Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-04
m BREEDS AND CROSSES.
An Acknowledged Authority on Poultry
Eggs and Markets.

nm acknowledged Authority on Poultry,
Eggs and Markets.
In recent address at the Massachu-
sets Plowman's farmers meeting in
Boston Mr.. Samuel Cushman said con-
corning breeds and crosses;
1.-THE best breed is the one whose
product, quantity considered, best suits
your particular market.
THE demand in certain sections for
market poultry having very yellow
skin and legs is a senseless fad, just as
much as breeding for beauty of feather
is fad. People ignorant of what good
poultry is think yellow chicken looks
rich and healthy. The fact is that a
thin, wasted chicken will look like a
healthy one because the color of his
aRin is yellow, while white skinned
bird must be plump and fat, or it will
not pass muster. Unless fat and in good
condition the flesh of the latter shows
through its more tender and transpar-
emit skin and therefore looks blue and
unattractive. Certain breeds that have
tho most juicy, tender aud delicious
flesh of all fowl have white skin and
white or dark legs. In some markets,
Philadelphia and New York, good
chicken, one that is soft, tender, plump
and fat, is all right, regardless of color
of skin or leg. But you must bow to
this fad where it exists in order to sell
your goods unless you have private
trade and are willing to carry on an
educational campaign.
Brown eggs are preferred in Boston
and some other eastern markets, while
white ones bring the best price in New
York city.
There is usually no real difference
in the quality, Thee of game fowls,
which produce few, are considered the
richest and doubtless are. Tho eggs
from Leghorns, Black Spanish, Minor
cas- and Hamburgs-.breeds that are nom
sitters aud most persistent layers-may
toward the latter part Of the season be
less rich and sometimes pale and wa
terry. This is due, however, to the fact
that they have exhausted themselves by
excessive laying or have not had suffi-
ciontly nutritious food or enough of it,
Their early eggs are as rich as any
prOWu eggs. All tnefe is IN IL Is this
the breeds that lay brown eggs are moro
hardy and stocky. They are not SO pro-
life and do not lay enough to exhaust
themselves or when they have INSULT
cient material to produce good egg.
IF your market calls for yellow poul-
try you must not select stock that does
not produce chickens having yellow
skin and legs, The pinfeathers Of the
dark plumaged birds are also objection
able, Some dark breeds, when mated
with white breeds, produce white or
very light chickens. White and buff
fowls are to be preferred. If you are to
raise brown eggs, you must not keep
pure breeds Of the nonsitting varieties.
You may cross them with the breeds
that lay brown eggs and get excellent
stock that produce brown eggs. If you
are TO keep your stock pure, you have
from which to choose White and Buff
Wyandottos and White Plymouth Rocks.
which have no feathers ON their legs,
and Light Brahmas and Buff Coohins,
which do have feathers ON their legs.
They also make most excellent yellow
poultry, If you cross for brown eggs.
mate large White Leghorns or Buff Leg