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Show INTEREST BOYS IN POULTRY No Part of Farming That Is More Fascinating Fas-cinating to Average Youth Than Care of Chickens. (By KATHERIN-E A. GRIMES.) There Is no part of farming more fascinating to the average boy than the care of poultry. At the same time there is no branch that offers him a better chance of success. The equipment ned not cost much, and, in, fact, most of the needed coops md fixtures can be built by almost Silver Wyandotte Hen. any ambitious boy with very little expenditure ex-penditure outside of his own work. Then a small outlay for eggs or a trifle larger one for stock, and he Is ready for business. The most important consideration Is the breed to be kept It all depends upon the market which will pay the best. The layers are seldom as good for raising, frying and broiling as some of the larger breeds, as they usually weigh less at the same age, though maturing even more quickly in the matter of egg-producing. So, if you wish to keep Wyan-dottes, Wyan-dottes, Leghorns, or Orpington's or Rhode Island Reds, you will be perfectly per-fectly safe In. doing so, no matter what some one else may say in favor of other breeds. |