. Egg money, how to increase it; a book of complete and reliable information on the more profitable production of eggs on the city lot, the village acre and the farm. Poultry; Eggs. A Typical Laying ^av^.^o^ x wL,iid by A. C Smith on his Visit to a Rhode Island Egg Farm. Leghorns to produce a variety of the same characteristics as the Rhode Island Reds possess. However, the whole matter seems to be problematical and we must take these farms as we find them with the established Rhode Island Reds—good layers and fairly good market fowls. While the great majority of these farms breed Rhode Island
. Egg money, how to increase it; a book of complete and reliable information on the more profitable production of eggs on the city lot, the village acre and the farm. Poultry; Eggs. A Typical Laying ^av^.^o^ x wL,iid by A. C Smith on his Visit to a Rhode Island Egg Farm. Leghorns to produce a variety of the same characteristics as the Rhode Island Reds possess. However, the whole matter seems to be problematical and we must take these farms as we find them with the established Rhode Island Reds—good layers and fairly good market fowls. While the great majority of these farms breed Rhode Island Reds exclusively, yet there are exceptions. The Light Brahmas are the second favorites. We also find White Wyandottes and particularly do we find Pekin Ducks- and Embden Geese. The Houses are Cheap. As stated, these are not built for ornamentation. They are not built by men who have burdensome incomes to- reduce. They are built by men inculcated with the save- the-coppers spirit, and look it. All are of much the same general plan, built of rough, square edged hemlock boards, both roof and walls. They are about all of the pitch roof style and while they vary in length are in almost every instance ten feet wide. Some are ten feet long, more are twelve or fifteen, and many are twenty. A great deal of ingenuity is displayed in the minor details of fittings. The roofs are in some cases covered with waterproof paper, but in most instances they are not. The hemlock boards are laid up and down close together, and battened, some- times with lath, sometimes with wider stuff, and again, with other boards, in which case the course underneath is not laid very close together. There is always one win-. 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 Nourse, Harold Alvah, 1875-. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Company
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