SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



of white eggs are the Leghorns strong hold and they can well fill 

 and hold it. Records of from 200 up to 250 in twelve months 

 liave been made and they can do it easily, but man must manage 

 them properly to do it. A 240-egg hen requires a man or woman 

 who is a 240-egg manager, too. 



Mr. C. E. Howell used to say that the Leghorns, he kept 

 the S. C. Browns, laid so well that we could afford to throw the 

 ibody away after they were done laying and yet have more in 

 the end than if we kept heavy breeds. 



BUFF LEGHORNS 



All Leghorns lay well and the Buff variety is not behind the 

 others in this respect. Since this variety was introduced it has 

 become wonderfully popular and breeders have succeeded in 

 producing some very remarkable specimens of beautiful buff color 

 combined with Leghorn size, shape and sprightly carriage. They 

 are cjuite as large as the White and some run even larger, and they 

 produce a, good sized white egg. The fancier wiU find them a 

 beautiful and most attractive fowl, possessed of all the good 

 points to be found in the excellent Leghorn family. They are 

 bred with single combs only. They are hardy, easily raised and 

 non-sitters. They do well in confinement but are naturally 

 rangers and foragers and will "fly the coop" at the first oppor- 

 tunity. It takes high fences or' covered runs to keep them in 

 if penned, even id fair sized yards. 



Buff, White or Brown Leghorn chicks will make good 

 broilers, friers and small individual roasters, but the White 

 variety is much to be preferred for this purpose on account of 

 the absence of dark pin feathers. Leghorns are better suited 

 to farms with Uberal range than to city or town lots, although 

 it properly confined in such locations will do well and prove a 

 profitable investment., 



PROFITABLE BLACK MINORCAS 



Mr. Geo. H. Northup, Raceville, N. Y., who deserves more 

 credit than any other American breeder for popularizing and 

 uplifting the Black 'Minorcas, writes: 



Black Minorcas are among the chief varieties of poultry. 

 They stand at the head of all breeds as layers of large white 

 eggs. The fu'st and second prizes for the "best dozen white 

 eggs" at the 1906 Boston Show were won by Minorcas. Black 

 Minorcas, both Single and Rose-Comb, are the largest non- 

 sitting varieties known, and they are also excellent for table 

 use. My sales of Black Minorcas during the first six months of 

 1906 amounted to more than $2,000, and on the 20th of Feb- 

 ruary I found that I had sold every Minorca that I could spare 

 excepting a few of the lower priced cockerels. During this 

 time I refused requests for many special birds which I could not 

 supply so that my sales of Single-Comb Black Minorcas alone 

 would have more than doubled the amount mentioned had I 

 been able to take care of the demand. 



After selling my surplus I learned that Dr. C. J. Andruss 

 had sold his farm and for that reason would dispose of his 

 Minorcas. I lost no time in purchasing his entire stock and 

 advertising the greater part of it for sale. The result was that 

 in about two weeks time all of the Dr. Andruss' stock was sold 

 exceptmg a sufficient number of the finest females to fill two 

 breeding pens. If there is anyone who has good Black Minorca 

 hens to sell in the spring of the year, it would be to their advan- 

 tage to advertise the fact in the poultry journals, because I 

 know there are hundreds now who wish to buy them. There is 

 every indication of a brilliant season for the Black Minorcas, 

 both Rose and Single-Comb. 



Dr. W. F. Holmes, Randolph, Mass., answers the question 

 "Why do we hear so little about the Single-Comb Black Minor- 

 cas" as follows: 



It is my desire to say a few words for the benefit of those 

 not acquainted with the virtues of this beautiful and useful 

 breed of fowl, so that some who are comtemplating breeding 

 them and are auxioiis to breed the best, may know a few of 

 their good quahties. 



Many and possibly the majority of the general poultry 

 public are of the opinion that Minorcas are not hardy, are of a 

 delicate constitution and easily affected by the cold of our New 

 England winters. This is an entirely wrong impression and 

 has arisen probably because of the extremely large combs these 

 fowls possess. 



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BLACK MINORCA COCKEREL 

 This male won the special for the best comb and head at the Madi- 

 son Square Garden, New York, show, 1906. He is owned by Frank 

 McGrann, Lancaster, Pa. 



Single-Comb Black Minorcas are in my opinion one of the 

 most pleasing and best paying varieties of fowl known today. I 

 make this statement only after many years of careful breeding 

 both of Minorcas and other popular breeds. Because of the 

 general impression of the inabihty of these fowl to withstand 

 cold many people keep them in air-tight houses and supply 

 artificial heat, thus converting a naturally hardy-constitutioned 

 bird into one with weak powers of resistance; then when sub- 

 jected to cold winds and weather the birds develop severe colds 

 or other diseases and they are credited with being a fowl ex- 

 tremely susceptible to ilbiess. This is not the fault of the breed, 

 but of the breeder. You can make any variety delicate by 

 such treatment. 



The first necessity in breeding Minorcas, as in breeding any 

 other fowl, is to have strong, vigorous foundation stock. I jae- 

 lieve in breeding Minorcas we should select only those birds 



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