Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-10-28
Agricultural.
The Poultry TO Keen.

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breeds of poultry are the best 2" and it
a pretty difficult question to answer; fl
there are so many different conditions i
which the fowls are to be kept and S
many different breeds of poultry, that a
most each individual poultry keeper wi
have requirements different from other:
and in answering the question We ca
- therefere speak in general terms only.
There are two chief classes of poultr
keepers, namely, those who, on consider
able areas Of land, have but large hocks
and those who have but limited space, ant
generally keep their poultry in coOfne
ment. GEE.
The requirement of these two classes
are of course, in a measure, different.
- '@Again, some large poultry keepers raise
,lbut few. chickens, and depend on eggs for
profit and others raise every chicken pos.
;, essible, looking to these for remuneration,
while the village poultry keeper is gencr-
ally anxious to- get eggs and chickens, and
a. all he can of both:
Each breed ofpoultry has marked traits
or characteristics, aud these are so well
known and understood that it is an easy
matter to rccomemend special breed to
: meet the wants of each individual.
The large breeds known as "Asaiatic,"
ID which are included the different go
chins, @''Shangbues," "Brahmas," etc.,
"sare hot generally distinguished as great
.srlayers, and from their strong setting pro-
a. cHvites are most valuable as breeders of
chickens.
, The Cochins are generally slow in ma
turing, and unless crossed with the COM
mon fowl.are not very valuable to the
economical poultry breeder.
80 The Brahma is valuable and favorte
breed, but tits not SO profitable when
thoroughbred as it is when crossed that
is, when the raising of chickens is an OBJ
ject in view. We have had considerable
experience with all the large breeds of
poultry, and we have invariably found the
half breeds the most profitable The chicks
of the thoroughbreds do not mature so
rapidly, and they are, from their naked.
ness Of feathers at the most critical period
of their lives, more subject to disease
than the half breeds
The latter feather out much earlier than
tho others, aud this is largely in their ia
vor IN this climate of sudden and great
:, changes Of temperature. To the poultry
breeder, than, who wishes quick growing
and early maturing chickens, who cares
moro for two pounds in "Fourth of Ju.
.ly br0iLer" than five pounds in Septem.
Der, cross between one Of the varieties
OF the Brahma and the common fowl is
most desirable. A very popular and pro-
ftable cross has been found between the
Brahma and Leghorn, the offspring ma.
turing quickly and the pullets being ear
ly and good layers To the large poultry
keeper, who wishes eggs more than chick.
ems, of the non-incubating breeds, or their
grades, are most valuable. Crosses of
Leghorns, Spanish or Polish, with the
common fowl, we have found to be, on the
whole about as profitable, or rather, as
good layers as the thoroughbreds, and
they stand our rough climate much better
vi course, insthc foregoing, we have
not Intended to include the breeders Of
fancy fowls, to be sold at fancy prices"
but we intended to treat simply Of ordi.
nary poultry keepers,
10 the villager who wishes early chick.
ems and carly eggs, the Dark Brahma is, :
perhaps. the best, either full bred or
grade, and if he is,not particular as to
tho purity of the blood, but wishes the
greatest pecunlary returns, a cross be. n
tween Brown Leghorns and White Bra +
mas or White l.cghorns and Dark Brah.
mas, will pay him better than any other q
stock, The half breed feathers and ma. =
lures earlier, begins to lay younger, and h
lays more eggs than the full blood Brah. :,
mas IS larger, more quiet and domestic =
than the full blood Leghorn, and makes i
good setter and mother, which the Lee. ;,
horn rarely becomes. Miss. Plaunhmnu