. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. (Eastern |3onitrijman. ESTABLISHED 1899 AS THE POULTRYMAN AND POMOLOGIST. DEVOTED TO PRAGTIGAL, POULTRY GULT11RE. Vol. 5. Freeport, Maine, October, 1904. No. 12. Is There An Egg Type? (Written tor the Eastern Poultry man.) "There is an 'egg type' among hens just as there is a 'dairy type' among cows, but you must compare Leghorn hens with Leghorn hens, Wyandotte hens with Wyandotte hens and Brahma hens with Brahma ;—Chas. W. Newman of New York at Millvale Insti- tute, Aug. 17. When considering the above proposi- t
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. (Eastern |3onitrijman. ESTABLISHED 1899 AS THE POULTRYMAN AND POMOLOGIST. DEVOTED TO PRAGTIGAL, POULTRY GULT11RE. Vol. 5. Freeport, Maine, October, 1904. No. 12. Is There An Egg Type? (Written tor the Eastern Poultry man.) "There is an 'egg type' among hens just as there is a 'dairy type' among cows, but you must compare Leghorn hens with Leghorn hens, Wyandotte hens with Wyandotte hens and Brahma hens with Brahma ;—Chas. W. Newman of New York at Millvale Insti- tute, Aug. 17. When considering the above proposi- tion as a text for an article, one can hardly avoid mixing in his mind consid- erable speculative theory together with such facts as may have been more or less superficially observed by him or reported by others. When accurately observed facts bear- ing upon this question become abun- dant, theories which are not supported by those facts will lose their value if not their interest. The writer does not believe in either the "dairy type cow" or the "egg type hen" to the extent which could admit that such a type is so clearly defined that an accurate selection of great and small producers can be made from any and all stocks containing them, by any and all persons whose eyes have been educated to readily detect certain "; Domestic cattle have been bred for a great many years along separately dis- tinct lines by different people in different localities, each working for one object and selecting breeding stock with more or less regard to their known individual qualities. There is, undoubtedly, a great differ- ence in type between the beef cattle of the plains and the dairy cattle of the but- ter producing sections. Individual selec- tion of breeding stock, environment and food all have an effect in determining type- When cattle are bred in immense num- bers solely for beef by breeders whose only effort is to develop the flesh-forming qualities in
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