1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3 o 3 
>1 SMALL BIRD WITH BROWN EGG. 
One of our readers in Massachusetts has 
asked us the following question : “Which of 
the following breeds. Brahma, Wyandotte, 
Plymouth Rock or Rhode Island Red, is the 
best to cross with Brown or White Leghorn. 
I want the smallest-sized hen that will lay 
a dark egg.” 
In our experience we believe that for 
brown eggs the Brown Leghorn crossed 
with the Barred Plymouth Rock is best. 
WESLEY D. EM PIE. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y., 
I have crossed B. P. Rocks with Brown 
Leghorns. The result was a black fowl, 
larger than the Leghorn, good layers of 
medium-sized, light-colored eggs. I think 
I would prefer the Wyandottes to the 
other breeds. e. b. ketcham. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
Tf he wants a little hen why does he 
not get a bantam ? There must be several 
that lay dark eggs. I have never dab¬ 
bled in them, so do not know which ones 
do. There is a R. I. Red Bantam, but I 
never saw one. ■ Some one advertises 
them; their eggs, I think, were 50 
cents each. Now for the question: Leg¬ 
horn cock, white eggs, Brahma, Rock, 
Red, Wyandotte is the order of size, all 
brown egg. Brahma too big. I should 
try White Rock from a dark-egg strain, 
for if an ordinary or light-egg strain 
was used the eggs would be very p&le in 
color of shell. It is true that Rocks, 
Reds and Wyandottes in the Standard 
have a too heavy weight for practical 
poultry, and now the powers that be (A. 
P. A.) have made the new American 
a pound heavier. Walter sherman. 
Newport Co., R. I. 
The best cross ever made with a White 
Leghorn was upon Light Brahma hens. 
You must in a cross have first-class poul¬ 
try, as well as dark eggs. A Leghorn is 
a small carcass that hardens quickly. It 
should be crossed with a breed that re¬ 
mains soft in muscles the greatest length 
of time. 1 his, you know, is character¬ 
istic of the Brahma. Again, the Brahma 
lays a dark-shelled egg, and controls that 
color in the shell to a greater tenacity, 
and being a purebred has this greater 
strength to control first-class poultry, and 
large-sized and dark-shelled eggs. The 
cross becomes a cross of two absolute 
purebreds, which means the greatest num¬ 
ber of eggs. All the other crosses you 
name, Rock and Wyandottes, and R. I. 
Reds are of a composite origin, made up 
of two or more breeds, and will not 
have that control of the breeding with 
the purebred Leghorns that the Brahma 
will. Again, with Brahmas the progeny 
will be a uniform white fowl and just 
what any market caterer wants. If for 
the egg alone, and you do not care how 
small they are, nor whether the chickens 
are of all colors, then your R. I. Reds 
will secure you an egg'with dark shell, 
or ought to, but it will depend altogether 
on the prepotency of the R. I. Reds. The 
progeny will be small, not much larger 
than the Leghorns, but the poultry will 
not be as nice, nor do I beli.eve as a 
whole that the cross will be as profitable 
for one to raise. Either the White 
Rock or White Wyandottes bred to 
White Leghorns will give almost wholly 
white eggs. But in all probability the 
cross with White Rock gives the larger 
number of eggs. The cross with the 
Brahmas will bring you a very large 
per cent of non-sitters, strange as it may 
seem. i. K . felch. 
Massachusetts. 
K 
THE BEST ROASTER 
Dorking cockerel on Brahma hens, two 
years old, give the best roasters. I have stu¬ 
died and bred poultry on and off for 30 to 
40 years, and while admitting the merits of 
many breeds as table fowls, notably the Ply¬ 
mouth Rock, Wyandotte, Langshans, etc., I 
am satisfied there is nothing in the poultry 
line that can equal the Brahma. The only 
thing lacking in the Brahma is the quantity 
of breast meat. This the Dorking supplies. 
If your correspondent wants the best table 
fowl let him make the cross here suggested 
using colored Dorking with dark Brahma 
hens, and Silver Gray Dorking with Light 
Brahma hens, and he will have It. A cross of 
this kind, well cared for and properly fed, will 
make the highest quality, (’aponize the males 
and fatten the females as they reach matur¬ 
ity. and you have it. Such fowls as these 
will weigh seven to eight pounds and upward. 
I have grown them to weigh nine to 10 
pounds. hot 
Red Bank. N. J. 
The Best Roaster Breeds. 
T do not think the subject broached on page 
234, and there answered by five correspond¬ 
ents, has yet reached a broadly comprehen¬ 
sive reply. The three breeds mentioned by 
the querist as being already in his hands rep¬ 
resent that high average of quality which 
Americans are prone to assert is the best, 
being really unacquainted with the best. I 
am speaking not merely of proportion of meat 
to bone and offal, but of true delicacy and 
sweet flavor of the meat. The Dorking is 
so far superior to any American breed, as I 
have proved by a personal trial, that it con¬ 
stitutes a class by itself. It has the smallest 
bone of any fowl, and its carcass is heavy 
with flesh that is not fat, but tender meat, 
always ready for the table. Rut suppose we 
fatten it; there will not be that great accu¬ 
mulation of lump fat in the rear alwlomen. 
hut well placed throughout, and most espe¬ 
cially layer fat about the breast, where it 
will do the most good by impregnating the 
breast in roasting. However, the Dorking is 
a highly artlfieiallzed departure from the 
original stock. It is a slow grower, and 
should demand the enhanced price that it 
costs to produce it on that account. In the 
Indian Game we have another artificial prod¬ 
uct, in quite a different type, but a meat pro¬ 
ducer of a high order. These two breeds 
when crossed make a quicker growing fowl, 
which carries a quality of meat scarcely in¬ 
ferior to the Dorking here, and is the popu¬ 
lar winner at English dressed poultry shows. 
Then there are the Orpingtons, which are 
forging ahead very rapidly in this country. 
They may be said to be the only breed that 
was worked out along strictly utilitarian 
lines. They are modified Dorkings. The 
black variety has the most desirable traits 
from the Dorking. Langslian and Plymouth 
Rock, and with such a happy blending of 
characteristics that certain defects of make¬ 
up for carcass are eliminated. The Buff Or¬ 
pington took its Asiatic blood from the 
Cochin and retains so dense a plumage that 
it withstands cold to a remarkable degree, 
a valuable adjunct to a good roaster whose 
sisters are to help keep house. There are 
still others besides the Orpingtons which 
have borrowed the quality of flesh from the 
Dorking race. Among these is the recent 
importation known as Faverolles. Then the 
IToudan is another, well and favorably known 
in this country, to a select few during nearly 
half a century. But the man who takes up 
these muffed and crested varieties must have 
a predilection for fighting varmints—big 
and little. Among the choicest breeds for 
roasters is the Sherwood, originally a cross 
of Brahma and White Game. Though never 
having enjoyed a boom, it has won warm en¬ 
comiums for its strictly practical traits; 
large dark eggs from the females in abun¬ 
dance. And as a table fowl it. has been re¬ 
ported upon even from Europe, where the 
cook of some dignitary claimed that as a 
roaster the Sherwood was equal to a capon. 
I have never tried them. But from my ex¬ 
periences with roasting fowls derived from 
the Dorking crosses, and the Orpington with 
its similar origin, if for private use or a dis¬ 
criminating market, do not overlook the best 
nor bear it any prejudice because it has 
somewhat a different, look to what we are 
familiar with. ered w. proctor. 
Massachusetts. 
The American GirL 
WHAT MAKES HER POPULAR. 
The American girl is admired and liked 
at home and abroad because she is the 
happiest, usually the healthiest arid friend¬ 
liest of girls. She is fond of life and is 
alive to everything beautiful and good in 
existence. Mrs. Langtry has said that the 
American woman has little to learn from 
her English sisters. 
Dr. Pierce, the specialist in women’s dis¬ 
eases, of Buffalo, N. Y., advises simple ex¬ 
ercises for women, preferably in the out¬ 
door air. But many women are confined 
to the house and their household duties or 
their business confines them to poorly ven¬ 
tilated rooms. 
If a woman suffers from a headache, a 
backache, a sensation of irritability or 
twitching and uncontrollable nervousness, 
something must be wrong with the head or 
back, she naturally says, but all the time 
the real trouble very often centers in the 
womanly organs. In 98 per cent, of cases 
the seat of the difficulty is here, and a 
woman should take rational treatment for 
its cure. The local disorder and inflamma¬ 
tion of the delicate special organs of the 
eex should be treated steadily and system¬ 
atically. 
Backed up by over a third of a century of 
remarkable and uniform cures, a record 
such as no other remedy for the diseases 
and weaknesses pepuliar to women ever 
attained, the proprietors and makers of Dr. 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription now feel fully 
warranted in offering to pay $500 for any 
case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro¬ 
lapsus, or Falling of Womb which they 
cannot cure. All they ask is a fair and 
reasonable trial of their means of cure. 
Barred Rocks 
Cox’s Barred Rocks combine .quantity, quality and 
utility. Ringlet strain, farm raised, satisfaction 
guaranteed. Eggs $1 per 15. J.W.Cox, NewWllmlngton, Pa. 
ONLY FINE BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
on my place. Eggs, $1.00 for 15. or $4.00 for 100. 
E. W. JENKINS, Dover. Delaware. 
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15 eggs $2, 30 eggs $3.50: safe arrival guaranteed, 
SIDNEY SPRAGUE, Falconer, New York. 
BUFF, White Leghorns. Eggs 75c per 15, $1.25 per 30, 
$2 per 00. Cir. free. JOHN A. KOTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
R OSE COMB BUFF LEGHORNS; prize winning 
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East Haven. Conn. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
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Trios, $5: Eggs, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
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I IGHT BRAHMA COCKERELS, PRIZE STOCK. 
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Hastens growth of little chicks 
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PEKIN DUCKS AND 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
200 April hatched ducks, $150 to $2.50 each. Buck 
egg orders booked, $1 15 for 11; $8 per hundred. 
Leghorns are the real egg machines. Eggs for Incu¬ 
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White Plymouth Rocks RftifTgSna 
$1 pet 15, $5 per 100. Isaac C. Clark, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
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all colors. Two roots, 25c.; 10, $1. Post-paid. 
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RRFn FflR FftfiR -Our Barred Rocks lay 256 to 
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Eggs carefully packed: orders promptly filled. YVhito 
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Brown, Rose and Single Comb White Leghorns; 
Anconas; Black and White Minorcas. 
Otselic Farms, Whitney’s Point, N. Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING from Silver Penciled Wy¬ 
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Brown Leghorns, $1 per setting. 
A. S. BEEKMAN, South Branch, Now Jei'sey. 
ItEKIN DUCK EGGS 
MM FOR HATCHING, PURE WHITE DUCKS 
13 EGGS, $1.25; 26, $2; 100, $6 
“ John H. Gamber, R. F. D„ No. 1 Lancaster, Pa. 
Mammoth Pekin Ducks’ Eggs 
$1 for 11; $7 per hundred. Also S. C. White Leg¬ 
horns, Anconas, S. C. Black Minorca, $1 for 13; $5 per 
100. GEO. W. DeRIDDER, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
FOB SALE Fifteen Eggs $1, from my celebrated 
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best layers read the Business Hen. Address, 
ARTHUR GATCHELL, Alton, Wayne Co,. N. Y. 
WRIGHT’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
(Duston Strain) Eggs, 75 ets. per 15; $4 per 100. 
Grandview Farm, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
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Eggs $1 per setting; $4 per 100. C. A. Hall, Oak Hill, N.Y. 
lAfHITE WYANDOTTES, 400 layers, bred for 
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W. C. VALENTINE,Huntington, R. F.D.,New York. 
S, C, White Leghorns ^forhatching, 
.. . T ... ® r . T . T „ from birds bred 
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FOR HATCHING 
$2.00 for 13 
From prize-winning breeds S. C. Brown 
Leghorns, White Wyandottes, Barred and 
. ^ nite Rocks. Price of Cockerelsand Pullets 
$3.00 each. Trios $7.60. Green’s Poultry 
Book for 25 cents. 
GREEN'S NURSERY CO., 
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EGGS 
Buff Wyandotte Eggs for 
sale. $1 for a setting of 15, 
or $4 a 100. Chas. I. Miller, 
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„ ,EGGS FOR HATCHING 
Booking orders now for S. C. White and Brown Leg¬ 
horns. Black Minorcas. White Wyandottes, White 
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Poultry 
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y. (Estab. 1888.) Hartford, Conn. 
