Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . ardy, large size,lay a large egg. Some of the other varieties of Leghorn mayhave these good qualities. I prefer them on account of color. A. 19. I should have to experiment some with crossesto decide this question. KEEP PURE-BREDS MORE SATISFACTORY THAN CROSSES—DONT SELLBIRDS YOU CANT REPLACE FOR THE MONEY W. B. CANDEE, De Witt, N. Y. WHITE
Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . ardy, large size,lay a large egg. Some of the other varieties of Leghorn mayhave these good qualities. I prefer them on account of color. A. 19. I should have to experiment some with crossesto decide this question. KEEP PURE-BREDS MORE SATISFACTORY THAN CROSSES—DONT SELLBIRDS YOU CANT REPLACE FOR THE MONEY W. B. CANDEE, De Witt, N. Y. WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST A. 9. Fowls. A. 10. Results much more certain, that is your eggswould be better than those bought. Advantage of seeing justwhat you are breeding from. A. 11. For the farmer, buy a good sitting of eggs, putthem under a hen, mark the chicks, get a good man to sort themin the fall. Keep the best cockerel, mate him to the pulletsthat are not disqualified, set all eggs the following spring, havethem sorted that fall again, by which time he should begin tolearn what a good one is; then he can do his own sorting. Thenext spring get a cock or cockerel from the same party fromwhich he purchased the eggs, and mate him to a small pen of. AN EXCELLENT BROOD COOP AND RUN the very best females. Keep only pure-breds; do not time he can kill all the mongrels and he will have a flock thatwill be more satisfactory than if he undertakes to cross up withpure-breds. .4. 12. Same as No. 11. .4. 14. Same as No. 11 for his birds. Build a smallcolony house, say 8 by 10, or 10 by 12, and use as a breedinghouse. Then as he goes on if he wants to build a large house hecould use the small one for a chick colony house, or if he decidesto quit he has not lost a small fortune in the business. .4. 15. Get an expert to lay out a good sensible plantand let the same man. if ho is a good judge of birds, go to somereliable breeder and select as many good birds as the beginnerwishes
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