THE CUBA REVIEW 



20 



Fancy Poultry Most Profitable 



No branch of the plantation will give 

 the owners as large returns or as much 

 pleasure as the poultry business, and espe- 

 cially so if thoroughbred fowls are used. 

 It costs no more — not as much to feed well 

 bred poultry as it does the common sort, 

 while the returns in eggs and meat are sev- 

 eral hundredfold. 



The white Plymouth Rock fowl is with- 

 out a doubt the most beautiful and profit- 

 able of all varieties and seem to do better 

 in the great country of Cuba than most any 

 other breed. Their good size, together with 

 their beautiful white plumage, make them 

 an ornament on any plantation. As egg 

 producers they are considered the very best. 



No breed of fowls have sold for as 

 fancy prices as have white Plymouth Rocks, 

 single specimens selling for as much as 

 eight hundred dollars each, seven speci- 

 mens selling at one time for one thousand 

 seven hundred and fifty dollars. This 

 proves they are profitable not only from a 

 commercial standpoint, but from a fancy 

 standpoint as well. 



They seem to thrive in any climate, the 

 writer having shipped them as far north as 

 Alaska and as far south as Cape Horn. 



N. P. FiSHEL. 



Hope, Ind., June 21, 1910. 



A Better Range of Values 



We should learn to apply the principles 

 of breeding and selection in our orchard 

 work. The bud stick or graft taken from 

 a healthy tree bearing year after year good 

 crops of the type of fruit we wish to 

 produce can be relied on to carry to the 

 coming tree, in the main, the desirable 

 characters we wish to perpetuate. This 

 fact is, of course, doubly true if, in addi- 

 tion to this matter of selection of scions, 

 we have also good and healthy root sys- 

 tems to use as stock in the orchard. We 

 can certainly make a beginning in our work 

 of selection and improvement of the or- 

 chard right now by learning to know just 

 which of our trees is doing the work it 

 is expected to do. — California Fruit 

 Grotver. 



Raising Poultry in Cuba 



