. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Chinese races. In China atype of fowl in some ways muchlike the Malay, in others quitedifferent, had been developedas the common stock of thecountry. They were about astall as the Malays, much heav-ier, and very quiet and were of various colors,had feathers on the shanksand feet, and laid brown of these fowls werebrought to America in sailing Fig. 40. Dark Brahma hen vessels vei7 early in the last century and occasionally afterthat until the middle of the century, but attracted no attention, for the birds were broug
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Chinese races. In China atype of fowl in some ways muchlike the Malay, in others quitedifferent, had been developedas the common stock of thecountry. They were about astall as the Malays, much heav-ier, and very quiet and were of various colors,had feathers on the shanksand feet, and laid brown of these fowls werebrought to America in sailing Fig. 40. Dark Brahma hen vessels vei7 early in the last century and occasionally afterthat until the middle of the century, but attracted no attention, for the birds were broughtin small numbers forfriends of sailors or forpersons particularly in-terested in poultry, andat that time there wasno means of communi-cation between fanciersin different localities. Japanese races. Al-though the Japaneseraces of fowls had noparticular influence onthe development of poul-try culture in America,they are of great inter-est in a study of poul-. try types, because, when Fig. 41. Dark Brahma cockerel 52 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS intercourse between Japan and Western nations began, it wasfound that the ordinary fowls of Japan were much like theordinary fowls of Europe and America, and not, as would beexpected, like the fowls of China. This indicated that therehad been no exchange of fowls between China and Japan afterthe type in China became changed. It also affords strong evi-dence that the fowls of India and China, although so changed, were originally likethe European andJapanese commonfowls. The specialraces developed inJapan were GameFowls, more likethe European thanthe Malay type ;a long-tailed fowl,very much like theLeghorn in otherrespects; and thevery short-leggedJapanese Bantam. The hen-feverperiod. We are allfamiliar with thephrase the hen fever and with its application to personsintensely interested in poultry, but few know how it interest in better poultry that had been slowly growing inthe Eastern states cu
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