Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 18, 1912, Page 2

Y PAGE TWO LOOKING THROUGH OUR TIRES |THE TRAP NEST AND ITS FUNCTION. lamps, horns, batteries tools aad all other supplies. 1f they are all right they are here ready to sup- ply the needs of your auto without delay and without unreasonable ex- pense. i bantam, are conceded to be descend- ants of the original pair, liberated from the ancient ark. Chickens, like Ithe rest of the feathered tribes, be- came wild inhabitants of the jungles| of India and surrounding country. E Wild chickens were not unlike oth-| ers of the wild feathered families in The House of the FORD AND CADILLAC. UNION GARAGE ~ West Main St. PHONE 65 #0000 QIVIOIVIIDIOIONO BOEOEOIITOFOTOEDIOPOPOIIID JUST RECEIVED Full line Reach’s Base Bail Goods . . Our 50c concerned. A hen seldom laid more ! than vnuuz,,h eggs to hatch one brood ! of young each season. Chickens in| those days were usually undersized, ' tough and stringy, and none too 5/0‘3'0 L a change has taken place since they were recaptured, and brought back |into domestication. OTOSOTOTOP 00T so far as their laying habits were| . highly prized as delicious food. What | THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 18, 1912. lOO‘j jong and has been kept too busy wi |been in the poultry business you will find only st'andard makes, bite. Each of the schemers claims| the kind we don’t have to ‘f'" YOU| Ayl chickendom, from the gigantic that his what-ever-you-may-call-it are all right. Same way With oUrig. 005 down to the fidgety, frisky i “It,” and yet they claim all one needs is their eyes and hands to de- termine the best layers. This may sound well to a man up a tree; but; to us who have handled chickens‘ by the thousands, such tommyrot sounds like inventors had warped their minds in an effort to catch the novice. Some of the most nobby hens 1 ever owned fell considerable short m the standard 1 have set for ad- mmiug hens to the breeding )ards There is only one unerring way of increasing the egg laying capacity of one's flock and that is by a ju- dicious use of properly constructed trap nests, a sketch of which we give below, without description and lest we become intrusive. & Book Sale iz stili on . . Stationery :i“ all S| In the make up of those breeds close, & shapes . . PostCards 1 cent cach . . On Fiwhere meat has been the object| With a proper understanding of £ andafter April 1st the business of this store will 3 conght, the size has been very great-|the art of poultry breeding, together | & : ; ’ : i i R ; Y 20y increased. In building up thoese | With a knowledge of the essential o be conducted on a strictly cashibasis. @ hreeds where a more coplous egg|fvod elements; and how to properly 8 ‘1"‘);4-14! was desived, a still greater im- proportion or balance the ration, to ;:; ‘-,:I,r,.\.‘“,. nt has been made. weet the various requirements at & ;)', What Las been the keynote to diffcrent seasous of the year, no [ai és LAKELAND BOOK S TOl?E b’ilhv se salient improvements? I~'rmn"“'i"""1 -]umllr_\mu{; 1?(‘v*~l.llt-“1')‘. lll‘i‘ Efi 2| Robert Bakewell and perhaps far be- progressive and faithful liutle bipe! OO DPHGIOROD i axiom has been *“Like jand “breed from the best.” What s meant by the best of the best? In answering this, one must necessarily be guided by the purpose for which the flock is kept. If he is extremely anxious to spring billion dollar specimens onto the publie, it will, in all probability, be necessary, while selecting stock to breed from, to go through all the contortions and weird enchantments of ye jugglers of old before his season of jubilee., But we less fortunate and remote de- scendants of Croesus of old must con- fine our efforts to selecting speci- mens of intrinsic, rather than myth- ical values. voud, hegets like,” best of the POTATOES BEANS ALL SEEDS Don't send away for such. Ihave as good as money and experience can command. N. Y. and Eastern grown. Some from other sections wherever the best grow. Chicken ranches, with illadl'(]lllll“; means to carry on a persistent adver- | tising campaign, will find it behooves them to confine their best efforts to building up a large, well pru[mr-‘ tioned, healthy, vigorous utility fowl that will meet the demands as a first-cluss market product, or to establishing a strain that will giv! the as persistent uniform eggs that will sell on sight, FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS very best account of themselves layers of good sized| D. B. Dickson To build up a strain of lirst-class table fowls involves no extraordinary course of procedure. But to build up a healthy strain of splendid lay- ers of large sized uniform eggs is a different proposition. Suffice it to say, ninety per cent of those Keep- ing chickens, gather eggs for hatch- ing from the whole flock, as they come to them. This practice is at variance with the law of atavism, and should be more generally dis- L L couraged., Atavism, as expressed in | breeding parlance, signifies a pro- deterioration; a reverting objectional ancestral F 0 R S A L E 'l‘nmber, Turpentine, Cut-over Lands, Choice Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- beary and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just as represented by us, For reliable information see} . Oklinger & Affield : [ cess o of to some On | back x.\|w_ account of this tendeney qm reversion, good laying hens will quite successful stock breeders' | justly termed the business hen. JEFF D. SMITH, Lakeland, Fla. Unwise Comment, How much wiser would a man ap- pear if he reserved his comments. The other day a woman sald, “I hear that Valenciennes lace is going to be the wear again.” “Is 1t?" growled her husband. “I'll bet you an ofl well, then, it's something that doesn’'t cost a cent under 37 cents a yard.” And his wife, seeing that he had a cinch, was rilent, and would not stay in and call him, -—- lakeland Hardware & Plumbing BRING YOURGIRL soda fountain at this drug store, She will find here courteous attention and the most frequently produce pullet COTGOTGOO Opposite New Depot, LAKELAND FLORIDA. {that prove by the trap nest to b I e T R R T K Pt O O W PP S L N WA wWnoQosor 1 r to produce hens t wild mo m pay for their —~y | Keep, ey i stances wher | yers, were paired with them T'o thos of nature, poultry who llllt|1\~[ md the laws as applied to the art of| the above truths are self evident. So “like begets like,” must be the dominant thought in every poultry man's mind, while |s«']votinn specimens for the breed- ing yards, that are to produce per- sistent layers the coming season. 1 know but few poultrymen who konow and are able to pick out the best laying hen in their flock, to say nothing about selecting enough 1 Maps of any description compiled on short attention { notice, Special breeding, given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at rea- maps kept on hand. sonable rates. Special rates for prints in large quantities. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. Room 213-215 Drane Building LAKELAND, FLA. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and up their breeding yards, with any degree of certainty. Could you per- form this stunt, dear reader? If S0 you are a rare exception to the rule; you justly deserve to be re- warded with the patronage of tho poultry fraternity, for, if you keep pure breeds, which are the onl\ kind T would keep on the place, you are in a position to furnish your patrons with something worth while There are many ways, methods, Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, systems and schemes for selecting the best layers. I have known oth- LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA Wicrs (o get scooped in on some of S | {0<¢, but your humble servant has specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. ’ of their very best layers to makel \delightful drinks 1n [town, We ‘to the ladies—our cater especially sundaes, iscd;ls and frappes were long lago voted just too delicions {for anything by the prettiest Ask HER —bring her in today—she wants to come anyway. 'women in towa. A cool half hour spent at this fountain is a very pleasant way of whiling away that time. I QUICK DELIVERY Red Cross| lPharmacy | PHONE 89 I to the splendid; IT’S SPRINGTIME RIGHT NOW At this store and spring clothes are herc...i, plenty. If there is a man or boy that needs Cli1}.« or Furnishings, we are ready to put him Jint, : nobbiest goods at the lowest prices. L Boys' Suits $4.50 to $8.00 Men'’s Spring Suits $10 to $16 Our Spring Opening March 16th i THE HUB JOSEPH LeVAY 118 North Kentucky Avenue, Lakeland A KEEN APPRECIATION of the value of ualit hkardware is our guid: | our supplies. We don't buy uniih that we wouldn't be willing 1 That makes it 1 ourselves, for you to buy an infirio liere. Come here net time und certain satisfaction with chase, ROSEDALE Lakeland's sub-division only exclusive is now on the market, Wide Streets, Shade Trees, Fertile Soil, Building Restrictions. Inside the city one block from Lake!Morton Smith & Steitz and G. C. Rogan Rooms 19-23 Raymendo Bldg. When you take a wu'ls ride, gothrough R the newest part o is the Bjur Bros. pia played. 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