. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . TRIO. The Rose and Single Comb varieties are exactly alike in every featureexcept the comb. They are very hardy and the chicks are easily reared onfree range; in fact, before you are aware of it, they are little vestpocketeditions of their brilliant parents; great foragers, summer requirebut little feed. Their low, compact combs are not easily frozen, whichmakes them more desirable in our Northern clime than the single combvariety. They breed very true to feather and form and are fine layers. i
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . TRIO. The Rose and Single Comb varieties are exactly alike in every featureexcept the comb. They are very hardy and the chicks are easily reared onfree range; in fact, before you are aware of it, they are little vestpocketeditions of their brilliant parents; great foragers, summer requirebut little feed. Their low, compact combs are not easily frozen, whichmakes them more desirable in our Northern clime than the single combvariety. They breed very true to feather and form and are fine layers. into another yard whieli has been sown to rape, and while they are eating atthat the first rape starts up as green as ever. Wliy not sow a rape patch onthe farm this spring for green feed through the hot, dry summer monthf:. MARKING YOUNG CHICKENS. If you want to mark your young chickens when they first come from thenest, get a shoe punch, spread out the foot and punch a hole in the webbetween the toes. Several broods may be marked in this way, so that each Harrcd Pliiiiioiifh liochs. 313. IDEAL BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK TRIO. The Barred Plymouth Ifocks are so well known that a description ofthem is deemed unnecessary. Sulfice it to say they have held their ownagainst all comers, and are today justly termed The Farmers Favorite/*all-purpose fowl. Easy to raise, good foragers and are ready sellers in anymarket. Standard weights are: cock 9i/^ pounds, hen 7i/^ pounds. brood may be readily distinguished. One could be marked in the extremeleft web, another in the right foot on the left side, another in the rightweb of the left foot, and so on. This system of marking in no wise injures the chickens so marked, noris it painful to it. And, if there is no punch handy, the marking can bedone with a knife, splitting the web instead of punching it; but thepunch is the best.—Southern Cultivator. FRUIT AJs^D POULTEY. Th(; combining of fruit Avith poultry is an advantage to both branchesof indus
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