10 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
ling White Leghorn cock, on a two-year-old Light 
Brahma hen, is by all odds most desirable. The chicks 
mature very rapidly; they are plump and full-breasted 
at nine to twelve weeks old ; they have a bright, yellow 
skin, and no dark pin-feathers. 
I prefer a two-year-old hen to breed from for the reason 
that her chickens are larger and more vigorous than are 
those of a yearling, and they mature much more quickly. 
Next in value for broilers in these markets to this cross, 
{n the succession they are named, are the pure-blood Light ° 
Brahma, Plymouth Rock, White or Buff Jochin, and 
cross of Brown Leghorn on Partridge Cochiu, ail of the age 
of from ten to twelve weeks old if hatched in January or 
February, or nine to eleven weeks old if hatched in 
March or April, they growing a little more rapidly then 
than the earlier hatched birds. For early roasters, for 
these markets, I prefer a cross of Plymouth Rock year- 
ling cock on Light Brahma hen, the latter furnishing 
the large frame-work on which the blood of the former 
builds a full-breasted, quick-maturing fine-meated bird. 
Light Brahma cockerels, nine to twelve months old, make 
_good and marketable roasters, but they are not so profit- 
able to raise as the cross I have named. 
MANAGEMENT AND FEED. 
As much depends on the management of the chickens, 
however, as on the characteristics of the different breeds. 
A good poultryman may, with poor stock, succeed better 
than would a bad manager with the best of stock. 
It is of great importance, in raising chickens, that they 
should be well supplied with a variety of food. ‘Short 
commons” does not pay in chicken raising. The com- 
mon custom is to keep a dish of ‘Indian meal dough ” 
mixed up, and three times a day a lot is thrown down to 
the chickens. If they eat it, well and good ; if not, and 
the chances are they will not, having become tired of one 
