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 . uite honest about it, for about twenty-fiveleading fanciers clubbed together and sent Mr. Fred Ayers,of Connecticut, across the waters to Leghorn, Italy, andalong the Mediterranean Coast. After a six-months fruit-less search for Rose Comb Brown Leghorns he returned ashe went—an honest man—for he soon published a book(which many of your readers may have seen) entitled TheQuest of the Leghorn, in which he said t
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 . uite honest about it, for about twenty-fiveleading fanciers clubbed together and sent Mr. Fred Ayers,of Connecticut, across the waters to Leghorn, Italy, andalong the Mediterranean Coast. After a six-months fruit-less search for Rose Comb Brown Leghorns he returned ashe went—an honest man—for he soon published a book(which many of your readers may have seen) entitled TheQuest of the Leghorn, in which he said that there were noRose Comb Brown Leghorns in Italy or elsewhere exceptingthose raised in America. So this was a great boom for my adventure, but fancybreeders stuck to the pretty but stamina-killing white ear-lobe and got the Rose Comb Brown Leghorn admitted tothe standard, so I bred from my best layers only, regardlessof ear-lobes, until 1885, eleven years ago, when I sold mylittle farm at South Hollis, Maine, where I was postmasterfor eight years and began village life, but if I had stuck tothe chicken business it would perhaps have been quite aswell for me. t. C. SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS. WHITE LEGHORNS EOR EGGS. A Farm Where White Leghorns, Colled the Business Hen of America, are Used Exclusively—Quarters and Rations —Incubators Do the Hatching, Brooders the Brooding. By M. J. Blanchard. THE man who has decided to go into the poultry busi-ness has usually made up his mind which branch he• wishes to follow, and if it be egg farming, with thesale of breeding stock and eggs for hatching, he willmake no mistake in selecting the Single Comb White Leg-horn as the breed lie will keep. As there is said to be a difference in ginger, so there isalso a decided difference in White Leghorns. When line-bred for the show room they are seldom the large, hardy,persistent layers that they are when selected and properlybred for egg production, but when bred with the lat
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