. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 20 Fancy Poultry Most Profitable No branch of the plantation will give the owners as large returns or as much pleasure as the poultry business, and espe- cially so if thoroughbred fowls are used. It costs no more—not as much to feed well bred poultry as it does the common sort, while the returns in eggs and meat are sev- eral hundredfold. The white Plymouth Rock fowl is with- out a doubt the most beautiful and profit- able of all varieties and seem to do better in the great country of Cuba than most any other breed. Their good size, together with their beauti
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 20 Fancy Poultry Most Profitable No branch of the plantation will give the owners as large returns or as much pleasure as the poultry business, and espe- cially so if thoroughbred fowls are used. It costs no more—not as much to feed well bred poultry as it does the common sort, while the returns in eggs and meat are sev- eral hundredfold. The white Plymouth Rock fowl is with- out a doubt the most beautiful and profit- able of all varieties and seem to do better in the great country of Cuba than most any other breed. Their good size, together with their beautiful white plumage, make them an ornament on any plantation. As egg producers they are considered the very best. No breed of fowls have sold for as fancy prices as have white Plymouth Rocks, single specimens selling for as much as eight hundred dollars each, seven speci- mens selling at one time for one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. This proves they are profitable not only from a commercial standpoint, but from a fancy standpoint as well. They seem to thrive in any climate, the writer having shipped them as far north as Alaska and as far south as Cape Horn. N. P. FiSHEL. Hope, Ind., June 21, 1910. A Better Range of Values We should learn to apply the principles of breeding and selection in our orchard work. The bud stick or graft taken from a healthy tree bearing year after year good crops of the type of fruit we wish to produce can be relied on to carry to the coming tree, in the main, the desirable characters we wish to perpetuate. This fact is, of course, doubly true if, in addi- tion to this matter of selection of scions, we have also good and healthy root sys- tems to use as stock in the orchard. We can certainly make a beginning in our work of selection and improvement of the or- chard right now by learning to know just which of our trees is doing the work it is expected to do.—California Fruit Raising Poultry in Cuba. Please note that these image
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