S. J. Wright, Vineland, N. J. My Anconas are laying fine, and beat ny LegfhorM 

 all to pieces. 



Mrs. J. G. Arrington, Castalian Springs, Tenn.: Anconas mature so rapidly that thejr 

 are often laying at four and one-half months old, and lay during the coldest weather whea 

 eggs are high. This is the secret of their popularity. 



De Lloyd Schell,Battle Creek, Michigan: I have had a good deal of experience with 

 several breeds of chickens, but after this it's Anconas for mine. I never worked with stock 

 where I got such a large percentage of exhibition birds as with Anconas. 



Mrs. Geo. W. Skinner, Geneva, 111.: I have had twenty-eight years experience keep* 

 ing poultry, and have had about every breed. Have had Anconas for the past fiveyeart, 

 and they lay more and eat less than ony other breed. 



Frank P. Potter, Liverpool, Pa.: My seventeen May hatched Ancona pullets are but 

 twenty-three eggs behind a flock of forty first-class pullets of White and Brown LeghorM 

 and B. P. Rocks. 



Peter C. Schmahl, Buffalo, N. Y.: Anconas are the greatest fowls on earth. 

 Howard T. Baldwin, Denver, Colorado: Our neighbors and friends have marvelled at 

 the way our Anconas shelled out the eggs during the months of December and January 

 while people with flocks of fifty or sixty of mixed varieties were buying eggs for their own use. 

 C. H. Musselman, Cabazon, California: No bird has made such progress on the Pa- 

 cific slope during the past few years as has the Ancona. The Ancona is rightfully dubbed 

 "The Business Bird," for when it comes to producing winter eggs she has no competitors 

 but s^nds supreme in a class alone. 



Mrs. J. E. Fay, Elmira, N. Y.: I have a pen of fifteen Anconas that lay from ten to 

 twelve eggs every day. Anconas are the best fowls I ever had, as well as the handsomest. 

 Joseph Pettipher, near Banbury, England: I kept Anconas away back in the seventies 

 and am greatly interested in the breed. I am a great believer in them as egg producers. 



Mrs. L. W. Gilbert, Tipton, Mo.: 1 have nine Ancona pullets laying at four and one- 

 half to five months old. Anconas develop quicker than my Wyandottes and I like them 

 fine. 



S. B. Lininger, Greenfield, Ind.: Anconas beat all other breeds as layers. 

 John C. Meyer, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin : Anconas stand first for maturing early, first 

 as egg producers, and first for beauty. 



F. D. Green, ZephyrhiU, Florida: I have a pen of nine Ancona hens and three pullets 

 that laid 1206 eggs in five months. While I was living in Washington I got more eggs 

 from fifteen Anconas than my neighbors did from seventy-five to one hundred hens of other 

 breeds. 



John B. Firestone, Spencer, Ohio: If you want fowls for eariy maturity, eggs of good 

 size and lots of them, get Anconas. I have bred them for years, iand am highly pleased 

 with them. 



Mrs. Constance Bouriay, of Frankley Rectory, Birmingham, England, says In Wright's 

 Book of Poultry: For many years we kept a few fowls. They were expected to eat up the 

 house scraps, lay a few eggs, and occasionally appear at the table. They often died and 

 no eggs were even hoped for in the winter. Then we awoke to a sense of our own stupidity 

 and began to do better; but very early we were obliged to recognize the importance of clil 

 matic conditions, and how much they were against us. Living on the top of a hill 740 feet 

 above the sea, exposed to every wind particulariy the north and east, with a heavy clay 

 soil which held all moisture, and winters that begin early and end late —on. breed after 

 another failed. Then by chance we bought a sitting of Ancona eggs. They hatched well, 

 the chicks grew wonderfully fast, and when wmter came seemed indifferent to soil atad cli- 



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