Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . for some familiesare extraordinary egg-producers taken a comparisonwith other large-bodied fowls. They are layers of large,bufi-coloredeggs, which are very rich, and great favoritesin the market. In disposition they are very kind andquiet. An ordinary picket-fence, three feet high, willrestrain them ; and if handled gently, they can be pickedup at any time. The plumage is white with black tail is black, as are also the flight feathers of thewings, which are not discernible when the wings arefolded. T
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . for some familiesare extraordinary egg-producers taken a comparisonwith other large-bodied fowls. They are layers of large,bufi-coloredeggs, which are very rich, and great favoritesin the market. In disposition they are very kind andquiet. An ordinary picket-fence, three feet high, willrestrain them ; and if handled gently, they can be pickedup at any time. The plumage is white with black tail is black, as are also the flight feathers of thewings, which are not discernible when the wings arefolded. There is also a fine penciling of black in theneck. It has a **pea, or triple comb, which, beingsmall and set close to the head, is proof against all or-dinary frost. They are easy to rear, very hardy, quickgrowers, and make very heavy fowls. On a well-keptlawn, there is nothing handsomer than a flock of LightBrahmas. It is an interesting fact in connection with this breedthat it is the only one of the Asiatic breeds not receivedthrough England. The original birds were broug>i. Fig. 62.—LIGHT BRAHMA COCK. (125) ASIATIC BREEDS. 127 by a sailor to New York, obtained by a Connecticutbreeder, the late Virgil Cornish of Hartford, bred andbrought out by him. DARK BRAHMAS. In an article which recently appeared in a poultryjournal, the writer says: But few of the breeders areaware of the fact that this beautiful breed was perfectedin the hands of our English breeders, out of a brood ofchickens that were bred by mating a Bhick-red Shanghaicock with a Gray Shanghai (or, as then called, Chitegong)hen. But this is the fact. They were sent to Englandby an American breeder. There was no more heard from them, and the wordDark Brahmas, as a distinct breed of fowls, Was notknown in America till 1865, when the first importa-tion was made. The assertion that the Dark and LightBrahmas were bred from the same original stock with-out crossing is not true. The first imported ones camewith far mor
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