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distribute during the season at least seventy settings of eggs. 

 Those who distribute less will be paid in proportion to the number 

 they distribute. Applicants for premiums must keep pure breeds. 

 One of the following laying breeds of hens must be selected : — 

 Minorcas, White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns; and one of the 

 following general purpose breeds of hens : — Houdans, Plymouth 

 Eocks, Orpingtons, White Wyandottes, Salmon Faverolles, and 

 Sussex. The ducks must be Indian Eunner, Aylesbury, or Pekin. 

 Applicants must see that the breed is maintained. They must 

 not keep fowls of any kind of which the instructor does not 

 approve ; they must provide proper and sufficient housing accom- 



POULTRY HOUSES AT MUMSTEK INSTITUTE, CORK 



modation ; must feed and care for the birds as required by the 

 instructor, and must supply settings of eggs to any person in the 

 county at Is. per dozen. 



Turkeys 



The Department offers premiums of £2 each to persons who 

 are prepared to keep one or more pure-bred American Bronze 

 stock turkey cocks for the service of turkey hens, the property of 

 any person residing in the county, at a fee of 6d. per service. 

 Each cock must serve twenty hens exclusive of the owner's. If a 

 smaller number are served, the premium will be proportionately 

 reduced. After twenty hens have been served the owner may 

 refuse to allow the bird to serve more or may charge a higher 

 fee. The stock birds must not be less than the following weights 

 on 1st January 1906, viz., cockerels, 22 lbs. ; adult birds, 28 lbs. 



