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Show Baying ttreciling Chickens. New breeds will be purchased by many this fall, and late in the autumn is a good time to buy them. If the. matter is put off until spring the prices will be higher, and the yards will not be so full, so that you cannot have your pick. The first buyers as a rule get the best specimens, speci-mens, for they have a piok from large flocks. Cockerels for crossing are cheap. In buying, however, one shoul1 not go in for the new breeds, but stick to the old reliable kinds. Many of the widely advertised new breeds are only novelties, and they last generally for only a season or two. An old breed is a guarantee that it possesses many good qualities. If pure breeds are not used it is better to use a cross than to let them breed : promiscuously pro-miscuously without regard to system. Annie C. Webster in American Cultivator. |