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Show Unyliig IJret'ding 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 pick from large flocks. Cockerels for crossing are cheap. In buying, however, one should 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 uot used it is better to use a cross than to let tbem breed promiscuously pro-miscuously without regard to system. Annie C. Webster in American Cultivator. |