. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 500 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 495. White Plymouth Rock hen (Photograph from owner, Rockandotte Farm, Southboro, Massachusetts) breeds nearly the same in size are arbitrary. It is no advantage to a Plymouth Rock to have a body a very little longer than that of a typical Wyandotte, or to weigh a little heavier; but the heavier fowl furnishes more meat (if the proportion of bone, offal, and edible meat are the same), and (other proportions being approximately the same) the longer-bodied fowl fur- nishes more of the preferred white meat than the
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 500 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 495. White Plymouth Rock hen (Photograph from owner, Rockandotte Farm, Southboro, Massachusetts) breeds nearly the same in size are arbitrary. It is no advantage to a Plymouth Rock to have a body a very little longer than that of a typical Wyandotte, or to weigh a little heavier; but the heavier fowl furnishes more meat (if the proportion of bone, offal, and edible meat are the same), and (other proportions being approximately the same) the longer-bodied fowl fur- nishes more of the preferred white meat than the other. This last is true as to all poultry; if a breeder, whatever kind or variety he is working with, wants to get the largest possible proportion of white meat, he must give particular attention to length of body, not be- cause length is more important than the other dimensions, but because the lack of it gives an impression of plumpness and meatiness that is often misleading.! If Standard type is not to be considered, the longer the body can be made without unduly lengthening legs and neck, or making the bird unsymmetrical, the better. When Standard require- ments as to shape must be observed, the body should be as long as may be with- out departing from the ap- proved type; that is, in selecting breeding birds, the breeder of table poul- try of a Standard variety should always keep away from the short-backed and short-bodied types of that variety. ! In the open market this is an advantage to the short bird; for a regu- lar trade where the buyer practically relies upon the seller to give him satisfac- tory goods, the long-bodied bird, if properly filled out, Fig. 496. White Plymouth Rock cock, is better. graph from Rockandotte Farm). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John
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