Identifier: leghornsbrownwhi00reli_0 (find matches)
Title: The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Leghorn chicken
Publisher: Quincy, IL : Reliable poultry journal Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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placed in a large box in a sunny spot in their house. and in using this they keep themselves free from lice. Weare never troubled with lice (mites) in our poultry bouses,as they are kept clean and well ventilated. A strong argument in favor of artificial incubation andbrooding is that with ordinary care the chicks will be freefrom lice. You have now hatched and raised your chicks and thepullets are laying. If you are careful and methodical inyour business you can soon build up a good trade in fancytable eggs, guaranteeing each one to be new-laid. If you have a good strain of fowls and are successful intbeir selection and breeding you may now begin in a smallway at first to advertise stock and hatching eggs for sale.Ask a fair price for your goods and then always give goodvalue for money sent you. It may be discouraging for a while, as people are loth tosend money to an unknown breeder, but persevere and youwill become known and sales will increase if you deal fairly. H. J. BLANCHARD.
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First Prize Winning Single Comb White Leghorns at New York; Bred and Owned by D- W. Young. LEGHORNS—WHITE AND BUEE. Type Makes the Breed, Size Adds to the Value—Standard Requirements Treated In a Masterly Manner Sug-gest Occasion for Deep Jhought—Looking to Nature tor Instruction In Breeding Buffs—Too MuchImportance Attached to Undercolor—Wild Birds as Subjects for Comparison. By Ezra Cornell. IT WOULD seem an easy matter to tell others how tobreed exhibition White Leghorns, but I find it other-wise. The whole story seems to be told when you havesaid, Mate your best exhibition males with your bestexhibition females. Theoretically, that is all there is of it,and would probably leave nothing more to say if our bestexhibition birds were perfect and had been bred from perfectspecimens. But where the rub comes, is that our birds arenever either perfect or alike—every bird has its faults. Theymay be slight, but still they exist. It is these faults, per-haps, added to those of th

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