American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . tic races have departed from thewild type, in shape of the bones of the head,length and character of the bill, and the Darwin has much that is interestingto say about fowls,the numerous breedsof which he consid-ers to have originat-ed from one wildspecies. Strange, in-deed, that a speciesshould have variedso greatly as to giveus the tiny Bantamand the enormousCochin, the BlackSpanish, (fig. 3,) withits immense singlecomb and white face,and the Hamburgh,(fig. 4,) with its flat,curiously pointed,and marked comb!It is not our p
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . tic races have departed from thewild type, in shape of the bones of the head,length and character of the bill, and the Darwin has much that is interestingto say about fowls,the numerous breedsof which he consid-ers to have originat-ed from one wildspecies. Strange, in-deed, that a speciesshould have variedso greatly as to giveus the tiny Bantamand the enormousCochin, the BlackSpanish, (fig. 3,) withits immense singlecomb and white face,and the Hamburgh,(fig. 4,) with its flat,curiously pointed,and marked comb!It is not our pur-pose to review book, forour limits would notallow of that. Wecan only say, that noone has discusseuthe subjects of whichhe treats with somuch ability. Hehas given us a storeof facts, and the ex-planation of thewonderful variations in our domestic animalsand plants that seem to him indicated by thesefacts. In the above we have omitted all refer-ence to Mr. Darwins facts and investigationswith respect to plants. Some of these are niMBURGU 2.—SKULLS OF PIGEONS. from experiments of his own, developing someexceedingly curious facts in fertilization, andattended with results of great interest to thebotanist-and the general cultivator. Some maynot agree with his views, but none can deny theforce and fairness with which they are put. 178 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [Mat, Walks and Talks on the Farm—No. 53. Do you recollect a conversation we had aboutthe system adopted by the Herkimer Comitydairymen, of breeding and feeding cows solelyfor milk, without any reference to their valuefor beef when they were no longer profitablefor the dairy? I endeavored to show that atthe- present price of beef it would be better tokeep a cow five years and then sell her for beef,and get another and keep her five years andsell her also for beef, than it was to keep onecow teu years until she was used up and oflittle value except for the hide. In the lattercase, we figured a total profi
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