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best meat breeds, either for soft roasters or capons; the Silver 

 Campine is essentially an egg producer, and is not desirable for 

 .table poultry. When I say "not desirable for table poultry" I 

 mean that it is not in popular demand, and not particularly pro- 

 fitable as such. The Campine is small, inclined to be dry and 

 stringy, and the color of its carcass does not meet with market 

 requirements. They find a sale, of course, but the prices received 

 are below those gotten for the Brahmas. 



Fig. 8.— White Plymouth Rocks. 



Breeds for Particular Purposes. — The person who starts out 

 with a particular specialty firmly fixed in his mind should make 

 everything subordinate to this end. If he has his mind made up 

 on a broiler plant, well and good, he will do well to choose the 

 Wyandotte, all other things being equal. See Fig. 7. He might 

 also select the Plymouth Rock or the Rhode Island Red, or nu- 

 merous others, but he would be heading wrong to pick out, let 



