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. Commercial poultry raising;. Poultry. ORIENTAL GAMES AND BANTAMS 75 tinguishing feature between the two. Bantam cocks average twenty-two ounces, and the hens twenty ounces. Oriental fowls comprise the Cornish, Sumatras and Malays, and the Malay Bantams. Cornish fowls, sometimes spoken of as Cornish Indian Games, are really an English product, having been originated in Cornwall, whence their name. They were produced from Black-Breasted Red Games crossed on Red Aseel. Fig. 48.—Red Pyle Game Bantams. fowls imported from India. This cross produced what is known as the Dark Cornish. There are thr
. Commercial poultry raising;. Poultry. ORIENTAL GAMES AND BANTAMS 75 tinguishing feature between the two. Bantam cocks average twenty-two ounces, and the hens twenty ounces. Oriental fowls comprise the Cornish, Sumatras and Malays, and the Malay Bantams. Cornish fowls, sometimes spoken of as Cornish Indian Games, are really an English product, having been originated in Cornwall, whence their name. They were produced from Black-Breasted Red Games crossed on Red Aseel. Fig. 48.—Red Pyle Game Bantams. fowls imported from India. This cross produced what is known as the Dark Cornish. There are three varieties: Dark, White, and White-Laced Red. See Figs. 9-49. The Whites were pro- duced from "sports" from the dark variety, crossed with White Aseel. See Fig. 23. The White-Laced are of Yankee origin, using both the Dark and White varieties, with some infusion of White Georgia Game Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roberts, Howard Armstrong, 1885- [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, D. McKay
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