. Egg and poultry raising at home . ^-'?^P*&$ ""x: Fig. 3.—Andalusian Hen. or cross-bred fowls. Mongrels are out of the question. A mongrel is a degenerate, that has been allowed to come upon the earth with no fixed purpose, and without selection in breeding. Such a bird cannot be expected to be a layer; and though thousands of poultry-keepers still stick to mongrel birds, it is not because they

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