. RUSSIAN FOWLS. a beard. The color varies ; some are white, some blue or black, and others ar^ colored like the game fowl. The flesh of this variety is white and good. Thoy are, likewise, good layers, are hardy, and easily fed. This fowl is sometimes colored like the Spangled Hamburgh—some gold and some silver spangled. When thus colored, they are deemed valuable. XVII. THE FRIZZLED FOWL Is SO called from the crisped and frizzled appearance of its feathers, and not, as some have erroneously asserted, from a corruption of Friesland, at one time improperly conceived to be its native country. It
. RUSSIAN FOWLS. a beard. The color varies ; some are white, some blue or black, and others ar^ colored like the game fowl. The flesh of this variety is white and good. Thoy are, likewise, good layers, are hardy, and easily fed. This fowl is sometimes colored like the Spangled Hamburgh—some gold and some silver spangled. When thus colored, they are deemed valuable. XVII. THE FRIZZLED FOWL Is SO called from the crisped and frizzled appearance of its feathers, and not, as some have erroneously asserted, from a corruption of Friesland, at one time improperly conceived to be its native country. It is a native of Java, and other parts of Eastern Asia: it is smaller than our common fowl, is very susceptible of cold, and is, on that account, very difficult to rear. These fowl are particularly sensible of wet, the chickens especially; they are very
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