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Show ADVICE CAN'T BE FOLLOWED Impossible to Have Egg Layers Alone, Consequently Farmers Must Keep General Purpose Fowl. The advice is given generally to select se-lect an egg breed for egg production, but on the average this advice cannot be followed very well, as the principal egg breeds, Leghorns, Anconas and Minorcas are poor mothers and can scarcely be kept to advantage unless incubators and brooders are employed in raising the chickens. Consequently Consequent-ly a majority of farmers and back yard poultry men are forced to keep a general purpose breed. Of these the Barred Plymouth Rock, the Wyandotte, Wyan-dotte, the Rhode Island 'Red and the Orpington are all deservedly popular. Far too many flocks of mixed fowls or mongrels are kept. These are less profitable than the pure bred birds. Eggs uniform in color and size are ft?? Prize-Winning Plymouth Rock Pullet. worth more in the markets than eggs mixed in color and size. The same principle holds true when any considerable con-siderable quantity of market poultry is to be disposed of. Then, too, the farmer with a good flock of pure bred birds can always sell eggs for hatch- " ' ing at a considerable increase over the ordinary market price for table eggs,, and in the fall many of the surplus cockerels can be sold to good advantage advant-age for breeders. |