. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools . Fig. 152. White Leghorns — popular representatives of the egg-laying, or Mediterranean class. geese, guineas, pigeons and peacocks. Some are raised largely for eggs, others for meat or feathers, and others still to satisfy a fancy. There are two well-marked types of chickens,—the laying type and the meat'type. A'combination of the two gives the general-purpose type.

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