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Title: Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Saunders, Simon M
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York, O. Judd
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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would advise toadopt Spanish, as they are everlasting layers, but* non-sitters. THE GAME FOWL. Among the Greeks and Romans, the pugnacious pro-pensities and indomitable courage of animals, whetherquadrupeds or birds, never failed to attract attention.The Romans, indeed, Avhose passion for the combats of theamphitheatre was notorious, collected not only the ferocioustenants of the Libyan desert for the gratification of theirblood-thirsty disposition, but bred up dogs for the arena,and even sent authorized officers into Britain for the pur-pose of securing those terrible mastiffs for which the islandwas so celebrated, and it cannot be supposed that thecombativeness of the game-cock would be overlooked.Cock-fighting was as much in vogue in Greece and Italy inancient days, as it was during the last century in GreatBritain and is at present in India, China, Malacca, and theadjacent islands of Sumatra and Java, etc. The Greeksproduced several renowned breeds of game-fowls, and GAME FOWL. 53
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BLACK-BREASTED RED GAME COCK. B4 DOMESTIC POULIT.Y. Media and Persia produced others of first-rate excellence.On Csesars arrival in England he found the fowl domesti-cated ; but these, as well as the hare, were forbidden asfood, as it was not deemed lawful to eat them, and wereonly bred for the sake of fancy and pleasure. But it isprobable we owe the game-fowl to the Romans, for whenBritain was a Roman colony, it is not to be supposed thattha Romans resident on that island would give up thesports to which they were so passionately addicted; andas they sent British fighting-dogs to Rome, so from Romemight they import their fighting-cocks of Greek or Persianlineage. Many of us have a sort of liking for a game-cock,although we may abhor cock-fighting, and hundreds whodread their combats still cling to the breed. There aretwo sets of amateurs: one looks only to beauty of plumage;the other, careless of feather scans closely those pointsthat will tell in a fight. If fowls were not wanted fo

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