Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . BARN-YARD FOWLS. 1117 unfortunately was disseminated before its characteristics became uniformor well fixed in any respect. It gave rise to much bitter controversy,in which even the common dunghill was stated to have had a large sharein the origin. Of late years, what is called the Improved Plymouth Rockhas appeared and show
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . BARN-YARD FOWLS. 1117 unfortunately was disseminated before its characteristics became uniformor well fixed in any respect. It gave rise to much bitter controversy,in which even the common dunghill was stated to have had a large sharein the origin. Of late years, what is called the Improved Plymouth Rockhas appeared and shows care and uniform breeding. They are said togrow fast, fledge early, take on flesh rapidly, and to combine excellentqualities as egg producers and as table fowls. They have not yet be-come popular, except with a comparatively few fanciers, and for thereason, perhaps, that their really good qualities are not yet known A. PAIR OF SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGHORNS. 1118 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
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