48 Barred and White Plymouth Rocks. 



movements ; they will become dumpish and sickly ; the cocks will 

 lose their natural vigor and amative propensities ; the hens will cease 

 laying, the lice will hold high carnival upon their bodies, and serious 

 loss and bitter disappointment will inevitably result. 



PLYMOUTH ROCKS FOR THE POOR MAN. 



When we look back through the vista of ages, we see as coun- 

 tries grow old, the rich become richer and the poor poorer, and 

 nothing to bridge this great gulf between poverty and wealth, but 

 economy, frugality and industry. There are thousands of poor men 

 in our cities, towns and villages, who live from hand to mouth from 

 one year to another, who could in a measure lighten their burdens 

 and make the hours of relaxation more pleasant and profitable, if 

 they took up fowl raising for their own use, for sale in market, or to 

 private customers at higher prices. 



Plymouth Rocks would be just the breed of fowls that would 

 suit the poor man. They are so easily kept and yarded, their eggs 

 or their living product would find ready sale at any time of the year. 

 The business itself would stimulate one to industry and independ- 

 ence, and in time a handsome revenue would accrue from the sale 

 of eggs and chickens and place the breeder above want. Poultry 

 keeping, too, is considered lucky; indeed, there is a traditionary saying 

 among the Aryan race " There's luck in fowls," and we find the same 

 race in evsry part of the world engaged in the cultivation of poultry. 



PLYMOUTH ROCKS FOR THE FARMER. 



To the farmer, utility is of more importance than gaudy feathers. 

 "Beauty is that beauty does," is an old saying, and the average 

 farmer believes it, too, for he does not want a strictly fancy fowl, and 

 when he looks on the stalwart Plymouth Rock robed in spotless 

 white or in plain home spun dress, it brings to mind the good old 

 Dominique that was the pride of the farmer and the joy of the 

 farmer's wife. 



The son of the soil wants a breed that will mature quickly, 

 make good broilers early in the season, turn a ready dollar when he 

 has no farm product to sell, that can stand the rough and ready usage 

 of the farm, that can lay generously in cold weather, that will weigh 

 heavy without much offal, that can take care of itself for nine months 

 in the year and that can be made profitable living or dead. 



