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58 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,
TAYLOR'S
White Wyandottes
Again gave proof of their quality by
winning at the Virginia State Fair.
First Pen Hens, second Hen, second
Pen Pullets, first and third Pullet. I
will sell a quartet, 1 Cockerel and 3
Pullets, late hatched Wyandottes, at $4,
Fine Utility Cocks at $1.50 and $2. Let
me know your wants and the prices
you wish to pay; can supply you, but
write soon, as stock is going fast.
Won at Jamestown Exhibition second
Drake, second Duck, White Pekin
Ducks. First Drake, first Duck, White
Muscovy Ducks. Eggs in season, $3.50
per 12. First Drake, first Duck Alesbury
Ducks. Eggs in season, $3 per 12.
White Pekin Duck Eggs in season,
$2 per 12.
R. RANDOLPH TAYLOR,
Hickory Bottom Poultry Farm, Negrofoot,
Va.
R. F. D. No. 2, Beaver Dam, Va.
OUR WINNINGS
AT THE VIRGINIA STATE FAIR,
Richmond, Va., October 7-12, 1907, were
First pen Partridge Wyandotes.
First pen Partridge Wyandottes.
First pen S. C. Rhode Island Reds.
(The only three pens we showed.)
Spring Hatched
COCKERELS
and
PULLETS
of the above breeds,
FINELY BRED,
VIGOROUS STOCK.
Write for prices.
ELLERSON POULTRY YARDS,
J. W. Qunrles, Prop., Ellerson, Va.
Here is a Bargain.
An extra fine lot of Cockerels ana
Pullets in White Wyandotte (Duston
strain), White Orpington (Cook), and
Barred Plymouth Rock (Bradley Bro».)
at reasonable prices. Prize winning
and utility birds. Also fine Mammoth
Bronze Turkeys. Perfect beauties.
Write now, while they are here, to
MISS CLARA L. SMITH,
Landor Poultry Yards, Crnxton, Caroline
County, Va.
S. and R. C. R. I. Reds,
White Wyandottes, S. C.
B. Leghorns and B. P.
Rocks. Eggs for hatching
$1 for 15; $1.75 for
30; $2.75 for 50; $5 for 100.
All breeding stock mated;
S. and R. C. Red stock.
RIVERSIDE POULTRY
FARMS,
J. B. Coffman & Sons,
Props., Dayton, Va.
PURE-BRED
BRONZE TtlCtHEYS
Mammoth in size, correct in plumage.
The quality of our birds is unusually
fine this year. The price remains the
same—Hens, $3; Toms, $5. If you
don't like them better than you do
your money they are ours and your
money back.
W. G. HUNDLEY, Dog and Chicken
Fancier, Callands, Va.
N. B.—Many wrote us last year after
we had sold out. You, reader, may be
one. We undertook to answer every
inquiry personally but found we could
not. We again solicit your orders.
A Neat Binder for your back numbers
can be had for 30 cents. Address
our Business Department.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Good Roads Work.
The good roads microbe has multiplied
rapidly in New York. The State
appropriated $5,000,000 last year out
of money realized from the sale of
an issue of fifty million dollars worth
of bonds authorized by an amendment
to the State constitution. This is
going some. For this good road construction
the State pays one-half the
cost, the counties 35 per cent, and the
township or property owners 15 per
cent. The bonds run for fifty years
and pay three and a half per cent, interest.
An annual tax of .0055 mill
upon each dollar's worth of property
for every million dollars worth of
bouds outstandng is provided to pay
the interest and create a sinking fund
with which to redeem one-half the
bonds. The rest of the bonds are to
paid in fifty equal annual installments
by the county and townships wherein
the proceeds have been applied to the
improvement of highways. The result
is that New York promises to become
the Good Roads State of the Union,
even vyeing with Massachusetts,
where miles and miles of splendid
State boulevards have been constructed
within the past few years.
The old days of the farmers plowing
up the sides of the road and throwing
the sod into the middle, when there is
no work upon the farm that can be
done, and thus working out the road
tax, promises to become a thing of
the past in the Empire State, or at
least relegated to the remote corners.
School of Farriery.
Last month Colorado inaugurated a
new school of applied science—that of
farriery or horeshoeing. This is according
to E. H. Mullen, a Denver
veterinarian, who was in Washington
the other day. The new school has the
backing of the horseshoers' union of
Denver, and the indications are that
the course, which is to be of five
months' duration, will be exceedingy
popular. The foot is certainly one of
the most important parts of the horse.
The blacksmith who shoes the horse,
Mr. Mullen said, has it in his power to
either ruin the horse or make it a
valuable and long-service animal. It
is necessary that the farrier knows
what he is about when he attempts
to nail a shoe to the horse's foot. He
must be familiar with the horse's foot
and have a general knowledge of the
anatomy of the animal. As far as I
know we have no school in America
where this is taught to any but veterinarians.
We propose to make it a
Dart of our course at our Agricultural
College with the idea that we will
enable our farmers and stockmen to
understand how the .horse's >foot
should be shod and cared for, and
those who desire to embark professionsionally
in the business can here gain
the foundation which, with practcal
exxperience, will enable them to do scientific
work. The course will be very
BARRED
Plymouth Rock
Pullets and Yearling
Hens, bred from trapnested
stock, for sale at
reasonable prices. Eggs
in hatching season.
R. S. SHOWALTER,
Dale Enterprise, Va.
TURKEYS
THE OAKSHADE STRAIN OF M. B.
TURKEYS FOR SALE.
NONE BETTER.
Write for Prices.
HUGUENOT POULTRY YARDS,
Dublin, Va.
PURE
NARAGANSETT
TURKEYS
for sale. Mature early. Do not ram-
ble. Only a few left, $3 and $2.
Dr. WALTER STUART, Farmville, Va.
MAMMOTH
Bronze Turkeys
TOMS, $3.50.
HENS, $2.50.
Mrs. C. E. DICKINSON, Chilesburg, Va.
MAMMOTH
BRONZE TURKEYS
FROM PRIZE WINNERS.
BARRED P. ROCK FOWLS.
E. D. WITHROW, DUBLIN VA.
M. B. TURKEYS
Wolf Strain. Choice lot of Toms $5;
Hens $3; Trio $10.
Order Early and Get the Best.
W. C. SHACKLEFORD, Jr., Stony
Point, Albemarle Co., Va.
PURE-BRED
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys
for sale. Toms, $3; Hens, $2.50.
J. A. REIDELBACH, Buckner, Va.
GOLDEN BRONZETURKEYS
from prize-taking stock, for sale.
Toms, $5; Hens, $4.
Mrs. S. F. BADGETT. Route 1, Farmville,
Va.
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS,
Choice birds; several White and Barred
Rock Cockerels.
A. L. BLAIR, Howardsville, Va.
Wanted: Rose Comb Brown Leghorns.
Half Blood Hound
Pups for sale. Bred from a full blooded
man trailer and deer or fox hound,
given up to make the finest for bear,
deer or fox.
DIXON BROS., LEXINGTON, VA,
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