Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . nve cuts of two heads, one tne Breda, or Gueldre, retaining the wattles,but not the marked comb, and a variety of Brahma, with no wattles, andwith only the rudiments of a comb. rv. Division of Fowls. Our barn-yard fowls may therefore be divided into the common ormixed breeds, Asiatic fowls, European and American varieties, a
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . nve cuts of two heads, one tne Breda, or Gueldre, retaining the wattles,but not the marked comb, and a variety of Brahma, with no wattles, andwith only the rudiments of a comb. rv. Division of Fowls. Our barn-yard fowls may therefore be divided into the common ormixed breeds, Asiatic fowls, European and American varieties, and Ban-tams. Each of these will be treated in their proper places. ORIGIN AND VARIETIES OF FARM BIRDS. 10S7 V. The Wild wild turkey is a native only of America; there are several so-called species, but they are, however, only varieties that have bred con-stant lo type, perhaps having escaped from some ancient are all fertile one with another. The turkey is native to all thatregion from Central America, north, up to 45 degrees, wherever suitabletimber covert can be found ; but in all the more thickly settled regionsthey have long since been exterminated. The illustrations show thecommon wild turkey hen, and the Mexican wild turkey GALLUS SONNERATIl. VI. of the wild fowl seem to have been more eaViVy domesticatedthan the duck, though the domestication of birds of any species seemseasy, whenever they prove valuable enough to pay their keepmg. Onlythe hirger varieties have, as a rule, been thought worth domestication,though^of late years some of the smaller and beautifully plumaged birdshave^been bred in a tame state. They make very handsome adjuncts towater scenery, in connection with swans and rarer species of geese. 1088 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR, The common white duck and the Rouen are two of the oldest domesti-cated varieties of ducks ; while the Cayuga, or black duck, an Americanvariety is among the
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