Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . PLYMOUTH ROCK HEN. 26 STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIERS QUARTERLY. nor is its plumage easily soiled; but it is anindifferent layer. The partridge Cochin is Fig. LIGHT BRAHMA ROOSTER. a very quiet chicken; if it was a humanbeing I might be tempted to call it for flying, why, I can fly better myself Then there is the beautiful black-breastedGame, also a good broiler; whose meat isas fine-flavored as that of the are passably-fair layers; althoughyou can only keep a few hens, for it isnecessary to keep a rooster for everyhen, if you wish to avo
Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . PLYMOUTH ROCK HEN. 26 STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIERS QUARTERLY. nor is its plumage easily soiled; but it is anindifferent layer. The partridge Cochin is Fig. LIGHT BRAHMA ROOSTER. a very quiet chicken; if it was a humanbeing I might be tempted to call it for flying, why, I can fly better myself Then there is the beautiful black-breastedGame, also a good broiler; whose meat isas fine-flavored as that of the are passably-fair layers; althoughyou can only keep a few hens, for it isnecessary to keep a rooster for everyhen, if you wish to avoid family quarrelsamong these high-spirited gentry. When I had to remove a hen from onenest to another, I did it at night ratherthan in the daytime; so that she wouldbe more likely to stick to her new warm weather I made the nest on theground. I found that sprinkling flour of sulphurover and around a sitting hen, kept herfree from vermin. I also ruffled herfeathers and back, and dusted her thor-oughly. I once greased a hen while she wassitting, and she punished me for so doingby not giving me one chick. A hen should not stay off from hereggs longer than fifteen minutes in coldw
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