Puget Sound Weekly Argus

Eggs The Whole Year.—Get a breed of poultry that are non-setters. For my part, I like the white-crested black Polands the best. They do not fly over a fence that is three feet high. I have had them over four years, and I do not remember that one was ever inside my barn. Five or six years ago I had Leghorns and Hamburgs, and they would sneak in my barn every day, scratch around the hay, and make nests in the straw. But this is not the case with my white crested black Polish. They are always contented with their nests. I have no trouble to hunt eggs in the grass and in the barn, like some of my neighbors must if they do not want to lose half their eggs. I always get my chicks hatched in March and April. Then they will commence to lay in August and September, and they keep on laying all winter. This year I did raise ninety Polish chicks, and lost only four, and those by accident. I have found out that I can get my Polands to weigh as follows when I raise them early: Cocks, five and a half pounds, and the hens four and a half pounds. They are of a very tame disposition. I have some that will come and eat out of my hand. They are a delicately flavored table fowl. In the year 1877 my flock of twenty-five hens did lay 4,575 eggs, or 183 eggs per hen. I am a young farmer who believes in pure-bred poultry.—D. N. Kern in "Cincinnati Times."