Show BROWN LEGHORNS lESHO FiNS elitier na as toli told by a in tito the ranc fanciers lers boni lly without disparaging any other breed too much can barn ze la l a enid sti ia in fit favor of the lie practical cal mariton of tile aronn leg horns which show lip on the credit sido side of the poultry accounts in a manner and with a persistency which enable us to figure with almost mathematical nicety nicely the probable results s of proper cars care and keeping when this brood is chosen as tho the foundation of poultry speculation in fact the breeding brooding of brown leg leghorns h horns can scarcely bo be considered speculative when well defined lines aud and established methods are pursued in their management antl and keeping their proficiency and precocity combined with extraordinary vior vigor render them no inferior antagonists in the contest for honors in the tha financial arena of poultry culture their ancient lineage has haa starn stamped ped an indelible impress on their constitution that rough usage and promiscuous interbreeding inter breeding see been powerless to wholly efface long con tinned judicious selection under tinder favors i ble climatic conditions has made them a fixed breed with such tenacious innate qualities as no mushroom breed ever presents and they come nearer to being a species than any other of our domestic varieties of the gallina Ra even the characteristic markings of the newly hatched chick of this breed indicate an inherited vitality and stamina due to long continued influences from the moment it breaks its shell the brown leghorn chick will trill attract attention by its manifest ability and in hi BROIN bbown 21 COCK A AND ND IMN HEX to cope with its environment and give full returns for I 1 its ta development into broiler egg producer or breeder it if they aro are small email their predominant activity full compensates a lack of bulk in their ability to obtain more than an equivalent of natures bounty in foraging ng when given their liberty and even in close confinement they withstand an amount of abuse truly surprising as practical illustrations which have come under my observation demonstrate in deatore meat or eggs 9 s this breed will produce as much for food consumed as any breed and contrary to popular opinion under adverse ad verso conditions intelli intelligence enco in poultry though seemingly 0 little noticed by writers on poultry subjects is to mo a prominent thought in estimating the value of any breed of fowls and that tile the drown brown le leghorn possesses a high degree of intelligence t estimated by the true poultry standard is certain and to me this is act 10 0 least part of tho the practical me anent H I 1 of this thisba reed breed t |