. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . it to say they have held their ownagainst all comers, and are today justly termed The Farmers Favorite/*all-purpose fowl. Easy to raise, good foragers and are ready sellers in anymarket. Standard weights are: cock 9i/^ pounds, hen 7i/^ pounds. brood may be readily distinguished. One could be marked in the extremeleft web, another in the right foot on the left side, another in the rightweb of the left foot, and so on. This system of marking in no wise injures the chickens so marked, noris it painful to
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . it to say they have held their ownagainst all comers, and are today justly termed The Farmers Favorite/*all-purpose fowl. Easy to raise, good foragers and are ready sellers in anymarket. Standard weights are: cock 9i/^ pounds, hen 7i/^ pounds. brood may be readily distinguished. One could be marked in the extremeleft web, another in the right foot on the left side, another in the rightweb of the left foot, and so on. This system of marking in no wise injures the chickens so marked, noris it painful to it. And, if there is no punch handy, the marking can bedone with a knife, splitting the web instead of punching it; but thepunch is the best.—Southern Cultivator. FRUIT AJs^D POULTEY. Th(; combining of fruit Avith poultry is an advantage to both branchesof industry. The trees provide shade for the chickens during the hotmonths, when it is so very essential to the comfort and growth of thechicks. Then the hens and chicks will be at work constantly as long as 314 Silver Laced IDEAL SILVER LACED WYANDOTTE TRIO. The useful qualities of the Silver Laced Wyandotte goes without repeat-ing. The American Wyandotte Club is one of the Jargest poultry organi-zations, which alone explains the standing of this variety of fowl in theestimation of tlie poultry fanciers fraternity. They are beautiful in plum-age, have bright yellow legs and skin, low rose comb, which makes themadapted to cold climates, plump bodies. Cocks weigh 814 pounds, hensone pound less, and as layer;^ are the best of all middle-size fowls. Fortable qualities they are not excelled. there is a bug or worm to be found at the roots of the trees, scratchingand digging, and getting the very essential exercise, as well as ridding thetrees of their enemies. I have known plum and pear trees to bear wherechickens were kept under them, when trees without the chicken accom-paniment failed entirely. There are several r
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