. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 379. Silver Braekel cockerel. (Photograph from owner, Thomas Keeler, Waverly, New York) races as the Houdan and similar breeds in France. The Asiatic meat type. It has been shown that in south- eastern Asia there was developed a large, coarse type of game fowl — the Malay—which more than a hundred years ago found its way to Britain and was used there later to make the Indian Game. It has also been stated that fowls brought from Asia began to be exploited, about the middle of the last cen- tury, by men who claimed to have introduced t
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 379. Silver Braekel cockerel. (Photograph from owner, Thomas Keeler, Waverly, New York) races as the Houdan and similar breeds in France. The Asiatic meat type. It has been shown that in south- eastern Asia there was developed a large, coarse type of game fowl — the Malay—which more than a hundred years ago found its way to Britain and was used there later to make the Indian Game. It has also been stated that fowls brought from Asia began to be exploited, about the middle of the last cen- tury, by men who claimed to have introduced them from the Orient, and the public became interested in them ; but at the same time it was found that there were many such fowls in America, particularly in New England. On the assumption that the Asi- atic races, — the Cochin, Brahma, and Langshan, — as now known and bred in America and England, are distinct breeds of different origin, coming from different parts of China and India, there has been, since the public first began to be interested in them, a long series of controversies as to origin, precise dates of importations, cor- rect types, etc. All this has tended to cloud the facts. Having seen how in the European races the differentiation of breeds and. Fig. 380. Silver Braekel pullet (Photograph from owner, Thomas Keeler, Waverly, New York). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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