. The Eastern poultryman . Copyrighted, icp4, by W, J, Stokes This breed is becoming very popular. The demand at present exceeds the sup- ply, and good specimens command high prices. They have few equals in their particular lines, giving the best of satis- faction as an all-around variety. In plu- mage they resemble the Dark Brahma, the females being beautifully penciled. They bear confinement well and their color makes them very desirable for the city fancier, it being a shade that stands the most trying circumstances. As layers they are equal to any of the Wyandotte family. They are very har
. The Eastern poultryman . Copyrighted, icp4, by W, J, Stokes This breed is becoming very popular. The demand at present exceeds the sup- ply, and good specimens command high prices. They have few equals in their particular lines, giving the best of satis- faction as an all-around variety. In plu- mage they resemble the Dark Brahma, the females being beautifully penciled. They bear confinement well and their color makes them very desirable for the city fancier, it being a shade that stands the most trying circumstances. As layers they are equal to any of the Wyandotte family. They are very hardy, maturing early, easily reared, and of fine frame. A very stylish bird and by many called the beauty and utility breed. Our illus- tration represents the cockerel Highland King, first prize winner at Boston, Mass. Bred by the Highland Poultry Yards, West Roxbury, Mass. Poultry Management at the Maine Agri- cultural Experiment Station. Many years practical experience in rais- ing and keeping poultry and investiga- tions in poultry breeding at this Station have resulted in the accumulation of a considerable fund of information on poul- try management. The object of this paper is to outline this experience for the benefit of poultry keepers, and help them discriminate between some of the wrong theories which have underlain much of the common practice of the past, and the better theories, which underlie other and newer methods that are yielding more satisfactory results. It may be that the methods in vogue with us are no better than those practiced by others, but in the following pages the attempt is made to concisely state the practices which are now being successfully employed at this Station. The difficulties attending artificial poul- try keeping lie in the numbers of small animals that make up the business. With most domestic animals the care-taker treats each one individually, and there is far less draft on the abililies of the herds- man with his large animals than on the
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