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Title: Profitable poultry keeping
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Beale, Stephen Weld, Mason Cogswell, 1829-1887
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : Routledge
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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wever,advise purchasers to take birds simply because they have wonin the show pen, but get them from some place where Houdanshave been kept for years, and bred chieflyfor economic qualities.They are then most valuable, and as Mr. Tegetmeier says,they may certainly be regarded as the Dorkings of France,Large, heavy, short-legged, five-toed fowls, with smalllight bone, a remarkable absence of ofial, and with irregularlyspeckled or mottled plumage, they strongly recall to mindthe old-fashioned coloured Dorking, as it existed beforeany attention had been directed to uniformity of featheringby the poultry shows. Their merits as table fowl are ofthe highest excellence. No pure bred chickens mature withgreater, or perhaps with as great, a degree of rapidity; theyfeather early, are extremely hardy, and consequently easilyreared. The old birds are robust, and the eggs which arenumerous, are remarkable as being almost invariably fertile.*Of all the French breeds La Fleche stands at the head for
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