Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . minique marked. BARN-YAED FOWLS. 1105 They have just a perceptible crest, pendent wattles, and very littlecomb. Whatever the color, they have but few feathers on the leo-s,which are slaty blue, and the thighs vulture hocked. The plumao-e isclose and compact, the ear lobes and wattles bright red and peculiar inshape. The chic
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . minique marked. BARN-YAED FOWLS. 1105 They have just a perceptible crest, pendent wattles, and very littlecomb. Whatever the color, they have but few feathers on the leo-s,which are slaty blue, and the thighs vulture hocked. The plumao-e isclose and compact, the ear lobes and wattles bright red and peculiar inshape. The chicks are hardy and feather quickly, and the eggs are large,smooth and excellent in flavor. Two peculiarities of this breed are thealmost total absence of comb, causing a depression in that part, and theircavernous and conspicuous nostrils. The accompanying illustration, to-gether with the cut of head on a previous page, will sufliciently portraytheir distinguishmg characteristics. XI. Spanish Pcrwls. There are a number of Spanish varieties besides the Pure Black andthe Pure White, as the Minorca or Red-faced Black, the Ancona, theGray or mottled, and the Andalusian or Blue Spanish. They have lono-been yalued in the United States for their great laying and non-sitting. PAIR OF SILVER-SPANGLED HAMBURGS. qualities, but are too tender to stand a northern climate, without extraprotection, and they do not do well anyw^here, when exj^osed to wet. Withproper attention, the fancier may get good returns in large, meaty, well-flavored eggs, and plenty of them. To the average farmer they are nota valuable breed. 1106 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. The characteristics of the two principal varieties are sufficiently wellportrayed by the illustration in connection with the following description:The weight of a full-grown Spanish cock should not be less than seven
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