The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-02
POULTRY.
TAree Breeds that are Popular With the
South.

Three Breeds that are Popular With the
South.
Aside from the old plantation game
that has always been and probably
always will be popular in the Soutn'
there are three other breeds that are
now showing the public favor. First
we would name the
BROWN LEGHoRN
This breed is the leader, we DelleVe'
The Ieghorn is exceedingly popular'
and Justly so, because it is a highly
profitable fowl. We do not say that
il ia the most popular with the fanclers,
the breeders of pure breed poultry
amply for exhibition and pleasure, but
popular with the people who make
money out of their eggs. Tennessee
feeds the Southeast On eggs. We are
q position to know, and have det1nlt
information as to the great quantities
Of eggs shipped South and Southeast
from oil over the State Of Tennessee.
The quantity would astonish the unln-
formed. There is Atlanta, Augusta,
Savannah, Charleston, Pensacola, Jack
sonvIlle, Mobile, Montgomery, New
Orleans, Richmond and Washington.
Yes, Washington buys East Tennessee
eggs by the Car loads. So you see a
good lay or is needed to fill the bill. he
leghorn is a good layer, and hence the
great popularity of the leghorn.
Then there is another good laying
breed. a breed of hens that lay Splen-
didly in the winter time. We refer
70 the
BLACK LANGSHAN.
This popular variety has taken a
great hold with the people. The lang
shan hen is a good winter la! Ell, and no
mistake ABOUT it.
There Isl greatmany different stories
told about the origin of the black lang
shan, but the general testimony ls to
the effect that it is a Chinese fowl.
That II came originally from the noun
famous region of China, and that 1t Is
held In very high esteem by the
Chinese. Some people claim that Uhty
regard 1t as a sacred bird over there,
and il took no small amount OF scnem-
ing and smuggling to get he first specl-
mems from their native heath. But +
late years the Chinese have taken q
business view of the matter and find a
demas d for them, they bring them to
the coast villages where the ships cast
anchor, to sell them to the foreigners.
But 1t don't matter when or how the
first langshaus came to America. They
are noble fowls and quite a valuable
addition [ % our poultry yards. They
are large black fowls, and the hens lay
brown shelled eggs. The cocks are
fierce and active and exceedingly spry,
considering their great SIZE.
The third favOrIte In the Southland
ia the celebrated American breed,
THE PLYMOUTH ROCKS,
The outcome of the American fanciers
skill, and patient breeding. This is the
great table chicken, and a good one it
L. Everybody comedies the Plymouth
Rock to be a good chicken to eat The
hens are also very fair layers, sitters
and mothers, but they are slow to ST
In the early spring time. Last spring
cut of some thirty or forty Plymouth
Rock hens we never had more than
three or four to go to setting by the
arst of June.
The Plymouth Rock hen lays a dark
cream colored egg, of good size and
favor, and she will lay a heap of them
On the stretch getting broody, if she
h fed well, and the eggs gathered
daily.
The Plymouth Rock is of a favorite
color the world over. The English
housewives, it is said, were partial to
the Cuckoo" or spotted and barred
fowls. We all know what great favor
ties the old American Dominiques used
TO be with the old folks. Kill any of
EN- but the dominecker; 1 want to
keep her" So has spoken many a good
old dame of the past.
The original dominique has given
way to the Plymouth Rock of to day,
but its color considerably improved
Upon, is still popular.-H q. Geer, in
Tennessee Farmer.
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