An introduction to agriculture . BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK WHITE WYANDOTTE inactive, poor foragers, and not nervous. They laybrown eggs, and make fair sitters and mothers. The POULTKY 235 Brahmas have pea combs; the Cochins and Langshanshave single combs. They are pi-imarily raised fortable fowls. Cliaracteridics of the American Class.— The differ-ent breeds of poultry of theAmerican class are the com-monest and most widely dis-tributed. Thev are of med-ium size, fatten fairly wellfor table use, and at thesame time are i>ood are sometimes calledthe dual purpose breeds, aname which de
An introduction to agriculture . BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK WHITE WYANDOTTE inactive, poor foragers, and not nervous. They laybrown eggs, and make fair sitters and mothers. The POULTKY 235 Brahmas have pea combs; the Cochins and Langshanshave single combs. They are pi-imarily raised fortable fowls. Cliaracteridics of the American Class.— The differ-ent breeds of poultry of theAmerican class are the com-monest and most widely dis-tributed. Thev are of med-ium size, fatten fairly wellfor table use, and at thesame time are i>ood are sometimes calledthe dual purpose breeds, aname which describes themvery well. They have nofeathers on their birds are active, notnervous, fairly good forag-ers, and they make iiood sit-ters and mothers. They lay eggs having a light browncolor. \ Characteristics of the English Class.— The birds ofthis class resemble those of the American class in size,form and utility. They are a distinct dual purposefowl. 218. Egg Production.— There is not the differencein egg produ
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