. The Eastern poultryman . ''CONQUERER/'—Jst Prize Cockerel. "QUEEN MARY/'—1st Hen. "PRINCESS/'—1st Pollet. WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS, 1904. It gives us great pleasure, this month, to present for the inspection of our readers, life-like illustrations of three of the First Prize Winners at the recent World's Fair. Partridge Plymouth Rocks are a new variety, but they possess all of the qualities of the Barred, Buff, or White Plymouth Rocks, as a general purpose fowl, while they have the plumage of the Partridge Cochin. These birds were bred and raised by Henry L. Hunton of Oakland, who i
. The Eastern poultryman . ''CONQUERER/'—Jst Prize Cockerel. "QUEEN MARY/'—1st Hen. "PRINCESS/'—1st Pollet. WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS, 1904. It gives us great pleasure, this month, to present for the inspection of our readers, life-like illustrations of three of the First Prize Winners at the recent World's Fair. Partridge Plymouth Rocks are a new variety, but they possess all of the qualities of the Barred, Buff, or White Plymouth Rocks, as a general purpose fowl, while they have the plumage of the Partridge Cochin. These birds were bred and raised by Henry L. Hunton of Oakland, who is certainly to be congratulated upon the success he has attained. four times a day being sufficient. Fresh water and whole corn should be given the hen as soon as she is removed from the nest, but both food and water should be withheld from the chicks for at least twelve hours after they are put in the brood coop. After the third week a small quantity of ground green bone can be given, increasing the amount as the chicks mature. It is also beneficial after this age to give a night feed of whole wheat or cracked corn. Keep your chicks growing, free from lice, get them on the roost as soon as possible after they are weaned, and above all don't crowd them and you will raise a large, healthy flock of fowls that will be a profit and pleasure to you.— The Feather. THE CHICKENS DID NOT GROW WELL. A Poor Growing: Ration. Three Times Too Much Corn. A correspondent in Pennsylvania com- plained that his chickens did not grow well last summer, and that, although he had bought his stock of Plymouth Rocks of one of the best breeders in the country they were not what they ought to be, and he wasn't satisfied with them. He reported the cockerels as weighing but about pounds at seven months old, and the iiullets are still quite immatured. We asked what he had fed them, and what he is feeding them now, and his re- ply to the questions revealed at a glance where the trouble lies. He
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