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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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lenty of room most of the varietiesof Hamburghs are hardy, easy to rear, and, as they are non-sitters, make most useful fowls, where the size of egg laid isof less importance than the number. As already stated, the blacks are the best for commercialpurposes, and the silver spangles come next in point of sizeand hardiness. In selecting such birds for stock purposes,mere show qualities, such as fineness of ear lobe and comb,should be ignored, and size of body, good shape and livelinessof carriage be looked for principally. The larger the fowl thelarger the Qgg, as a rule, and by selection both can verymaterially be increased. .There are other varieties besidesthose named, such as red caps, creels and pheasants, whichlaj^ good sized eggs, and can be recommended equally withthe blacks as useful fowls. Langshans. About the origin of this breed of fowls considerable con-tention has taken place; but we have no desire to enter hereinto the controversy at all. It has only been a very few years
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La7tgshans. 107 in America, being first introduced from China tliroiigliEngland and vaunted by its sponsors as an entirely newbreed; but, as it bears some resemblance to Black Cochins asthey were at first, it is thought by many that the two breedsare very nearly allied. There can be no question but thatthey are vastly different now, resembling each other only incolour; for, whilst the Langshan is a splendid layer and acapital table bird, not too determined a sitter, and a mostvaluable fowl for general purposes, the other is just theopposite of all these. The Cochin is handsomer in appearance,but that is all. We are disposed to think the truth of thewhole matter is, that the Langshan of the present day andthe Black Cochin of thirty years ago, are, if not exactly thesame, very nearly so, but that the latter has been spoiled bythe breeding for fancy points alone. The Langshan is a large bird, standing upon somewhatlong legs, which are only very slightly feathered. It has asingle upright

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