Show MARKET AND EGGS Suggestions As to tho licit nod of onU For ITnlH The lost breed cl fowls to rear for the market or as egg producers depends upon locality for ivlillo In some pinceR one Variety is I deemed the best In others it would prove tho reverse For a market mar-ket foiU the Drahtnas and Cochins will under almost nil circnmstancc prove the mot desirable they being less liable I lia-ble to tHflcifco feathering up quickly and can be bred to weigh at from 4 tll 6 mouths of age eight to ten pounds Another good llahlo owl is tho Darling rock eroded with file Brahma hen The flesh of this iross is meet and nu tritions full acquires at early ago the plumpness of tho Dorking at maturity There tire other broods however which are Bald to bo desirable to roar for the table Many claim that Out French breeds of fowls tire of this number but I this wo very much doubt as their flesh lacks the buttery golden color Unit attracts at-tracts tho eye of tho epicure They may prove vilniblo as egg producers but they lack many good qualities us a table ta-ble bird Dorkings are undoubtedly at tho bead of lie list us table binli but of late years havo become so subject lo disease that wo question tho feasibility of rearing them profitably for market in our changeable northern climate As egg producers the Hambnrgi urn claimed to tind at tho bead of the list I This claim wo are prepared to dispute for as inter layers wo find that the Brahma Cochin Leghorn Poland and Ifoudan Etaud relativel in the ositio a I wu Is uv hero nauiciL That tho Hamburg good egg prodncciswo admit but tbat they nro any better than a number cf lions iting fowls EO called wo deny Tho richness and meatiness of their eggs are not to bo compared with those of the Poland Leghorn Houdau or Brahma and their eggs lack the size of thobo named All things considired wo havo no hesitancy in saying that for eggs wo Klionld name the Iolands for tho table Dorkings Add for early mar kotablo thickens lirahmna and Cochins A corrospomlcnt of Mooroa Ilural New Yorker who has had considerable experience in rearing fowls for profit says The farmers breed is I the breed For profit It consists of Brahma hens nod colored DorLing oncks tho chicks from which tire hardy easily reared 1 grow fast and in four mouths without extra feed ttilldrcos four to five pounds each of fine grained well formed plump > breasted well colored flesh fit for tho table of any nmatour or epicure told always commanding a good Price in market Thc bens from this cross are even better and more continuous layers than cither Ports BrAhma or the forking but if wanted to breed again the farnur must keip ono coop separata of Brab assay a cock and two bens and so also of the Dorkiugs and thus yearly with the cro of purebred birds racks of the Dorkings and hens of the Irabmas keep nu the farmers 1 > rood for profit II |