LEADING STANDARD VARIETIES 



"As to the beauty of the Siagle-Comb White Leghorn, none 

 can deny but that a well bred, well developed specimen, either 

 male or female is an inspiring sight; the stately, almost haughty 

 bearing of the male, the dignified, graceful female, the beautiful 

 white plumage, bright red combs and yellow legs, the curved 

 back and well rounded breast, all go to make the most beautiful 

 of all our fowls." 



BROWN LEGHORNS 



W. W. KULP, Pottstown, Pa. 



Twenty years ago when I studied the ads I found many 

 breeding Brown Leghorns. Look over the poultry papers today 

 and see how many advertise S. C. Brown Leghorns. Why do 

 they last so long? There are other kinds of Leghorns, some have 



of ours you will find them in long lines in ahnost every show, 

 I have seen ten pens besides the many singles in a local show. 

 This alone will testify to their beauty. The combination of 

 white, black and red, or as in the female white, brown and gold, 

 is always beautiful, then the shape and style are models of grace 

 and beauty. In choosing what breeds I would keep if I wished 

 to have a few to ornament a place, I should select the Brown 

 Leghorns for one. The best specimens bring fine prices, too. 

 A winning male of the top ones will bring $100. and perhaps 

 more. The females will bring fully one-half of it. The market 

 for fine birds is always with us, they can be sold readily. 



It requires skill to breed them as any one well knows who 

 has tried it. They are hardy, matured birds can live anywhere 

 that any other fowls can and will lay eggs if treated right. The 

 young are easy to raise, especially in their season. They can 

 be put out with a hen, given any food that is fit for a young 

 chick and they will thrive. 



FIRST PRIIE COCK. HEN & PULLET 



GROVE MILL POULTRY FARM 



MADISON 5QUARE 



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SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS 



WALTHAM, MASS. 



CHAMPION BROWN LEGHORNS 

 These blue-ribbon winners at America's greatest poultry show, Madison Square Garden, New York, were bred by Grove Hill Poultry Yards, 

 Waltham, Mass., and show the remarkable quality of Grove Hill's strain of Single Comb Brown Leghorns. 



been very popular, they were beautiful and laid well, but their 

 day has passed. 



The qualities that a breed or variety must have to stay 

 popular are beauty, yellow legs, hardiness, requiring skill to 

 breed to standard, young easy to raise, must be either very good 

 for meat or for eggs or combining both. Tliese are about what 

 the American public will demand and no amount of booming 

 wiU keep a breed popular that has not a goodly supply of these 

 quaUties. A breed can be forced on the public for a few years 

 with part of these requirements lacking, but after a few years 

 the boom wanes. 



How many of the above qualities have the Brown Leghorns? 

 If you will take note of all the shows held over this broad land 



One of the great points in favor of the Leghorns is that the 

 young can be raised in a short season in comparison to the 

 larger breeds. This is very important when winter eggs are 

 wanted for, in spite of incubators and brooders, we are often left 

 with too few chicks when April is here, when the earUer broods 

 should be out. 



They are not a meat breed but are good eating. Meat fine 

 and sweet. It has been said that they are not good table fowls. 

 I cannot see why unless you take an overtime young male and 

 kill him right off the range. He will be a httle out of the best 

 condition but that is the persons fault, not that of the breed. 

 They are easy to sell to local trade as small families do not 

 want so many poimds at a meal as the big breeds furnish. Lots 



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