SEED-TIME Al'IB HARVEST- 
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ers take great pride in their flocks of White 
Crested, White Polish and White Crested 
Black Polish chicks with their heavy mili¬ 
tary looking plumes, which, while they 
prevent their seeing an enemy at all times 
do not prevent their pitching into him 
when they do see him. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK COCK. 
The foregoing is a brief summary of the 
European breeds and we now come to an 
American breed that has won an enviable 
reputation, not only for laying, but for ex¬ 
cellence in size, table quality, gentleness, 
and in fact, - all that goes to make up a 
PLYMOUTH ROCK HEN. 
profitable fowl. I refer to the Plymouth 
Rocks, a breed that since its introduction 
some thirty years ago, has steadily increas¬ 
ed in favor and is proving itself to be un¬ 
excelled by any in those points which go 
to make it the fowl for the farmer. In size 
they are large, weighing from six to ten 
pounds. In color the y range from an ashey 
gray to dark gray, but every feather should 
be perfectly marked with its own white 
and blue in proper proportion. Their 
combs are small and not liable to be frozen; 
legs and beaks j r ellow. As winter layers- 
they have prova d themselves equal, if not 
PARTRIDGE cochins. 
I now come to the Asiatic or flesli-pro- 
ducing fowls. While many of these are 
accounted fair layers they cannot compare 
with the smaller varieties in the number of 
eggs they shell out in the course of a year. 
The Cochins and Brahmas are the best 
known of the Asiatic breeds. They were 
formerly of all colors from white *t'o black r 
LIGHT BRAHMAS. 
