The dark varieties also have dark colored
logs which are not the fashion in Boston
market which demands without any sen
sible reason, yellow legs.
The plymouth rock breed probably com
bines as many desirable points as any
other breed we have for general usefulness.
It matures early, the eggs hatch well in
incubators, and chicks come early to
market as broilers and roasters, the pullets
also lay when little older than the leghorns,
and for roasters and sizable full grown
bird they are excellent, they also have the
fashionable yellow legs, 't hey are docile
and easily fenced without being disposed to
laziness like the asiatics.
The asiatic birds, which include the light
and dark b a’ma-, the cochins, iangshans
and other similar breeds are less desirable
for practicable purposes than the above
named bree.is. They make the heavy
roasters and are good winter layers, anti
are easily restained by fencing but they are
slow in coining to maturity: their eggs and
n't hatch so surely in the incubator, and
they are apt to he lazy and die of apoplexy
when over fed.
The light brahma is perhaps the best
as it is certainly the widest known of
these breeds and has many admirers; but
where simple profit is the object in breed
ing we believe it must yield to the other
breeds we have mentioned. —Mass. Plough
an.
Amnsljig Incident.
