The century illustrated monthly magazine . CHICKENS FOR USE AND HERE has been, dur-ing the last quarter ofa century, a remarkableimprovement in domes-tic poultry. The mot-ley array of fowls vary-ing in size and color,as uncertain in markingas the pattern of a crazy-quilt, and creating animpression as distinc-tively unfavorable asthat which the raggedfollowers o f Falstaff pro-duced, has given placeto well-defined breeds,carefully differentiatedinto varieties, with col-ors as rich in hue andas regularly disposed asif laid on by the handof the artist. The fan-cier, to whom we are in-deb
The century illustrated monthly magazine . CHICKENS FOR USE AND HERE has been, dur-ing the last quarter ofa century, a remarkableimprovement in domes-tic poultry. The mot-ley array of fowls vary-ing in size and color,as uncertain in markingas the pattern of a crazy-quilt, and creating animpression as distinc-tively unfavorable asthat which the raggedfollowers o f Falstaff pro-duced, has given placeto well-defined breeds,carefully differentiatedinto varieties, with col-ors as rich in hue andas regularly disposed asif laid on by the handof the artist. The fan-cier, to whom we are in-debted for this wonder- ful transformation, is indeed an artist, working not in lifeless clay and dead pigments, but in back a rich, deep vinous rust color; the tail hen, differing in size, color, and particularcharacteristics, should be descendants of acommon ancestor, the Gallus bankivus, at firstseems incredible. To this conclusion, however,the best informed naturalists have come. It istrue that the almost infinite plasticity of thechicke
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