MANUAL ON POULTRY. 1$ 



of eggs at the season when the Leghorns lay least. Leghorn pullets, 

 of the early spring-hatching, commence to lay early in the fall and 

 ontinue, under good treatment, through the winter. 



Again, the cross of the Leghorn upon the Brahma produces a 

 hardy, thrifty, early-maturing bird, with superior table qualities. 



The Brahma hens may be required to hatch some of their own. 

 ggs in the latter part of winter for a supply of early spring 

 chickens. 



The Leghorns should not be hatched very early in the spring, 

 except enough to supply pullets for fall layers, so that a supply of 

 early spring chickens may thus be grown before commencing to 

 hatch the Leghorns for stock fowls. 



The Leghorns mature so rapidly that they can be hatched ou; 

 later in the season than the larger breeds. The young Leghorns 

 make very choice broilers equal in quality to those of any other 

 breed at the same age, though smaller than some of them. The 

 pullets mature very rapidly, and often commence to lay at from 

 four to five months if well fed or allowed their freedom on a good 

 range. 



If kept for several generations in small enclosures the Leyhorn 

 will decline in size, while, if furnished a large range on which they 

 find an abundance of food, a decided increase in size will result in 

 a few generations. 



A dozen Leghorn hens will furnish an abundant supply of eggs 



for an ordinary family for about 

 nine months in the year, and, if 

 well treated, will furnish some 

 during the remaining three 

 months. 



As egg producers they have 

 no superior. 



Mr. Felch mentions a state- 

 ment made by Mr. Whitman in 

 1873. He says : " With fiftj- 

 one Leghorns, which laid two 

 hundred and seven eggs each, 

 WHITE LEGHOBKS. which he sold for thirty-one 



cents per dozen, the*cost of keeping the fowls being $1.13 each> 

 he shows a profit of 4.04 per head." 



