Show poultry A writer in the bat the following sensible idea we are constantly asked the question which the best breed ol 01 fowls the question has two side to it and can only be answered by giving the merits of each then one must ask the question which fill onal wants the most light brahman will a a rule lay eggs in one year and batch and rear brood of chickens they will lay JOO of that number between the ast 1st december and abo let of june a time in the year when they brin the largest price their eggs weigh from five to eight ounces per dozen more than ordinary country collected or white egg their chicken become broiler at eight week old make the greatest number of pounds of poultry for food consumed at eight and nine months of age it the breeder be compelled to carry a twelvemonth they gain continually enough to pay for feeding until thirteen month sold and are tender enough to roast up to the june following the batching of the same ibus making the most profitable fowl to winter for spring poultry alist of excellencies no other breed can boast of its most unprofitable and unsuitable time to be killed ie at the age between twelve weeks and eight stocks sixty days quicker then Brah but willei layers of eggs are not equal to them but in summer time they lay a greater number and in the car lay probably eggs As broilers it will take twelve to fifteen weeks to mature them large enough to be desirable but such are pre to the brahma and as they become sixty day quicker on sees where abo breeding of them with abo light brahma jaako both bipeds of more value to the than either bred by him alone for the one more particularly tends to fill the winter demand and the other the early fall demand for poultry and eggs both are beautiful breeds and cater for both the biste tiste and pockets atif their owner the remarks are true when the plymouth bocks are bred to their legitimate size and when forced up to their greatest weicht it ia seen they mature later and half their value ia destroyed at the meeting at portland had tho bleeders breeders bre eders allowed the committee to control alie revision of the ply mouth rock standard at that time it would have been belter for the bread tarco quarterma of those who then voted to retain the old weights ts today to day deprecate their curso eight and a half pounds for cocks six pounds for pullets and seven and a naif pounds for hens would or does produce hens of the most practical they are seldom if ever broken down they never havo loach or ill shaped backs have fuller sounder breasts and are birds that lay a larger number of eggs and are better color ani the thing should be brought about now the standard corrected and the bread be pt upon a permanent haas then the breed will be better appreciated if makers of standards would strive to make laws that would make each breed the best breed practically in the end the breed n be better for it |