The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . Feathers from First S. C. Brown Leghorn Cockerel and Hen atChicago, 1900. Bred. Owned and Exhibited byWilliam F. Brace. avoiding the double mating system. This can be easily doneby breeding those which have very even surface color(avoiding all tendency to red) with very strong under-colorextending to the skin. The profits which come from the production of strictlyhigh grade stock are surprising to many who thi
The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . Feathers from First S. C. Brown Leghorn Cockerel and Hen atChicago, 1900. Bred. Owned and Exhibited byWilliam F. Brace. avoiding the double mating system. This can be easily doneby breeding those which have very even surface color(avoiding all tendency to red) with very strong under-colorextending to the skin. The profits which come from the production of strictlyhigh grade stock are surprising to many who think a fowlis a fowl. However, any person who really has a love forthe business, and will devote sufficient time and energy to it,will soon learn that all first-class specimens will find readysales at prices ranging from $5 to $25, and occasionally the$50 mark is reached. WILLIAM F. ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS. ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS. Prolific Egg Producers The Question of I ze—Details In Breeding for Exhibition—Influence of Female Parent InProducing Combs Length of Legs—Get the Upstanding Kind of Leghorns. By W. W. hulp. IHAVE been breeding the Rose Comb Brown Leghornssince 1884. That spring I bought two sittings in May,one from a yard five miles north of me, the other froma man living three miles south. The northern yardwas very small, with no grass whatever, and contained aboutfifteen birds. The man south of me had no yard, but kepthis Leghorns in a building six by fifteen feet. He gave themno litter, and every neck was entirely bare of feathers. Itell these details because they proved to be two of the mostremarkable sittings I ever bought. Prom each sitting Ihatched twelve chicks. Every one grew to maturity, andeach sitting consisted of six cockerels and six pullets, andsome of them would be first prize winners to-day, as I re-member them. The best cocke
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