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 . SINGLE-COMB BROWN LEGHORN COCK. Whatever the color, they have all the good laying qualities of the Span-ish, without their tender qualities, and indeed dispute the palm with theHamburgs in every good point. The illustration shows what are ac-cepted among breeders standard White Leghorns. XV. White Leghorns. These birds 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 . SINGLE-COMB BROWN LEGHORN COCK. Whatever the color, they have all the good laying qualities of the Span-ish, without their tender qualities, and indeed dispute the palm with theHamburgs in every good point. The illustration shows what are ac-cepted among breeders standard White Leghorns. XV. White Leghorns. These birds are among the most elegant of barn-yard fowls, either inthe yard of the farmer or amateur. They are similar to the Spanish in ap-pearance, except that the plumage is white, with hackle or neck, and thesaddle or rump feathers tinged golden. Unlike the Spanish, they arehardy, standing even our western winters excellently. They are goodwinter layers, and seldom desire to sit; the young early take care of BAKK-YAUD FOWLS. t themselves, and feather so early that they look to be miniature fowlswhen six weeks or two months old. They are quiet and docile. Theeggs are superior in flavor, and as a table fowl they have few superioribamong the gallinaceous LLACK MINORCA XV1. Ajnerican Breeds. The distmctive American breeds of barn-yard fowls that have attained wide celebrity are the Dominique, the Ostrich fowl, and the Plymouth Hock. The Dominique have often been confounded with the Scotch Grays, and also with the Cuckoo Dorkmgs and oth^^ fowls bred to the 1112 CYCLOPEDIA OF UVE STOCK AND COMPLETB STOCK DOCTOB. cuckoo feather of England and France; they are, however, an old andentirely distinct American race. The Georgian Game is also a distinctAmerican breed, but this will be treated of under the head of Games. XV Jl. Dominique Fowls. For the farm-yard, when both eggs and chickens are desired, this breedwhen pure, (unfortunately now rather rare), is one of the most val
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