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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



for the month; the best that loo pens could do in the 

 dull, discouraging month of November. 



Leading the 131 pens in the Competition in the 

 warmer state of Missouri, a pen of Black Orpingtons 

 made, in November, a record of loi eggs. The next 

 best record was 82 eggs from a pen of Silver Wyandottes 

 (the original Wyandottes). Other pens even of Leg- 

 horns have made records of 3, 2, i, and alas! zero. A 

 report from Australia appearing at the same time 

 showed twelve pens of White Leghorns, five pens of 

 Black Orpingtons, one pen of Silver Wyandottes, and one 

 pen of Barred Rocks, making records of more than 600 

 eggs per pen for the first six months. The White Leg- 

 horns, let the Beginner remember, are in the Mediterra- 

 nean Class ; the Orpingtons in the English Class, and 

 the others in the American Class. The Asiatics do not 

 appear as a Class, but their blood is in all but the Leg- 

 horns — that is, in all these general-purpose birds. The 

 showing is good for the general-purpose varieties. 



