FANCIERS’ JOURNAL 
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POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 19, 1874. No. 12. 












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IMPORTED PARTRIDGE COCHINS, “JHWETT” AND “LADY JANE.” 
Property of T. S. CoopEr, “ Linden Grove Stock Farm,” Coopersburg, Pa. 4G See advertisement. 
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(For Fanciers’ Journal.) | and causing a large portion of their food, which should go 
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING OF LIGHT BRAHMAS to make bone and muscle, to be expended in keeping up 
FOR EXHIBITION. ‘animal heat. Another difficulty with early hatched broods 
'is, the hen often leaves them before warm weather sets in 
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|or they are fully fledged, when they apparently become 
TIME VOR SHATCHING), CARB, AND PEEDING- stunted, and seldom, if ever, make large fowls. On the 
Ir may not be amiss just here to say a few words in re- other hand, those hatched about the middle of April or first 
gard to the proper time of hatching this variety. Experi-| of May have the advantage of warm weather, and with 
ence hag convinced me that little, if anything, is gained in good care and feeding will catch up with and pass, and 
size by having the chicks hatched before the middle or eventually make larger birds than those hatched two 
latter part of April. This, I am’aware, is contrary to the months earlier. Well, then having removed your hen with 
prevailing opinion of many breeders; but the largest cock- | her brood to a perfectly dry coop, or what is better, remove 
erel I ever bred was hatched April 14th this season (18738), | the nest from the pen in which they were hatched (which, 
and weighed ten pounds and six ounces, at twenty-four | I think, every one will agree is just the thing for a hen and 
weeks old. If hatched during the cold, chilly days of Feb- chickens), the next question which presents itself is, how to 
ruary or March, they are often attacked with cramp or get them to grow to the greatest possible size, I have ob- 
rheumatism and leg-weakness; the unfavorableness of el tained very good results by the following method: To one 
weather preventing them from taking sufficient exercise,’ pint of corn meal add one teaspoonful of salt and one table 
