. LAYING TIME AT NIAGARA lAKM The nests in the Colony Houses on Niagara Farm are crude aflfairs, but they are nearly alwai s filled by busy workers In White Wyandottes and White Plymouth Rocks, where exhibition stock is desired, special matings are made, according to vigor of the male bird, giving him from eight to a dozen females. Those fowls that are on ranee are generally mated at the rate of a male for every fifteen or eighteen females. For Leghorns, from twenty- five to thirty females are allowed each male. The fowls intended for breeding or exhibition stock have a range in a large woods.
. LAYING TIME AT NIAGARA lAKM The nests in the Colony Houses on Niagara Farm are crude aflfairs, but they are nearly alwai s filled by busy workers In White Wyandottes and White Plymouth Rocks, where exhibition stock is desired, special matings are made, according to vigor of the male bird, giving him from eight to a dozen females. Those fowls that are on ranee are generally mated at the rate of a male for every fifteen or eighteen females. For Leghorns, from twenty- five to thirty females are allowed each male. The fowls intended for breeding or exhibition stock have a range in a large woods. Being sheltered from the direct rays of the sun they keep a much whiter color. In all the houses, for both old and young stock, which includes both chickens and ducks, planer shavings are used in place of straw bedding,
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