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Title: The Farm-poultry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Poultry Northeastern States Periodicals Poultry Industry Northeastern States Periodicals
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : I.S. Johnson and Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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gs nearly black; most of thewinners shown by the Rev. 1!. T. Thornton,and Mr. R. Little, during that period, have food consumers, quite moderate in pioportionto their egg production; being a non-sittingbreed, all their combined qualities make themthe model fowl for contiued city quarters.(Should consider a six foot fence inadequatefor their safe confinement). In confined quarters that are kept in goodcomlitiou they will lay well and prosper.When the best of attention is given themwhen kept under these conditions, they areof, if notthe most, profitable family fowl.Their color is not injured as easily as manyothers; neither the atmospheric conditionsnor the lapse of time works equal havoc withtheir appearance, as with others of colorsmore easily soiled or injured by the sun.Their color holds well from molt to molt. InEngland, as a general purpose utility fowlihey rank far above the Minorca, and thosewho keep them, with us, value them veryhighly. When kept in large grass runs, or allowed
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BLUE ANDALUSIANS. The Two Females, Minorca Type by Ludlow. Male, the Preferred English Type. The Pair, Spanish Type as Preferred With Us. not be overlooked in reference to these darksickled tails. Remembering that we wantour hens with clear blue tails, we should, ifthe black sickled male birds are allowed tocarry the day, have, I am afraid, great diffi-culty in getting our pullets of the right colorunless we descend to running different breed-ing pens for producing cockerels and pullets.I have not had any experience in breedingSilver Penciled Hamburgs, but 1 am told thatit is the fact of the male bird having a darksickle, and the female a light tail, that main-tains the necessity of breeding such fromdifferent pens; and all who have looked intoit are of unanimous opinion that such dualbreeding is the cause of the total neglectwhich that variety is experiencing. What-ever, therefore, we must put up with, let usnot push the Andalusian to that fearfulextreme. If it is necessary to give u

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