PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND BROWN LEGHORNS

In company with a great many .ot&|8 people who have given the different teeesw a fair trial, we have, says "A Farmer , * Daughter, come to the conclusion tsiai the Plymouth Bocks and the Browa Beg l horns are the beet fowls in fchejsrorio. Neither excels in every particular, bat; the two kinds complement each other. «ue as we raise chickens only for home* ties, we do not care to keep the breeds separa|%i3 both, are put together }n the saoie'yifs* The Brown Leghorns are almost sitters, and have been called eVefHIaM layers, while the Plymouth Rockß&W#£W brooders, excellent mothers, andwieoyoa get into a good strain* the young ire tfWJ healthy, j?row rapidly, and are Wftttfjot the table within two months. afjNttW*f? are hatched. The Leghorns prooSia a great many more eggs In wtato»r£*»» in the spring the Piyinoiiths IW?. 1 fair race with them until the WM ing fever sets in, when • everything else is forgotten. Then, comes muff most troubleeome time, for probably niX* a- dozen hens set their hearts on the same nest, and they ere all so much alike taas if you set one you can't tell by nextdaf which one that was. Aβ mothers, tee conduct of the ia irreproacej able, if we except the amiable weaknewM being somewhat covetous. When esveral hens are put out with youngc chickens, $6 strongest will take the whether she can «over them' alt drnos. Each hen wants every little one she sees; I have known thsm even to adopt lifcttt strays several days older than their owp* From the first, the Httle LeghoriJS"ftW much more active .than the.. PiymoatM: Put both kinds into a banket, &nd J®! slender little brown heads are the , flnp peep out, and-before you know it .mft' have found the way out and are.raE|i%S over the floor hunting fsr sometttiagp eat.— Country Qtntlemati. '•■■*.;.* Ti , ,.
