Farmer and stockbreeder . show and brought back seventeen prizes. Ifone wishes to start for breeding winners it isbe«t to spend the available money on three orfour good birds than to dissipate it over a is much that can only be learnt by experi-ence and by watching the results of mating. The secondary birds out of an old-establishedstrain will breed better stock than the best outof a new strain. Young stock after leaving therearing ground never do quite ae well as in anopen field run. There is something in shadingfrom too hot sun and keeping birds out of rain,but really, if the blo
Farmer and stockbreeder . show and brought back seventeen prizes. Ifone wishes to start for breeding winners it isbe«t to spend the available money on three orfour good birds than to dissipate it over a is much that can only be learnt by experi-ence and by watching the results of mating. The secondary birds out of an old-establishedstrain will breed better stock than the best outof a new strain. Young stock after leaving therearing ground never do quite ae well as in anopen field run. There is something in shadingfrom too hot sun and keeping birds out of rain,but really, if the blood i« good, well-fed birdswill stand all sorts of weather. I have pickedlip birds ae white as snow from a field houseand had them in a show in a week. Utility menfeed just as well now for egg production and rearing as the old fanciers of a generation ago didbefore there were any ntility fowl worthy of thename. The dietary I give constantly in thispaper is the best I know for any stock. Geoege a. Palmer. JxTTY 19, EEPLIES TO POULTBY QUERIES Querists mxist send their names and addresses,should be noted that we do not undertakereply to inquiries by post. HENS ON THE INTENSIVE SYSTEM (J. W. D.).—The likeliest book to suit you is Com-mercial Egg Farming, by S. G. Hanson, publishedby Constable and Co.—G. A. P. AMEBICAN POtTLTBY LITEHATUEE (G. fi.).—You can get all the best from the HrliahlcPoultry Journal Publishing Co., Quincy, Illinois, As prices have altered so of late years youhad better send to Iheni for complete list. Youoould probably get Incubation and its Laws, byCharles Cyphers, from Mr. A. Robinson, 12, Ham-lets-road, Haverhill, Suffolk, who is English agentfor the Cyphers Incubator. Other books that wouldbe of service to you are The Inheritance ofFecundity (Oscar Smail), obtainable from Missbmail, Bonnybrook, Sunbury-on-Thames; PoultryCulture (Kauff), Saunders and Co.; My PoultryDay by Day (Alfred Gibson), Grant Richards-Diseases of Poultry (Read and
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