l(> BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



than will be readily taken by the market. Where growers 

 fail oftenest is in the use of breeding stock not capable of 

 producing really good broilers and in loss of quality of 

 meat through slow growth of chicks. 



What has been said of color should be qualified with 

 reference to squab broilers. Black or dark feathered 

 chickens when killed for squab broilers have a blueness of 

 the skin on some parts of the carcass which disappears as 

 they grow older, but ■which at this stage renders it very 

 uninviting in appearance. 



A chick with black or dark pinfeathers, while it may be 

 dressed clean when of a pound to two pounds weight is 

 more difficult to make attractive looking than a chick with 

 white or buff plumage in which the pinfeathers need not 



