. Profitable poultry keeping. plentiful, the head is surmounted by alarge crest, with heavy muffs below, the hock and leg feathersare well developed, and the birds are fairly hardy. Theyare good laj^ers and non-sitters, but cannot be regarded ascommercial fowls. Scotch Greys. Until a few years ago, very few of these handsome birdswere to be seen in England and almost none in have been long kept in Scotland, and the first Edin-burgh show we ever visited was a revelation to us, for sometwo or three hundred birds were there exhibited. They arereally a large, hardy, cuckoo Dorking wit
. Profitable poultry keeping. plentiful, the head is surmounted by alarge crest, with heavy muffs below, the hock and leg feathersare well developed, and the birds are fairly hardy. Theyare good laj^ers and non-sitters, but cannot be regarded ascommercial fowls. Scotch Greys. Until a few years ago, very few of these handsome birdswere to be seen in England and almost none in have been long kept in Scotland, and the first Edin-burgh show we ever visited was a revelation to us, for sometwo or three hundred birds were there exhibited. They arereally a large, hardy, cuckoo Dorking without the fifth toe,and are capital layers, good sitters and mothers, first-ratetable birds, hardy, and can be reared on almost any soil,though they do best in dry places. Having white or mottledlegs, they can be used both for a chicken trade and as layers,and their economic qualities will doubtless insure them awelcome in many places, where they have heretofore beenunknown, and where a hardy and large fowl is
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