. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. POULTRY POULTRY 529 and preserved till today as the trademark of the Dorking and Houdan races; a cerebral hernia, known for over four hundred years, and become a trademark of the Polish and Houdan ; and a rudi- mentary comb, probably associated originally with the cerebral hernia but now capable of being in- herited independently of it. The fowls first imported to America were Games (largely in the South), Leghorns direct from Italy, and certain English derivatives of the Mediter- ranean breeds, such as the Dorkings and Scotch Gr
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. POULTRY POULTRY 529 and preserved till today as the trademark of the Dorking and Houdan races; a cerebral hernia, known for over four hundred years, and become a trademark of the Polish and Houdan ; and a rudi- mentary comb, probably associated originally with the cerebral hernia but now capable of being in- herited independently of it. The fowls first imported to America were Games (largely in the South), Leghorns direct from Italy, and certain English derivatives of the Mediter- ranean breeds, such as the Dorkings and Scotch Grays, with their barred markings from which the barred Plymouth Rocks of today have probably been derived, in part. On this stock were engrafted, by importations, the stocky eastern types—the Brahmas, from the Brahmapootra river and the Cochins from Shanghai, China. The latter two were used to give the breadth and weight of our Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and others ; the pea- comb of the Brahma has been used to reduce the great single comb of the Mediterranean breeds to form the neat comb of the " Rocks," and the solid buff color has been used in the Rhode Island Reds as well as the buff varieties of the Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes. The effect of crossing the Medi- terranean and Asiatic types has been to give a general-purpose fowl of great utility to the farmer, who needs a hen that is a fair layer, a good mother, and a meat-producer. The American experiment of making a general-purpose fowl proved so success- ful that it was repeated in England and resulted in the Orpingtons, made up of various combinations of Mediterranean, Eastern and American types. Thus, the general-purpose fowls of both England and America owe their origin to combinations of the derivatives of the jungle-fowl and the Aseel types. But, for egg-production, the Mediterranean type has never been surpassed, and as a table bird the Aseel derivatives, including the Indian Games, Cochins and Brahmas,
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