. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . at four and five months old. Bear confine-ment well, but are gi-eat foragers; active on foot and wing, and it i;^.seldom a hawk can catch them. Their bodies, though small compared withthe Asiatic breed, are very plump and make delicious eating, having thatgamey lobes, and rich plumage make them truly beautiful. Leghorns arenot given a weight in standard. A well matured male weighs from 5 to 6pounds, hens from 3I/2 to 5 pounds. GEEEN FOOD FOR POULTRY. Everyone with room to keep chickens should raise a
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . at four and five months old. Bear confine-ment well, but are gi-eat foragers; active on foot and wing, and it i;^.seldom a hawk can catch them. Their bodies, though small compared withthe Asiatic breed, are very plump and make delicious eating, having thatgamey lobes, and rich plumage make them truly beautiful. Leghorns arenot given a weight in standard. A well matured male weighs from 5 to 6pounds, hens from 3I/2 to 5 pounds. GEEEN FOOD FOR POULTRY. Everyone with room to keep chickens should raise a supply of green foodfor them. Lettuce is one of the best green feeds and about the easiestto raise, and a small plot will grow enough for a good-sized flock of poultry journal tells of a friend who has only about four city lots thatkeeps a hundred or more chickens and finds room to sow rape in one ortwo of his yards, and, after it gets six inches high, which is only a shorttime, he turns his chickens in and lets them strip it. Then they are turned 312 Rose-Conih Brown COPYRKtHT 190HCHAS. ^ * IDEAL ROSE COMB LEGHORN TRIO. The Rose and Single Comb varieties are exactly alike in every featureexcept the comb. They are very hardy and the chicks are easily reared onfree range; in fact, before you are aware of it, they are little vestpocketeditions of their brilliant parents; great foragers, summer requirebut little feed. Their low, compact combs are not easily frozen, whichmakes them more desirable in our Northern clime than the single combvariety. They breed very true to feather and form and are fine layers. into another yard whieli has been sown to rape, and while they are eating atthat the first rape starts up as green as ever. Wliy not sow a rape patch onthe farm this spring for green feed through the hot, dry summer monthf:. MARKING YOUNG CHICKENS. If you want to mark your young chickens when they first come from thenest, g
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