Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1912 — Good Poultry. [ARTICLE]

Good Poultry.

A young chicken is known by an abundance of pinfeathers, soft smooth skin on legs below the- first joint and a soft cartilage at the point of the breast-bone. The feet of old fowls are hard and covered with dry coarse scales, and the cartilage at the end of the breast-bone has become ossified. Good fowls should be plump, and the cartilage at the end of the breast-bone should be soft and pliable. Turkeys should have smooth, dark legs and the jcartilage at the breastbone should be Soft. Cock turkeys are usually better than the ben turkeys. Good £eese abound in pinfeathers and should, be plump, with soft feet and pliable bills.—Delineator.