The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . gs are they so much esteemed, but this is enoughto those who have seen them and the eggs they so generouslysupply. Blue Andalusians and Anconas. In the same class with Leghorns, Minorcas and Spanish be-long Blue Andalusians and Anconas. The Andalusian derivesits name from Andalusia, a province in the southern part ofSpain. It is a graceful bird, somewhat on the Leghorn orderof build but is larger than a Leghorn, though smaller than theMinorca. Its color of head points is the same as that of the
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . gs are they so much esteemed, but this is enoughto those who have seen them and the eggs they so generouslysupply. Blue Andalusians and Anconas. In the same class with Leghorns, Minorcas and Spanish be-long Blue Andalusians and Anconas. The Andalusian derivesits name from Andalusia, a province in the southern part ofSpain. It is a graceful bird, somewhat on the Leghorn orderof build but is larger than a Leghorn, though smaller than theMinorca. Its color of head points is the same as that of theMinorca but its plumage is a slaty blue and bluish black through-out, with shanks of the same shade. Except the Minorcas andSpanish, it is the only IMediterranean breed supplied with aweight clause in the Standard. Anconas are required to have the same shape as Leghornsand are about the same size, as a rule, as that breed thoughoccasionally larger ones are found. Its plumage should be agreenish black with each feather tipped with white, the effectbeing one of even mottling all over the THE DORKING FOWL One of the Oldest of the Present Races of Domestic Fowlsand Prized by the English for Its Remark-able Table Qualities. It is not the history which the Dorkiugs possess that to-daymakes them of value to American and English fanciers. Yetit will be interesting to know in what estimation they were heldby old writers. Mr. Harrison Weir, England, said: Take our old Englishfarm fowl the Romans brought into England nearly 2,000 yearsago; judging from the bones found, they are the same kind ofbirds today as then. For centuries and centuries they have beenmost carefully selected, and bred to a type. Take drawings asfar back as you can get them, and there stands the king offowls, bright, strong, full of life and grace, fearless and bold—as he stands today—a bird of birds, a fowl without a peer. Lookaround at all the new mongrels that people call advance andsee if there is on
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