Title: Annual catalogue of the Freeport Nurseries and Poultry Yards
Identifier: annualcatalogueo1893free (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Freeport Nurseries and Poultry Yards; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture), Illinois, Catalogs; Poultry industry, Catalogs; Nursery stock, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs
Publisher: Freeport, Ill. : J. W. Miller 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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LIGHT BRAHMAS, A well known poultry breeder in describing this noble bird says, " Any breed that can stand the test of rivalry so long, and still continue to satisfy and please the thousands breeding them, must have qualities of a very high order". The Light Brahma is the largest of all our poultry, and furnish more pounds of eggs and flesh in twelve months, than any other breed. When matured the cock weighs twelve, and the hen ten pounds. They are gently, handsome and practical, and are so quiet and docile, that a fence four feet high will keep them. Our yard of this grand breed is the best in the country, and we defy competition. It is headed by a cockerel scoring 95, and there is not a bird in our pen scoring under 90, while some of the pullets score as high as 95 and 96. Keep the poultry house clean and dry.

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