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Show ADVICE CANT BE FOLLOWED Impossible to Have Egg Layers Alone, Consequently Farmers Must Keep General Purpose Fowl. The advice is given generally to select se-lect an egg breed for egg production, but on the average this advice cannot be followed very well, as the principal egg breeds. Leghorns, Anconas and Minorcas are poor mothers and cam scarcely be kept to advantage unless' incubators and brooders are employed in raising the chickens. Consequently Consequent-ly a majority of farmers and back, yard poultry men are forced to keep a general purpose breed. Of these-the these-the Barred, Plymouth Rock, the Wyandotte, Wyan-dotte, the Rhode Island Red and the-Orpington the-Orpington are all deservedly popular. Far too many flocks of mixed fowls or mdngrels are kept. These are lessi profitable than the pure bred birds., Eggs uniform in color and size are. Prize-Winning Plymouth Rock Pullet., worth more in the markets than egga mixed in color and size. The samai principle holds true when any considerable con-siderable quantity of market poultry! is to.be disposed of. Then, too, thw farmer with a good flock of pure bredj birds can always sell eggs for hatching hatch-ing at a 'considerable increase over thei ordinary market price for table eggs,, and in the fall many of the surplus; cockerels can be sold to good advantage advant-age for breeders. |