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good layers the year round, chicks grow 
very rapidly and make good broilers in a 
few weeks. Sitting of thirteen eggs, $2.00; 
Hens, $2.50 each; Pullets, $2.00 each; Cocks, 
$3.50 each; Cockerels, $3.00 each: Trio, 
$8.00. These are fine breeding. stock. 
White Plymouth Rock Chickens and dene, 
same price as barred. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS. 
The Light Brahma is a very popular and 
profitable bird; their large bodies and rapid 
zrowth making them a good market fowl. 
They are also an excellent fall and winter 
layer, producing a large part oftheir egg 
when other breeds are not laying and will 
do nearly as well in a cold coop as ina 
warm one, and are the largest among im- 
ported fowls. Sitting of thirteen eggs, 
$2.50; Hens, $4.00 each; Pullets, $3.50 each; 
Cocks, $5.00 each; Cockerels, $4.00 each; 
Trio, $12.00. ; 
BLACK LANGSHANS. 
They are very prolific, thrive well in 
either small enclosures or running at large. 
The chicks when first hatched are about 
half white, and quite frequenly they show 
some white feathers in wings after they 
molt those chick feathers, black feathers 
will come in where the white ones were 
seen. In color the Langshan is a beauti- 
ful glossy black throughout, which makes 
it decidedly handsome. Sitting of thirteen 
eges, $2.00; Hens, $3.00 each; Pullets, $2.50 
each; Cocks, $4.00 each; Cockerels, $3.00 
each; Trio, $9.00. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES. 
This variety has shown its superiority 
as a practical and profitable fowl. Hardy, 
vigorous, a rapid grower, yellow skin, beak 
and legs, compact and plump. body, and 
superior laying qualities, even in very cold 
weather, they combine aS many or more 
good points than any other fowl. Sitting 
of thirteen egg $2.00; Hens, $2.50 each; 
Pullets, $2.00 each; Cocks, $3.50 each; 
Cockerels, $3.00 each; Trio, $8.00. 
CAPONS. 
A capon is a castrated male fowl. The 
act of caponizing consists in the removal 
of the testicles of a cockerel, in order that 
he may grow larger, and become more 
gentle, and fatten more readily than he 
otherwise would. The castrated cockerel, 
Colored variety except 
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or capon, grows somewhat plumper 
fatter, even if not much heavier, than the 
unaltered male, and retains much of th 
tenderness and juiciness of flesh and the 
higher meat value of the spring chicken. 
In addition to its high meat value, 
and 
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capon makes a splendid mother or nurse | 
for young chicks. We have known them to 
protect as many as 60 young chicks at one 
time and they care for them even better 
than a hen would. 
Price, $2.50 each. 
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IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS. 
The Imperial Pekin Duck 
is the most 
popular of all ducks, and. is most ex- 
tensively raised. They are large white 
ducks, in many instances they are a rich 
creamy white. They are very hardy, hav- 
ing seen ducklings at the age of eight 
weeks weigh over four pounds and in full 
feather. 
been known to lay as high as 75 eggs in 
succession, but they lay best when in small 
flocks. Sitting of eleven eggs, $2.00; 
Drake, $3.00; Hen, $2.00; Trio, $6.00. 
WHITE MUSCOVY DUCKS. 
Have been bred from the Colored variety 
by careful selection of the whitest speci- 
mens and now breed true to color. The 
young usually show some black at the top 
of the head and frequently on the back, un- 
derneath the wing, but this disappears after 
the first molt. Unlike others, it molts but 
once a year. The White is the same as the 
in color. Hens, 
$3.00; Drakes, $4.00. 
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