The Farm-poultry . se reproduced uniformly in type and color,and gave me my first insight into what a breed, to be abreed, should be. i. e., that all should be alike. Visitorswould say, Why, therere all alike; you cant tell onefrom another. Such remarks awoke in me a new prideof ownership, and the more frequent sales inspired meto greater effort. Then there were Rose Comb Dan versBlacks, Single Comb Danvers Whites, and the Chitti-pattes. All fowls having five toes were were Buff, White, Black, Cray, and even Domi-nique Dorkings. Here I became a spendthrift, spendingmy only dolla
The Farm-poultry . se reproduced uniformly in type and color,and gave me my first insight into what a breed, to be abreed, should be. i. e., that all should be alike. Visitorswould say, Why, therere all alike; you cant tell onefrom another. Such remarks awoke in me a new prideof ownership, and the more frequent sales inspired meto greater effort. Then there were Rose Comb Dan versBlacks, Single Comb Danvers Whites, and the Chitti-pattes. All fowls having five toes were were Buff, White, Black, Cray, and even Domi-nique Dorkings. Here I became a spendthrift, spendingmy only dollar and a half for three eggs, from a pair fDominique colored five toed fowls, which never hatched. Then came Everlayers, which must have been across of the then Marsh, fowls and Cochin Chinas, muchresembling the Grouse Cochins, which appeared in thesixties. There were Malays, too, which did not at allresemble the Malays of todays, for they had single were Irish, English and Cuban Games, the names. I. K. VKIA H IN 1863. •?•..Heating the origin of each. There were White Nan-keen Bantams Booted Bantams we call them now —but the modern specimens are much smaller. The malesof the Nankeen Bantams were all of three pounds weight,and the females laid fair sized eggs. Those I had werevery prolific layers. I had run the gauntlet of all thesewith only the personal gratification of ownership, themoney received for eggs scarcely keeping me in spendingmoney. It seems little indeed now, but was enough toexcite the envy of my boy chums. There were the< iolden Pheasants, since called Golden Polish ; and SilverPheasants, also since improved to Silver Polish; but allwere indefinitely bred. Their crests were rudimentaryas compared with what is now considered the height ofperfection. In the care of all these there was nothing toexcite one to action or to achievement other than thegratification of a boys innate love for animated you wonder that his love was erratic, and
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