. Commercial poultry raising;. Poultry. WYANDOTTES ARE GOOD BROILERS 19 best meat breeds, either for soft roasters or capons; the Silver Campine is essentially an egg producer, and is not desirable for table poultry. When I say "not desirable for table poultry" I mean that it is not in popular demand, and not particularly pro- fitable as such. The Campine is small, inclined to be dry and stringy, and the color of its carcass does not meet with market requirements. They find a sale, of course, but the prices received are below those gotten for the Fig. 8.—White Plymouth Rock
. Commercial poultry raising;. Poultry. WYANDOTTES ARE GOOD BROILERS 19 best meat breeds, either for soft roasters or capons; the Silver Campine is essentially an egg producer, and is not desirable for table poultry. When I say "not desirable for table poultry" I mean that it is not in popular demand, and not particularly pro- fitable as such. The Campine is small, inclined to be dry and stringy, and the color of its carcass does not meet with market requirements. They find a sale, of course, but the prices received are below those gotten for the Fig. 8.—White Plymouth Rocks. Breeds for Particular Purposes.—The person who starts out with a particular specialty firmly fixed in his mind should make everything subordinate to this end. If he has his mind made up on a broiler plant, well and good, he will do well to choose the Wyandotte, all other things being equal. See Fig. 7. He might also select the Plymouth Rock or the Rhode Island Red, or nu- merous others, but he would be heading wrong to pick out, let. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roberts, Howard Armstrong, 1885- [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, D. McKay
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