder and the market you reach. In this day of over-production what is wantedin many lines of effort is quality, not quantityalone. We have too much quantity and notenough quality. There is a premium in everymarket on quality, and that premium is nine-teuths profit. So we advise breeding pure-bloodedfowls, and be sure that they have the size andvigor. If a fowl is not forced for a broiler, but al-lowed to make a slow and steady growth on freerange, the constitution is improved, and many ofthe effects of inbreeding are overcome ; but for-e
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