. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . IDEAL ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORN TRIO. These handsome birds are of medium size, persistent as layers, beingpoor sitiers or non-sitters, having fair fattening qualities and very goodflesh. They are besides hardy, suffering from severe weather much lessthan the Spanish. With this breed they are evidently closely allied, allhaving single combs, large white ear-lobes, and in many cases partly whitefaces, and in the best specimens something of the style of that justlyfavorite breed. This variety may be highly
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . IDEAL ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORN TRIO. These handsome birds are of medium size, persistent as layers, beingpoor sitiers or non-sitters, having fair fattening qualities and very goodflesh. They are besides hardy, suffering from severe weather much lessthan the Spanish. With this breed they are evidently closely allied, allhaving single combs, large white ear-lobes, and in many cases partly whitefaces, and in the best specimens something of the style of that justlyfavorite breed. This variety may be highly recommended for general use,and where a superior chicken is desired. MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. The Bronze Turkey is the leader of all breeds of turkeys. Beautifulin plumage; it glistens in the sunlight like burnished gold. Wliere amplerange can be had the raising of turkeys becomes very profitable and israpidly gaining favor. They are very hardy after six or seven weeks old;the young poults must not be allowed to run out in wet weather until thatage. When bred to standard their weights are: cock, 26 pounds; hen,16 pounds. Well matured males often reach the enormous size of 40and 45 pounds. TURKEYS PROFITABLE. NOT HARD TO RAISE IF THE NATURE OF THE FOWL IS STUDIED, No branch of poultry culture is so much neglected as the raisins^ of tur-keys. I believe this is accounted for by the mistaken idea which gen-erally prevails that turkeys are very hard to raise, and that the breedermust expect to lose at least half or three-fourths of the young birds thatare hatched, says Mrs. Charles Jones in Successful Poultry Journal. I have been raising turkeys for a good many years, and
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