. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 24. Pit Game cock. (Photograph fromW. F. Liedtke, Meriden, Connecticut) both boys and girls in a family, such outdoor work usually fallsto the lot of a boy. A girl can do just as well if she has theopportunity and takes an interest in the work. Native fowls in America. To appreciate the influence ofimproved races of fowls from various parts of the Old Worldupon the development of poultry culture in America, wre mustknow what the fowls in this country were like when poultrykeepers here began to see the advantages of keeping bettersto
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 24. Pit Game cock. (Photograph fromW. F. Liedtke, Meriden, Connecticut) both boys and girls in a family, such outdoor work usually fallsto the lot of a boy. A girl can do just as well if she has theopportunity and takes an interest in the work. Native fowls in America. To appreciate the influence ofimproved races of fowls from various parts of the Old Worldupon the development of poultry culture in America, wre mustknow what the fowls in this country were like when poultrykeepers here began to see the advantages of keeping betterstock, and must learn something of the history of the improvedraces in the countries from which they came, FOWLS 43. When we speak ofnative fowls in Americawe mean fowls derivedfrom the stocks broughthere by the early fowl was not knownin the Western Hemi-sphere until it wasbrought here by Euro-peans. Britain, France,Spain, Holland, andSweden all sent coloniststo America, and fromeach of these countriescame, no doubt, some Fig. 25. Dominique cockerel. (Photographfrom 0f fae ordinary fowls ofW. H. Davenport, Coleraine, Massachusetts) ^ improved varieties came from some of these lands in earlycolonial times, but the onlybreeds that retained their iden-tity sufficiently to have distinc-tive names were the GameFowls, which came mostly fromEngland, and the Dominiques(bluish-gray barred fowls whichprobably came from Holland orfrom the north of France, wherefowls of this type were common). The Game Fowls, being prizedfor the sport of cockfighting,were often bred with great care,but the Dominique fowls (alsocalled cuckoo fowls and hawk-colored fowls) were mixed withother stock, and the name was
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