. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 1830 Keport of Farmers' Institutes meat and eggs. Where the fowl for meat is desired, some one of the American breeds will be found more profitable than any of the Mediterraneans of which the leghorns is the chief type. However, if it is a question of broilers, a leghorn will produce any weight up to about a pound and a half for less than any of the so-called meat breeds. It is customary when seeing a large producing flock on a neighbor's farm, to feel that a mistake has been made in the selection of our ow
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 1830 Keport of Farmers' Institutes meat and eggs. Where the fowl for meat is desired, some one of the American breeds will be found more profitable than any of the Mediterraneans of which the leghorns is the chief type. However, if it is a question of broilers, a leghorn will produce any weight up to about a pound and a half for less than any of the so-called meat breeds. It is customary when seeing a large producing flock on a neighbor's farm, to feel that a mistake has been made in the selection of our own and a change made to a flock of the same breed and variety as the neighbor has; many times going to some t)ther place for the foundation stock. The matter of prime importance is, first to select the variety which we like best, that we will take best care of, that we will show to our friends with the greatest amount of pride, and then develop a heavy laying strain, making production the first recpiisite instead of feathers and shape. Probably the best method is to select a hen of known large pro- duction and a male bird of the same variety, having a mother of equally large production, and from this one pair, by careful line breeding, mating the cock to his own daughters the second year, and the hen to one of the cockerels the same year. In this way two lines of breeding may be established and one need never go outside for a single drop of new Fig. 196. Light Bkahma Cock INCUBATIOI^ In selecting eggs for incubation, not only the parent stock should be right, but the egg itself should be right and properly cared for after the selection is made. The lar2:e effg not onlv produces the large chick but the weight of the chicks at six weeks of age will vary in proportion to the weight of the eggs from which they were hatched. Th(> ill-shaped egg; is apt to show itself. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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