The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-05-03
BROWN LEGHORN.

we would name the
BROWN LEGHORN.
This breed is the leader, we believe.
The Leghorn is exceedingly popular,
and justly so, because it is a highly
profitable fowl. We do not say that
it is the most popular with the fanciers,
the breeders Of pure bred poultry
simply for exhibition and pleasure, but
popular with the people who make
money out of their eggs. Tennessee
feeds the Southeast on eggs. We are
in position to know, and have def
mite information as to the great guam
titles of eggs shipped South and South
east from all over the State of Tennes-
see. The quantity would astonish the
uniformed. There is Atlanta, Au-
gusta, Savannah, Charleston, Pensa-
cola, Jacksonville, Mobile, Mont
gomery, New Orleans, Richmond and
Washington. Yes, Washington buys
East Tennessee eggs by the car loads.
So you see good layer is needed to
fill the bill. The Leghorn is a good
layer, and hence the great popularity
Of the Leghorn.
Then there is another good laying
breed, breed of hens that lay splen-
didly in the winter time. We refer to
the
BLACK LANGsHAN.
This popular variety has taken a
great hold with the people. The Lang
shan hen is good winter layer, and
no mistake about it.
There is great many different sto-
ries told about the origin of the Black
Langshan, but the general testimony
is to the effect that it is a Chinese
fowl. That it came originally from
the mountainous region of China, and
that it is held in very high esteem by
the Chinese. Some people claim that
they regard it sacred bird over there,
and it took no small amount of schem-
ing and smuggling to get the first speci-
mems from their native heath. But of
late years the Chinese have taken a
business view Of the matter and find
a demand for them, they bring them
to the coast villages where the ships
cast anchor, to sell them to the for
eigners.
But it don't matter when or how
the first Langshans came to America.
They are large black fowls, and the
hens lay brown shelled eggs. The
cocks are fierce and active and exceed
ingly spry, considering their great
size.
The third favorite in the Southland
is 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 is. 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 set in the early spring time.
Last spring out of some thirty or forty
Plymouth Rock hens we never had
more than three or four to 60 to setting
by the first of June.
The Plymouth Rock hen lays a
dark cream colored egg, ofgood size and
flavor, and she will lay a heap of them
on the stretch before getting broody, if
she is fed well, and the eggs gathered
daily.
The Plymouth Rock is of faSorite
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 'em but the Dominecker d; l 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.