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White Plymouth Bocks. — This is a variety lately introduced but equally popular. 

 All the good points of the latter are claimed for these new comers, with the addition of 

 greater size and whiter appearance of flesh, owing to the absence of the dark pin 

 feathers. They are hardy, rapid growers as chickens, and the pullets are excellent 



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Fig. 8. — White Plymouth Rocks. 



layers. At the Experimental Farm last summer (1893) a cockerel hatched on the 21st 

 May weighed six pounds on the 21st September following. The pullets made large 

 and handsome fowls by the middle of winter, and began to lay in six months. The 

 standard calls for the following weights, viz. : cock, 9 \ pounds ; hen, 7 \ pounds ; 

 ccckerel, 8 pounds ; pullet, 6 pounds. 



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