American poultry world . ere bred, as werealso horses and cattle, in one indiscriminate hodge ancestors, for a generation following the RevolutionaryWar, would not have known what a poultryman was, nor ahorseman nor a dairyman, as a follower of a distinct calling. Yet we must qualify a little, for there has been some rudi-mentary poultry fancying since time immemorial. A grand-mother or a great-grandmother of ours sometimes had afavorite hen. If it was Old Speck, then from her eggs wereraised a flock of speckled birds, or with some folks there wasa belief that coal-black fowls were b
American poultry world . ere bred, as werealso horses and cattle, in one indiscriminate hodge ancestors, for a generation following the RevolutionaryWar, would not have known what a poultryman was, nor ahorseman nor a dairyman, as a follower of a distinct calling. Yet we must qualify a little, for there has been some rudi-mentary poultry fancying since time immemorial. A grand-mother or a great-grandmother of ours sometimes had afavorite hen. If it was Old Speck, then from her eggs wereraised a flock of speckled birds, or with some folks there wasa belief that coal-black fowls were better than any of my earliest recollections is of a neighbor who wouldkeep none but birds of the purest white and at just about thetime when I began to feed fowls and gather eggs there wasan American missionary in China who, from pure fancy, wasestablishing a strain of light buff fowls, culled from thecommon dunghill birds of China, and the good man littleknew the importance of what he was doing. He fired th«.
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