o THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG FRIDAY, DECEMBER 35, 1924. OUR DAILY JOB IS SERVICE Whether the order be large or small it will be handled carefully and cheerfully. It's the service that counts. ALLAN LUMBER CO. Victoria Street. 'Phone 1042. / - FOR SALE Solid Brick House on Stone Foundation 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms, lights, gas, 8 piece bath, furnace, floor plugs, wide entrance, porch, good cellar, garage---- good, deep lot with fruit taces--Stuart Street. For information please call at office. I left off teaching high school nearly twenty years ago, when my hobby, White Wyandottes, develop- ed into a real business, which now earns thousands of dollars for us every year. I now have ten men busy on my farm, and seven stemographers In the office. I now have 25,000 customers in the United States alone, and have a big business in every civilized country in the world, and several thousand customers here in my na- tive Dominion of Canadh. There are between ~ 7,000 and 8,000 White | Wyandottes on the farm now. Men who ought to know tell me that in the last twenty years I have built up perhaps the most profitable and largest fancy-poultry business The White Wyandotte King Tells Interesting Story By the Hon. J. 8. Martin, Ontario's Minister of Agriculture, as Told to Charles C. Nixon of Toronto in Farm and Farmside. FAT + gratifying that the keeping of White Wyandottes became my main oceu- pation. Shortly before this decision I had quit high-school teaching and was fn the piano business with my two brothers, The White Wyandottes took me ahead so fast that I sold out my interests in the piano business to devote all of my time to poultry and the farm. When 1 began breeding White Wyandottes I obtained the very choicest stock from. several of the leading strains that it was possible for me to get. I was compelled to do this because I could not find any one strain having all tne qualifica- tions that I wanted. Tt pays to get only the best. One gtrain would ex- cel in shape, another=in color, an- other in head points; but they all excelled in utility qualities. 1 -de- | hibition qualities, splendid color, | good shape, neat head points, and plenty of size. | The following season I mated her |to a fine, vigorous cockerel bred { from a female with a record of 205 | eggs. 'This cockerel also had fine | exhibition qualities, and was good | enough to win in keen competition. I addition to this he gave wonder- ful fertility, eggs from his pen run- {ning from 90 per cent. to 95 per |Wiy | cent. tertile, Thus was my Dorcas line developed. I demand of the femals in my | Dorcas breeding .pens, first, vigor {and stamina; second, a good egg re- { cord; third, exhibition qualities. {The male birds must have a fine, | sturdy, vigorous appearance, with a i record of fertility back of them, and | bred from females with an egg Te- cord of 200 eggs or better. They must have neat Heads, good eye color, stay white color, good bone, and as good Wyandotte type as pos- sible. . ------ " Clean Sweep at Fairs, You know of my winnings at the New York State Fair over the past | seventeen years, where I have swept | everything year -after year. This is SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Marachino Cherries Dpped in pure Milk Chocolate. 49c a lb. cided that it would be unwise to use the greatest of all the early Ameri- a strain that was not strong in util- | can shows, and is famous for having ity qualities, no matter how strong | the finest exhibition poultry build- M. B. TRUMPOUR The Superior Ice Cream and Phone 704 or 2072w . . . 270 PRINCESS STREET See Us When In Need Of Lamps We are distributors for : EDISON MAZDA LAMPS HALLIDAY ELECTRIC CO. PHONE 04. CORNER KING AND PRINCESS STS. BRICK, STONE, PLASTERING AND TILE SETTING DOUGLAS & McILQUHAM CONTRACTORS JOBBING WORK A SPECIALTY. 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It lies on Silver Lake, skirting the J village of Port Dover, Ontario, Can- ada. This farm and business are the realization of the ambition of my lite. My dreams have come true even better than I had planned. When I was teaching in the high school, 1 used to build air castles, and plan and hope; but I never real- ly thought my dreams would come so true as they have. 1 have capa- city for this work because I love it; and it is capacity for wokk that the successful poultryman needs, for to go to the top with poultry you must have more kinds of equipment and ability than is required in most other lines. The programme that has made it possible for the business to succeed is this: 1 first had to have the poultry, and then constantly to breed it better, while telfing the world about it via the poultry shows and the advertis- ing columns and catalogues. Love of Chickens. Love of the chicken business was no doubt bred in me. I have been told how my great-grandmother used to take me with her to the poultry- yard when she me to toddle by h scarf hope that I would love to feed the hens when she was gone. Being raised 'on a farm and al- ways a fancier means something in the development - of the poultry breeder. Following your natural bent helps any man, All my life I have stuck to the thing I liked best. 1 think it pays ayyone to do that. Thirty years ago I recall having my first purebred poultry--some Light Brahmas. In 1886 my father bought for me a trio of Barred Rocks, and I raised this breed for weventeen years, just as a hobby on the home farm. But I made no business of selling. Some time after taking up the Barred Rocks, I obtained the White- Faced Black Spanish and kept them for two years, adding to them the 'White Leghorns, which I kept for five years. White Coching I kept during 1891-1892; and about this time I had Brown Leghorns also. My White Leghorns were of the large type that laid big eggs. I de- veloped this flock all through one hen that produced the best eggs, from which I was able the show quality. These strains I gradually combined into a new one, and I called it the "Regal" strain-- the success of which, along both fancy and utility lines, has become history. I was very fortunate in obtaining ; my foundation stock to get several , hens almost ideal in shape and color, at least in those days. These hens I bred to a quick-maturing cockerel of an excellent heavy-laying strain. , The pullets from this mating 1 bred i to the grand old cock bird, Regal I, la first-prize Ontario. winner. This | bird proved to be a wonderful breed- |er, and he stamped his excellence {on the whole flock. | wide, full-breasted, and broad in | every section, He had a flery-red | eye and extra good head points. | - Cause of His Success. It is to the fine breeding qualities of Regal I that I feel a great share of my success is due. He was plac- ed in the breeding pen in December, ! snd the eggs were very firtile. From this mating a number of early chicks were hatched, and when the Do- minion Exhibition at Toronto came on the latter end of August the cockerels and the pullets were full grown, and the pullets laying. The cockerel that headed this pen was without a rival in a class of thirty. ' His plumage had a dazzling white- | ness that made other birds look | yellow. I named him Regal IIL | this show I was awarded the diploma and medal for best display, and since pinas time the name of Regal has be- come a familiar name to bréeders of White Wyandottes. i I have throughout my work clung to my ideal of a stylish, attractive, i cobby bird with plenty of size, but not overdone in any way. Many judges and breeders have told me | they can pick out birds of Regal 'breeding no matter where they see them, They are the sensible type, combining the useful and the beau- tiful. I have studiously avoided all fads--fads for the short body and the small bird, going all for color {and size and to disregard shape, {which fad was entirely wrong, as shape should be the outstanding characteristic of a good Wyandotte. Some years ago, finding that there was a demand for bred-to-lay stock, I decided to make use of the trap nest to get records of my best layers, and to begin systematic work along this line, In my second year's work I suc- 'ceeded In gettidg a wonderful re- cord from an exhibition pullet. . She was hatched in February and began laying early in the fall. In her first year's laying she made a splen- did record of 241 eggs. This female I named Dorcas, and decided to make use of her to build up a flock of heavy layers. She had many other qualities besides being a good layer. She had all-round good ex- the nineties, before I finally decided E upon White Wyandottes, as best adapted to my purposes, I kept some Golden Wyandottes and some White Minorcas.' It was the fine He was a won- | | derfully vigorous bird, standing very | At | ing in the United States, The ex- Hl | hibits are large and competition | very keen. To win at this show you | must get your chicks out in January | and February. It is a great test for vigor, stamina, and winter egg pro- duction, You will notice from my cata- | logues that my motto has always been "A square deal to everyone," {'because I do not want a single dol- lar of any man's money without giv- { ing him full value in return. I make 1 | my catalogues of a practical, helpful i nature, and in them give away all | | my secrets on how to breed, feed, | and condition, and how to exhibit. | Years ago I established the policy exhibitions, mating up a goodly number of pens and from all these pens. One of my cus- tomers by purchasing a setting of eggs hatched the first prize cock at Madison Square Garden, a bird worth at least $500. 1 have found that this policy has | increased my business from year to year, and my customers, need new blood. Thus have I built a profitable ways liked best to do. YOUTHFUL GARMENT The slightly circular flounce of seal fur makes a distinctive trim- ming for this coat of black corded silk lined with red crepe de chine. There is a flare to the ouffs as. well and a smart upstanding collar of the fur which tends to keep the lines youthfal. HOWE ISLAND BAZAAR. The Farmers Busy Getting in Their Stocks. Howe Island, Dec. 3.--The bazaar in Gananoque last week, was well patronized by the younger set from here. They report an excellent time at their evening performances. The light fall of snow is very beneficial to the residents enabling them to , draw coal and gét out of keeping my winners at the big} selling eggs 1 { knowing | that I gave them a square deal, come | back year after year whenever they | business out of the thing I have al- Candy Shop 204 PRINCESS STREET "The Home of Good Sweets" Re-Adjustment "SALE WILL MEAN A SAVING FOR YOU. COME AND SECURE YOUR SHARE OF THE MANY BARGAINS. - - - Louis Abramson's 336 Princess Street 'Phone 1098. ~r * Were At Poultry Fairs. Bell Rock, Dec. 3.--Several from here attended the poultry fairs at Napanee and Westport. Harold Grant, Odessa, spent a day recently at his father's, Sidney Grants. Mrs. { Jane Walroth, Verona, visited Mrs. B. F. Revell for a few days . last week. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Meeks spent Tuesday in the city. Gordon Moir left on Monday, for Harrow- smith to attend the agriculture course. Mr. and Mrs. D. Yorke and Mr. and Mrs, C. Yorke spent Sun day at Sydenham. Some from here attended the convention, in Kingston, on Wed- nesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clair Meeks and family spent last week-end at Dufferin. Arthur Pomeroy, Desert Lake, called at D. L. Amey's last week. Mrs. B. H. Revell and Mrs. Carl Revell and Gladys were In Kingston on Thursday. Mrs. Perro is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. William Mo... : Martin is busy training her pupils for a Christmas concer. ®. | - luven, Moscow, called in the village one day last week. An army airplane at New York, looping the loop so low.over upper Broadway that persons in the high- er apartment houses could look downward on its capers, gent hun- dreds of pedestrians scurrying for cover, and deluged police stations with complaints. Before putting a ple in the oven hold it under the cold water faucet at an angle, letting the water trickle gently over the top and turning the plate until the entire surface is wel. 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