Show I here is what II 11 sumner perkins tells in the rural now new yorker about leg horns the moro more acquaintance I 1 have with the leghorn themore the more I 1 am inclined to tc believe that she is the fowl for business for practical work upon the farm parties in offering ott ering objections to this breed lay by far too much stress upon the fact that as a 6 table bird the leghorn is not in it reasoning in a similar way it might be laid eaid that the jersey cow is of no value since she is worth little or nothing Z for beef yet of course no sen sensible silAo person will speak thus of the jersey as for the work for which she is intended she is without a I 1 rival likewise the leghorn has been bred for a specific purpose viz the production of eggs and it i is s fail to judge the owl fowl f only from this basis babis let those that think so BO much of substance in a fowl just estimate what a i very small proportion of the profit on a hen comes from the sale of the carcass A couple of dozen eggs will usually represent the entire value of an old hen in market and the leghorn may be counted upon to produce at least four dozen more eggs per year than the so called market breeds so obviously this question of market poultry value is unduly weighed lf if the leghorn is utilized asi asa fertilizer only at the close of her usefulness still the breed bre edvill will come out ahead farmers must have the best laying fowl all else is entirely of a secondary nature |