The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma52unse Year: 1903 f D &Y W H P/lLMtR EVtflir, M'tSS Exhibition Barred Plymouth Rocks, bred by W. H. Palmer, Beverly, Mass. The cuts of cockerels are used by Mr. Palmer in advertising the H. O. Poultry Feed. The cockerels, when six months old, weighed lo and loj^ pounds. Tiie combination of a good breed, good feed and good care accounts for the success which Mr. Palmer has attained in producing exhibition stock with utility qualities. The Way They Do It in France. A Frenchman, M. F. Gonjon, writing to the English paper. Poultry, says some things that a
The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma52unse Year: 1903 f D &Y W H P/lLMtR EVtflir, M'tSS Exhibition Barred Plymouth Rocks, bred by W. H. Palmer, Beverly, Mass. The cuts of cockerels are used by Mr. Palmer in advertising the H. O. Poultry Feed. The cockerels, when six months old, weighed lo and loj^ pounds. Tiie combination of a good breed, good feed and good care accounts for the success which Mr. Palmer has attained in producing exhibition stock with utility qualities. The Way They Do It in France. A Frenchman, M. F. Gonjon, writing to the English paper. Poultry, says some things that afford an mteresting side view of French character and French poultry culture, which may have especial interest to some Americans because of a reference to a French character whose pleasures are paid for by American money. M. Gonjon says:— '1 find that some English amateur poultry keepers take great pains indeed to increase poultry farms in England. Their aim is, 'Let us try to produce all that we want.' Of course they are quite right, and I wish them success in their endeavors; but England will never breed as much poultry as we do in France. In this country the land is so much divided that small farms and rural cottages are innumerable, and each of them possesses from ten to twenty head of poultry. In the daytime several flocks are mixed to- gether, but at meal times every one goes home, and every hen knows where her nest lies. 'Then in the open country big farmers can breed as many fowls as they like, without fear of Master Reynard. If one is known to be wandering about, the gamekeeper will immediately go and shoot or poison it. And if the game- keeper is not about, the business will be performed by the garde chanipetre (con- stable), the gendarme, or the peasant himself. And in snow time we destroy any amount of them. Owners of woods and lands where pheasants and partridge are in abundance are but too happy to give a help in destroying foxes. The latter are of no use to the
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