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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Langshans. — These are a favourite breed of great merit, and are classed as 

 Asiatics. The hens lay a large egg of a rich brown colour, and many of them. Some 

 eggs laid by Langshan hens in the poultry department of the Central Experimental Farm 

 during last winter weighed 7 to 1 pound. The cockerels pus on flesh at the rate of 1 



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Fig. 5. — Langshans. 



pound per month, and as their flpsh is very white they make good market chickens. 

 Both fowls and chickens are very hardy. The standard weights are : cock, 9£ pounds ; 

 hen, 7 pounds ; cockerel, 8 pounds ; pullet, 6 pounds. Some of the male birds grow 

 to a large size, and weigh between 11 and 12 pounds. 



