1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
459 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
The Plymouth Rock fowl is, to-day, 
known, admired and profitably bred 
from the inhabitable limits of the Brit¬ 
ish possessions on the north, to the 
boundaries of the United States on the 
south, from the Atlantic coast on the 
east to the Pacific coast on the west, and 
it has crossed the waters, finding a wel¬ 
come in the countries beyond the seas, 
and on the islands thereof, until to day 
in America there are more Plymouth 
Rocks bred than there are of all other 
so-called “thoroughbreds” combined. 
It is pertinent to inquire why this is 
so. The answer need require but few 
words—it is preeminently an all-purpose 
fowl, adapted, from its hardiness, to all 
climates, and equally at home and ready 
for business in any of them. It is a 
universal hustler, and the best market 
poultry bird ever known—having the 
size, shape and habits that everywhere, 
other conditions being equal, return the 
most dollars and cents for feed and labor 
given. As a general proposition, all 
domestic fowls end, if profitable, by 
“ going to the pot.” The Plymouth Rock 
pays as well as any, performs its mission 
living as well as any—better than most— 
and pays better than any other breed 
when it goes to market, its earthly 
career ended. This last quality is the 
secret of the success of the Plymouth 
Rock. 
In another paper we find the following 
statement by Mr. Upham : “I originated, 
named and first exhibited the Barred 
Plymouth Rock fowl of to-day, and first 
exhibited them at Worcester, Mass., in 
March, 1867. They were produced by a 
first cross of an old-fashioned, hawk- 
colored, barnyard, single-comb cock, on 
an Asiatic Black Cochin hen, progeny of 
Cochins imported by John Giles, of Put¬ 
nam, Conn. Second cross was by me, 
progeny of first cross bred to a Gray 
Chittagong male, which was hatched 
from eggs purchased of G. P. Burnham, 
of Boston, birds imported by him, which 
he called Gray ChittagoDg, or Brahma¬ 
pootra, very large, handsome, smooth¬ 
legged fowls. The progeny of this cross 
were bred in and in by me, until I 
showed the first three pairs of what I 
named Plymouth Rocks, as above stated. 
This is a true statement of the breeding, 
naming and first exhibiting of the mod¬ 
ern Plymouth Rocks of to-day.” 
chicks in a brooder. I had a pullet 
hatched in 1894, that commenced to lay 
at seven months, and in 140 days laid 120 
eggs ; but they do not all lay as well as 
she did. 
I cannot say how they would suit on a 
farm, but I think that if they were 
yarded and not left to run in the barn 
yard among the cattle and other stock, 
as they are a little clumsy and likely to 
get crippled, they would do very well. 
But as a cross with the Brown Leghorn, 
they make a fine and profitable fowl for 
the farm. I have two friends who have 
tried them, and they speak highly of 
them as layers ; and then they breed all 
one color. The P. C. was my first choice 
of purebred fowls, and I have been 
breeding them for 20 years. I have tried 
many others, but discarded them all, 
and stick to my first choice. Not that 
the breeds that 1 have tried have not 
their good qualites, also, but they did 
not suit me and my limited quarters so 
well. H. WILKINSON. 
THE PARTRIDGE COCHIN FOWL. 
This is an old-established breed and, 
therefore, needs no description. To me, 
they are the most beautiful of the Cochin 
family ; the rich, brown plumage of the 
hen, penciled with a darker shade, is 
certainly pleasing to the eye. And the 
cock with his red or orange-colored 
hackle, and saddle feathers striped with 
black, and his solid black breast, metallic 
green and bay on his wing, bright-red 
comb and wattles, and his stately car¬ 
riage make a picture of beauty. For 
town or city, this breed will not fail to 
please, as the plumage does not become 
soiled. They stand confinement better 
than any other breed I know, and are 
very hardy, seldom showing any signs of 
being out of perfect health. Their eggs 
usually hatch well, the chicks are strong 
and healthy, and mature very fast for a 
large breed. I now have a pair of chicks 
hatched March 16, making them 14 weeks 
old, that weigh six pounds, and have 
never been on the grass. 
The Cochins are large eaters if given 
all they will eat; that is where so many 
make a mistake in thinking that because 
they are large, they must have all they 
will eat. They take on fat very rapidly, 
consequently do not lay much. I feed 
very little to my Cochins, keeping them 
hungry all the time, and they prove to 
be good layers. I started January 1, 
with 10 pullets, let eight of them hatch, 
and lost two through carelessness. To 
May 31, they laid 439 eggs, or 36 7-12 
dozens. I took the chicks from the hens 
as soon as hatched, as I raise all my 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
No Science, But Eggs. —I have read 
your articles on the hen, with a good 
deal of interest. You called some time 
ago for practical experience, I think. 
I will give you something different from 
the theories. An old Scotchman had 
about 100 of any or no breed. A few 
seemed to have a little of the old English 
Dorking — plump bodies, short legged. 
He always got plenty of eggs; all the 
year ’round some, during the heavy lay¬ 
ing season often as many as 40 dozen 
per week. Most of these hens had no 
shelter at night, beyond that a bare 
apple tree gave, and were fully exposed 
to western and northern blasts, winter 
and summer. Now for the feed. Corn 
meal and what is called here, brown 
stuff, half and half by measure, mixed 
with boiling water, very dry and allowed 
to cool, twice a day, as much as they 
could eat up clean. No bones, no meat, 
plenty of oyster shells, and the milk, 
perhaps a gallon, after skimming, when 
the cow was in milk. Sometimes, in 
very cold weather, a little corn was 
given at night when the means would 
allow. I tried to get him to keep an 
account of the eggs so as to judge the 
number from each hen, but could not 
do so. One thing I do know, he would 
be getting eggs when none of his neigh¬ 
bors had any, and always topped me, 
though I fed more muscle-making foods, 
including meat and bone. I should say 
the hens were very active and great 
foragers—having unlimited range over 
a good thick sod containing a good many 
wild leguminous plants. j. c. 
Henrico County, Va. 
Do Dogs Reason ?—About eight weeks 
ago, I bought a St. Bernard puppy to 
amuse my little ones, and they named 
him Tacho, a Spanish name, the name 
of a favorite mastiff of theirs that we 
had left behind us in South America. Its 
mother is called Diana. She did not see 
me when I took away her puppy, but as 
we live less than a mile from the place, 
a few days ago, she saw the puppy and 
instantly recognized it as hers. She 
tried every device in reason to entice 
Tacho away, but he could not be in¬ 
duced to accompany her farther than 
the road. He was too large for her to 
carry. Every morning for a week, the 
same programme was enacted, but Tacho 
could not be prevailed upon to desert his 
new home and master. I was surprised 
one morning to see Diana vt ith a piece 
of raw meat in her mouth, waiting out¬ 
side for Tacho. Supposing, naturally, 
that she had brought it to give him to 
eat, I let the puppy out, to see what 
would be done. It never occurred to me 
that she could have reasoned, or had any 
design further than her natural instinct 
in the matter. Judge my surprise, when, 
instead of giving it to him to eat, she 
only allowed the puppy to smell of the 
meat, and then raising her head out of 
his reach, slowly walked off, and thus 
“ his appetite overcame his judgment,” 
and Tacho followed her off. Three times 
I called him back, and three times she 
returned and enticed him off, the last 
time graciously allowing him to have a 
taste of the meat. I then locked Tacho 
up, much to the disgust of Diana. Now 
did Diana reason out this method to 
entice her puppy back home? She de¬ 
nied herself of the meat, and came here 
from her own home for the evident pur¬ 
pose of enticing Tacho away. I confess 
that I cannot explain it upon any other 
hypothesis, but that Diana reasoned. 
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