BREEDING AND BREEDS lOS 



9^ pounds; hen, /J^ pounds; cockerel, 8 pounds; 

 pullet, 6j/2 pounds. The growing chicks possess a 

 characteristic rarely found in such desirable per- 

 fection in any other breed. When properly managed 

 they are in splendid table condition from the time 

 they are eight weeks old up to maturity. It is also 

 claimed the old fowls easily get in fat condition 

 and are superior in quality to other breeds at the 

 same age. The hens are excellent mothers, and will 

 often recommence laying in eight weeks, and still 

 continue attentively to mother their broods. They 

 are good winter layers ; and it is the winter eggs 

 that make poultry keeping pay. The eggs are of 

 good size and are classed as brown. The breed is 

 a vigorous one, prolific, and the percentage of fer- 

 tility of the egg is always high. The chicks are 

 sprightly and strong from the very start. 



Pullets will often commence egg laying when 

 they are six months old ; even those that are hatched 

 late in the season will do so when their six months 

 end as late as December, providing, of course, they 

 have been properly cared for. One of the excellent 

 features about their laying is that when they com- 

 mence they make a business of it. They do not, 

 like some of the Asiatics, lay less than a dozen eggs, 

 and then persist in sitting. 



LEGHORN FOWLS 



For the production of large numbers of eggs, the 

 White Leghorn is most popular the country over. 

 The breed is a hardy one of small to medium size. 

 The weights seldom exceed seven pounds unless the 

 fowls are specially bred for size. Probably the 

 generality of people succeed better in getting good 



