. Annual catalogue of the Freeport Nurseries and Poultry Yards. Nurseries (Horticulture), Illinois, Catalogs; Poultry industry, Catalogs; Nursery stock, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs. 28 The J. W. Miller SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. The great popularity attained by the S. L. Wyandottes in so short a time is without a parallel, and no other breed is more highly esteemed in America to-day. They have attained public favor entirely on their merits. They are not the common fowl, but the fowl that has come, and come to stay. For table qualities they cannot be excelled. They are
. Annual catalogue of the Freeport Nurseries and Poultry Yards. Nurseries (Horticulture), Illinois, Catalogs; Poultry industry, Catalogs; Nursery stock, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs. 28 The J. W. Miller SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. The great popularity attained by the S. L. Wyandottes in so short a time is without a parallel, and no other breed is more highly esteemed in America to-day. They have attained public favor entirely on their merits. They are not the common fowl, but the fowl that has come, and come to stay. For table qualities they cannot be excelled. They are hardy, easily raised, mature early, and for broilers just fill the bill. As egg-pro- ducers they are excelled only by the " Non-setting " breeds, laying large rich colored eggs. They have beautiful plumage (see illustration) bright yellow legs and skin, low rose combs, making them especially adapted to our Northern climate. They are of good size, with plump bodies, cocks weighing lbs., and the hens 7 J lbs. The hens are good setters and careful mothers, but not persistenly broody. In fact this excellent breed combines all the good qualities as a " general purpose " fowl. Our breeding stock of this noted breed of fowls is simply grand. Finer birds are hard to find. WHY EGGS DO NOT HATCH. The following causes of poor hatches may be avoided by careful attention: Weakly or impotent males ; over-fat females ; cold weather and exposure of the eggs after being laid ; retained too long before being placed under the brood hen ; failure to change the position of the eggs day by day; unsteady sitting hen ; time required for nervous hens to get down to business, and the required 103 of heat degrees necessarv to make a vigorous start of the germ is not kept up for the first three or four days, and thereby weakly chicks are sure to result, and one which will probablv die before the eighteenth or twenty-first day of incubation ; the nest may be a cold and windv place, cau
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