The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . bination of quality and quantity of flesh on the best partsof the fowl, and it is just here wherein the Indian is of greatestvalue, for on thigh and breast they possess a wealth of fleshsuch as will rarely be found on the bodies of other breeds. It isnot uncommon to see in the farm yards of the south counties ofEngland a Dorking like crowd of hens presided over by a staunchlooking male of the Indian order. In our own good country,progressive farmers are placing thoroughbreds at the head oftheir
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . bination of quality and quantity of flesh on the best partsof the fowl, and it is just here wherein the Indian is of greatestvalue, for on thigh and breast they possess a wealth of fleshsuch as will rarely be found on the bodies of other breeds. It isnot uncommon to see in the farm yards of the south counties ofEngland a Dorking like crowd of hens presided over by a staunchlooking male of the Indian order. In our own good country,progressive farmers are placing thoroughbreds at the head oftheir flocks that scratch up and down their dung heaps, and nota few will make their choice of males from fanciers of the heavy-typed Indian. We cannot offer better types of the exhibition Indian Gameof America or England than our sketches of Mr. Sharps fourfirst premium winners at New York in 1894. Each bird stand-ing, after the award went up, at the head of a very strong class. The old cock shows a breast and thigh grandly developed;his head is fine, his neck, limbs and tail are so perfectly set on. INDIANS. 77 and all is carried so proudly on a strong pair of feet and shanks. Both hen and pullet show fine forms, the hen especiallybroad and plump, and the pullet grand of shoulder and are such birds as ane seldom meets for real quality of type,and for feather each wore a complete dress of richly coloreddouble laced feathers. The cockerel was one of those smart finished looking fellows,which always attract both fancier and judge. He was also asgamey a bird as I ever saw, giving us no little trouble to sketch,as the moment our hand would enter the cage he would attackwith both beak and claw, and strike to kill. It was this thatled us to illustrate him in such a gamey temper. It is only just to add here that it was through the untiringefforts and expenditure of many thousand dollars on the part ofC. A, Sharp & Co., of New York, that the American fancierswere brought to see t
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