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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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ggs, are precocious as chickens, very hardy, bear confine-ment well, are fair table birds when young, can be kept onall fairly dry soils, and are non-sitters. In selecting birdsattention should be paid to size, to erectness of carriage;and any white on the face, which ought to be red, should beavoided, as this indicates a cross with the black Spanish. ASEELS. These are Indian game cocks, used in that country forfighting purposes. They are good in flesh, but very poorlayers, and so savage that they are not to be recommended,and, therefore, we need not say more respecting them. Bantams. The number of varieties of Bantams is very great, andshows every sign of increasing, for experiments are constantlybeing made in order to obtain miniature specimens of the largerbreeds. As a rule they are simply small specimens, thoughin some cases some differences can be discerned. We onlygive illustrations of two varieties, the white and the Japanese,as all Bantams are purely fancy fowls, being popular
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Brahmas, 83 chiefly because of their beauty, and that they can be kept inplaces where large fowls cannot, as well as from the factthat they make capital pets. In the Game section thereare all the varieties known in large game, and in the othersection we find Blacks (like Black Hamburghs), Whites,Gold and Silver Sebrights (or laced), Japanese, Cuckoos,Pekins, &c., but as they have no commercial value we neednot do more than mention their names. Brahmas. One of the most prominent of the breeds of poultry is theBrahma, and from an exhibitors, or fanciers point of view,perhaps the most valuable. Two hundred dollars has beenoccasionally paid for a first-class bird, and eggs from suchare almost literally worth their weight in gold; but, of course,there are plenty of good ones to be had at reasonable prices.It is undoubtedly a manufactured breed, and for some yearsthere was a great controversy as to its origin. At the firstit was not very attractive in appearance ; but this was in timere

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