The Farm-poultry . while the Spanish areless uniform, as well as smaller; the EnglishMinorca is round in body and full in breast,the Spanish being more upright, and followingrathsr the shape of the Italian or Leghornfowl. I do not think that this is so much aquestion of breeding as of local conditions,and I should be very sorry indeed to see theSpanish slavishly adopting our English stand-ards, because that, in my opinion, would be agreat mistake, as we cannot rigidly apply thestandards of one country to any other. Thebest lot of fowls I saw were at the StateAgricultural College at Manclou, of
The Farm-poultry . while the Spanish areless uniform, as well as smaller; the EnglishMinorca is round in body and full in breast,the Spanish being more upright, and followingrathsr the shape of the Italian or Leghornfowl. I do not think that this is so much aquestion of breeding as of local conditions,and I should be very sorry indeed to see theSpanish slavishly adopting our English stand-ards, because that, in my opinion, would be agreat mistake, as we cannot rigidly apply thestandards of one country to any other. Thebest lot of fowls I saw were at the StateAgricultural College at Manclou, of whichmore will be said in another article.âEdwardBkowx, (⢠Stephen Beale, ) in CountryGentleman. The unsuccessful man waits for somethingto turn. Thats Micawberizing. The success-ful man gets out and hustles and turns upthings upon his own account. And that usu-. ally is advertising.â Printers Ink. EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIMENT Black MinorcasIN FEEDING. How Skill and Judgment in Practical Feeding are =.DITOR Farm-Poi;ltrv :âIn your advice in ditterentplaces I think you say it isbetter to cast aside scien-tific feeding, and use prac-tical entirely. The disad-vantage of this â as itappears to me â is that while the former maybe quite wrong, it gives some idea of a road tofollow; while to me the other seems to be alldarknessâa straight grope in the dark. Theegg yield may drop, and a change in the feedseem necessary, but whether to increase ordecrease the different parts is the question. Now last winter I noticed that if very muchcut clover were fed with the regular mash,that, while the hens ate it all and quickly, theegg yield did not come up. I changed theproportions of the mash, andas I decreasedthe clover, the egg yield increased and wasmore regular. Cut clover has a peculiar smellwhen partly or wholly cooked, so much so litter. All are fed twice at night, and theyusually have >iitlicient. Part of the pens haveto scratch for all they get, as the litter is cu
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