Rose Comb White Leghorns 



One of the Most Profitable E^g Laying Breeds for the Farmer — Chickens Grow- Rapidly and Matnre Early. 



THE choice of the farmer should be tlie Uose Comb 

 White Leghorns because the most profit or money 

 in poultry is in the breed that lays the most eggs at 

 the least possible cost, and this variety of the Leghorn 

 family fills the bill in this respect. 



They are specially adapted for the farmer who has 

 free range for his fowls, as Rose Comb White Leghorns 

 are great foragers, picking up much of their food in bugs 

 and insects, which cuts down the feed bill, although they 

 are light eaters in comparison with other breeds. 



As chicks the Rose Comb White Leghorns will grow 

 twice as fast and will mature earlier than other breeds. 

 A Rose Comb White Leghorn chick at six weeks old, 

 will be completely feathered and the farmer can put them 

 out on free range, providing a colony house for every SO 

 chicks, and at 3 months old, you will find that your chicks 

 have the broiler size and can be sold if you so desire at this 

 time and reap some benefit or profit therefrom. You can 

 also distinguish the pullets from the cockerels and so this 

 would be a good time to dispose of the males not wanted 

 for broiler use. As a fowl for the table they are good, 

 by many they are considered very good. The pullets often 

 begin laying at S months old, their eggs are pure white 

 and large and 10 will weigh 1 pound. Rose Comb White 

 Leghorn pullets should weigh not less than 3 pounds, 

 hens not less than 4 pounds, cockerels not less than 5 

 pounds and cocks 6 pounds. Farmers can realize if they 

 were to sell them on the market and get 10 cents per 

 pound, so every hen weighing five pounds would bring 

 50 cents, which is not giving them away. Considering 

 their enormous egg yield per year I will say that you will 

 have a good egg laying strain that will average 15 dozen 

 eggs per hen each year and receive 20 cents per dozen, 

 then each R. C. White Leghorn hen will be worth $3. Go 

 for her eggs only and SO cents for her carcass, if you 

 should want to sell her on the market, so the actual in- 

 come of a R. C. White Leghorn to a farmer would be 

 $3.50, which is a good showing and none of the heavier 

 breeds can equal this. The total cost of feed per year 

 will be $1.00 for each hen and the income $3.50, a net 

 profit of $2.50 per hen. Their egg producing qualities 

 have been proven in several egg laying contests. 



From a fancier's standpoint, I think to breed the true 

 Leghorn type in males and females and at the same time 

 the pure white color in their plumage, with good low 

 square set spike combs and bay red eyes, creamy white 

 ear-lobes and tails carried at a good angle not too high 

 nor low, well spread or fan-like, not forgetting their egg- 

 producing qualities is enough for any man to find and 



make some impro\enient every year. By proper mating 

 you can breed in or out what is not wanted. I will say 

 to fanciers of this breed that it is not so easy to breed 

 pure Leghorn type birds that are white as some of our 



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other fancy poultry friends believe it is, although I have 

 bred and raised and sold many winners of the blue and 

 red and white ribbons, the past 12 years, but up to this 

 day I have only seen a few birds that were what I call 

 top-notchers, and these are only a few out of many that 

 are raised, so I know the fancier can always find room 

 for improvement in this breed, especially to get the grand 

 curves a typical Rose Comb White Leghorn male or fe- 

 male should have. .-\ breeder can always find a ready sale 

 for such birds every day in the year. 



