The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-04-29
Iure'Ered Langshans as LAYERS


uaii'ieS IN which all who have raised
.nem claim they excel allother breeds
put one of their greatest points OF
oAceiience is their great production
"nile my purpose in this article Is To
'ah attention more forcibly to the
great egg-laying qualities of the pure.
pred Langshan, wet I cannot refrain
from mentioning some of their other
good points also.
All VINO have seen the Langsban.
either on the free range of a farm
III the 1ancier's yard, or in the show
ioon1' nave been compelled to admire
us beauty Only to those who have
never seen this bred is it necessary
70 say anything Of the beauty of the
plrds. But to those l would say that
there Is no more handsome a bird
raised to-day. For those who admire
a colored bird, the Blacks, with their
rlch, glossy, greenish-black sheen
snstenlng with every changing light
Or, those who prefer a white fowl,
the whites, as pure and pearly white
as any fowl bred to-day-and either
the Blacks or Whites with the char
acteristic "Lordly Langshan" carriage
the males, proud, erect and stately,
masterful in appearance, the females,
large in body, yet in no sense clumsy,
graceful, alert, active, bright-eyed
birds, the minutest detail of bearing
such as to attract the eye-these, to-
gether with their rich bright red
combs, wattles and ear lobes and dark
(almost black), intelligent eyes,
make the Langshan as breed pre-
eminent always as bird of beauty.
But, fortunately, it is not beauty
alone in which the Langshan excels.
AS table fowl, they are all that the
most exacting could DESIRE Large
bodies. clean white skin and the meat
line grained, tender and juicy, with
flavor uneXcelled. l do not believe
there is a breed in existence to-day |
that produces as fine favored or as |
desirable meat as the Langshan.
Yet, with all it's good points as al
ready mentioned, there is still an
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OF anything else. That is in the all
important item of egg production.
Taken month in and month out, the
year around, the Langshan hen will
Guido all in number of eggs laid.
The hens stand confinement we'll and,
with proper care in small yard, will
steadily shell out the eggs, but, if
allowed free range, they will forage
as readily and as far as the smaller
breeds. They do not have any great
to get excessively fat on
heavy feeding, but rather seem to
put all the extra feed into eggs.
When they cannot increase the num-
Der of eggs they proceed to increase
the size. 1t seems that some of the
hens wish the Almighty would permit
them to lay more than one egg day,
for have, from small pen of fowls,
gotten double egg almost every day
for a week, or a longer time some
tines
And again, very profitable fea-
lure in the laying qualities of the -.
ID Ill0 Ncly ouOlI LlLu0 III /.
which they begin laying again after ..
having been broken from broody
;pell or after having been allowed to
lit and hatch brood of chicks. If
lot allowed to sit the hens will in !,
learly every case begin laying again
within a week, and, most frequently,
n three or four days from the time
hey are taken off the nest. If al
owed to sit and raise the chicks, Il
hey will very often begin laying il
gain before the chicks are near n
Jeaned and will continue to lay u
very day and mother the chicks also. II
have had hens that have been sitting n
Or over six weeks continuously Chat n
), l have let a hen hatch one sitting u
{ eggs, have taken the chicks from n
er hatch a second brood, have then OF
lken the chicks from her AGAIN. W
nd had the hen laying again on the OF
,urteenth day from the time last pl
hicks were taken from her. I be- OF
eve that any pure-bred Langshan III
en- will begin laying in two weeks re
less after Matching a brood Of IN
hicks If the chicks are taken from a
Or and frequently in very little over al
lis time, if allowed to mother the ST
ticks. ia
OF course, there are some strains al
Langshans that have been selected co
r their great egg-laying traits that pc
III produce more eggs in year than DO
hers; but l think that all that has nj
ZEN written above applies equally as
all pure-bred strains of Langshans. TN
Y experience has been only with te'
a RIacks. but I am told by reliable an