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make as choice eating a as any, as their bones 
are smaller and ‘their ‘frames lighter and 
therefore more. meaty. Their activity also 
appeals to.me as they are great workers. 
While it is sometimes provoking to see an 
unclipped hen sail over a 7-foot fence, still 
it is preferable to the slow action of the big 
ones. A good many people have said to me 
that they wanted a breed of fowl that when 
butchered to eat, would weigh more than the 
Leghorn, but if one is in the eg gg business 
the meat part is of secondary importance. 
A fowl is killed but once. At the end of two 
years one of a heavy breed would return in 
flesh two or three pounds more than a Leg- 
horn—worth 35 to 50 cents—but if the Leg- 
horn would not return more than 25 cents a 
year in eggs, my experience doesn’t count 
for much. 
_ VALUE OF WELL KNOWN STRAIN 
: Here is a good place to call attention to 
one feature of the business whereby some 
poultrymen increase their average profit a. 
head; that is, by having a well known, well 
advertised breed or strain. They are thus 
enabled to sell those hens at the end of what 
they consider the most profitable laying 
term, for an advanced price over the meat 
