FANCY FOWLS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2635, 19 June 1877, Page 2

FANCY FOWLS.

, A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer gives the following advice in regard to buying fancy breeds of poultry;, Get the best every-time; it don't pay to get cheap stock —it is the dearest in the end. I know, for I tried on several occasions. Once I paid a dollar and a half for a sitting of light Brahma eggs, and they were the dearest eggs I bought. Five of them hatched, two.of them were.as black as tbe ace of spades, and of the remaining three there, was not one first-class chicken. I sold the lot for fiv,e cent 3 a pound, live weight, and was glad to get rid of them at that price. At another time I sent some money to a man who advertised •• high-class " dark Brahmas for sale at four dollars a trio. Dark Brahmas they might have been, but they were certainly " poor relations." Early one morning I stole to my hennery with my " little hatchet," and' we had a Brahma pie for dinner. I was reckless by that time, and the next day deliberately sent $1516 on eminent poultry breeder for a. pair of light Brahmas. I got them, too, and they were beauties. Since then I have paid high prices for good fowls, and have ne rer regretted it. Poultry breeders who have any reputation to lose cannot afford to send out inferior fowls or eggs, and they cannot afford to se.l good stock for half price.