. Poultry for the farm and home. ter care of it. It is hard to take care of a mixed flock. The needs of eachvariety are different. Leghorns are active and hard to Rocks are sluggish and need to be induced to the two are kept together it is hard to get the best out of either. When you have one breed, the fowls are aUke in rate of growth,size, temperament, and habits. Stick to the breed you select. Get your breeding stockfrom an egg-laying strain. KEEP BREEDING STOCK SEPARATE Give up breeding from the entire flock. The feed eaten by8 or 10 ordinary scrub cockerels wi
. Poultry for the farm and home. ter care of it. It is hard to take care of a mixed flock. The needs of eachvariety are different. Leghorns are active and hard to Rocks are sluggish and need to be induced to the two are kept together it is hard to get the best out of either. When you have one breed, the fowls are aUke in rate of growth,size, temperament, and habits. Stick to the breed you select. Get your breeding stockfrom an egg-laying strain. KEEP BREEDING STOCK SEPARATE Give up breeding from the entire flock. The feed eaten by8 or 10 ordinary scrub cockerels wiU pay for one or two first-classcockerels whose breeding is guaranteed. Keep the breeding stockseparate for three or four months during the breeding season. Many farmers confine the layers and let the breeding stockhave free range during the breeding season. Confinement willnot cut down the egg production but it will impair the fertihtyof the eggs and the vitaHty of the chicks hatched from them. r. .11 ~..^?4 #•; : di^fl^...^^. Courtesy U. R. Fishcl This splendid type of WhiteRock cock indicates that therehas been brains behind hisbreeding. Courleiiy Mu, Exp. Stalion He has a right to crowfor he is responsible formost of the improvementof the flock. 40 ^ SCRUB ROOSTERS MUST GO Many a farm with pure-bred hogs and cattle is disgraced by ilsscrub chickens. Weve tolerated scrubs in the poultry yard too and thousands of scrub roosters should havetheir necks wrung before another breeding season opens. Results from using pure-bred males can be obtained morequickly with poultry than with any other class of live stock. The trap nest enables poultry breeders to pedigree their stockfrom the standpoint of egg production. We farmers cant afford to trap-nest, but we can well afford topay good prices for cockerels that come from reliable many states, the State Experiment Station furnishes, at reason-able prices, roosters with high-producing pedigreed ancestry. We g
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