. The Farm-poultry . t all the stock and made thegeneral matings and a few special season I hope that these can bemade a month earlier and eventually Iwant to make the general matings whenthe birds go into winter quarters. In our general matings we have 80 to100 females in pens IG x 20 ft., with 8 to10 males. The females are assorted forsize, shape, and color, not with as strictattention to color details as in mating toproduce high grade exhibition stock, butstill with a view to the looks of the flockand to a pleasing uniformity in the off-spring. The males are selected on thesame
. The Farm-poultry . t all the stock and made thegeneral matings and a few special season I hope that these can bemade a month earlier and eventually Iwant to make the general matings whenthe birds go into winter quarters. In our general matings we have 80 to100 females in pens IG x 20 ft., with 8 to10 males. The females are assorted forsize, shape, and color, not with as strictattention to color details as in mating toproduce high grade exhibition stock, butstill with a view to the looks of the flockand to a pleasing uniformity in the off-spring. The males are selected on thesame general principles, but a little morerigidly. Our varieties (and breeds) are BarredPlymouth Rocks, Single Comb WhiteLeghorns, and to these will be addedshortly Light Brahmas, the farm takingver the stock that my son and I havebeen breeding at home. This gives agood representative variety in each classof fowl. The Barred Rock stock here cameoriginally from a well known farm andhas been blended with stock from several. Remarkable Longevity in Fowls The accompanying illustration shows apen of White Wyandottes which belongedto Mr. F. A. P. Coburn, of , Mass.,somewhere near fifteen jears ago. It waspublished in this paper, April, HlOl. In the October issue of The CounlryskleMagazine there is an exact duplicate of itaccompanying an account of the experi-ences of an amateur, John H. Ballentineby name, and used to illustrate a refer-ence by him to my little Hock. I have frequently seen pens of choicebreeding fowls that were six to eight yearsold and in pretty good condition, thoughnot lacking signs of their age, but I havenever heard of another instance like the cut got mixed in the make-up. Of Interest to R. I. Red Breeders Readers interested in Rhode IslandReds should note the advertising of theSpring Jarm Poultry Co., Littleton,Mass., which begins in this issue. Theproprietors of this farm have engaged asmanager .Stephen H. Parker, well knownto Rhode Island Red
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