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Cochins — cost of feed $10.15, value of eggs $11.80, 

 meat $11.90. Total value $22.38. Total profit $14.38. 



Houdaus — cost of feed $7.35, value of eggs $15.66, 

 meat $9.10. Total value $24.76. Total profit $19.81. 



Leghorns — cost of feed $5.77, value of eggs $16.14, 

 meat $7.30. Total value $23.44. Total profit $17.97. 



Thus we see that the greatest profit on the investment 

 is in favor of the Houdans, with the Leghorns next. Un- 

 fortunately Langshans were not tested. Wyandottes are 

 also most excellent fowls, and should be in every Florida 

 poultry-yard. 



It takes all kinds of people to make up the world, and 

 so does it take all kinds of fowl to make up a genuine 

 poultry-yard. 



"Variety is the spice of life," and we want it in the 

 Florida poultry-yard; turkeys, ducks, geese, let us have 

 them all ; for " that way " profit " lies." 



Turkeys, as a rule, are not regarded as being very prof- 

 itable, the enormous percentage of mortality among the 

 young chicks eating up all the possible gains ; this, as Ave 

 say, is the general rule, but there are enough exceptions 

 to it in the few who succeed in raising almost every chick 

 to prove that it need not be so with proper care. 



In our fair land of Florida, with its gloriously mild win- 

 ters, the delicate turkey finds a congenial home, and will 

 thrive with far less care and expense than in a more vig- 

 orous climate. 



All who attempt to raise turkeys should bear in mind 

 that during the first six weeks or two months of their lives 

 the little "turks" are excessively delicate, and that the 

 least wetting even from a slight shower is enough to damp 

 the ardor of fully half the brood that may be exposed to 

 it, and causes them to seek shelter beneath the sod. 



But if oue can manage to detain the young "turk§" 



