WHAT VARIETY TO CHOOSE 



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Indian Runners, both colored and white, called the Leghorn of 

 the duck family, being rather small, very active and immense layers 

 of fine white eggs. Then there are the Buff Orpington Ducks 



Indian Runner Ducks 



becoming very popular; the Blue Swedish, Black Cayuga, Colored 

 and White Muscovy, Call and Black East India, these latter being 

 more ornamental varieties. 



Geese 



Perhaps the easiest kept and noisiest of all our large variety of 

 domestic fowl are geese, and where conditions are suitable, they 

 prove very profitable. The Toulouse, a large gray variety, and the 

 White Embden, seem the most popular of the pure bred varieties, 

 and the weights for either variety are, for adult gander, 20 pounds ; 

 young gander, 18 pounds ; adult goose, 18 pounds ; young Toulouse 

 goose, 15 pounds ; and Embden young goose, 16 pounds. Other 

 varieties are the African, Brown and White Chinese, Canadian and 

 Egyptian; these are either used for ornamental purposes or for 

 crossing. 



Selection of Breed 



Knowing the values and weights of the different standard 

 breeds, the beginner will be enabled to make his choice, and have 

 no trouble in finding the proper selection. 



Supposing egg production is the principal object, the beginner 

 will have to decide according to the demand of his nearest market. 

 Boston requires brown eggs, San Francisco white eggs, while Los 

 Angeles seems to be content with either. If you are living near 

 San Francisco, one of the Mediterranean breeds will prove the most 

 valuable to you. The Minorcas, Black Spanish and some of the 

 strains of White Leghorns lay the largest and finest looking eggs. 

 One correspondent who asks for justice for the Minorcas says he 

 has Minorca hens which lay eggs weighing nearly three ounces, 

 and there were Leghorn eggs on exhibition in a late poultry show 

 which weighed five eggs to the pound, but these were from hens 

 "bred to lay." The Brown Leghorns and Hamburgs give many 

 eggs white eggs also but smaller, which is an objection in a 

 good market. Should broilers be the object, we should choose 



