. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . ropor-tioned body, large head, small top-knot, falling is bearded, and has five claws on each foot. It is agood-sized fowd, weighing, when fully grown—cock, 6 lbs.;hen, from 4^ to 5 lbs. The plumage should be speckled,white, black, and straw color. The comb is the most re-markable part of this bird; and I can not do better thanquote
. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . ropor-tioned body, large head, small top-knot, falling is bearded, and has five claws on each foot. It is agood-sized fowd, weighing, when fully grown—cock, 6 lbs.;hen, from 4^ to 5 lbs. The plumage should be speckled,white, black, and straw color. The comb is the most re-markable part of this bird; and I can not do better thanquote my before-named authority: Comb, triple, trans-versal in the direction of the beak, composed of two flat-tened spikes, of long and rectangular form, opening fromright to left like two leaves of a book, thick, fleshy, andvariegated at the edges. A third spike grows betweenthese two, having somewhat the shape of an irregularstrawberry, and the size of a long nut. Another, quitedetached from the others and about the size of a pea,should show between the nostrils and above the gives the bird a grotesque appearance, and there isan air of impudent drollery and humor about him that ispeculiar to the breed. The legs are dark leaden grey. In. FRENCH BEEEDS OF FOWLS. 73 this breed the hens approach more nearly the weight ofthe cock than is usual. The hen is bearded and top-knot-ted, the latter appendage almost concealing the fowls are very popular in France, as layers andtable-fowls. THE CEEYECCEUE. This is better known than any of the French fowl; it isone of the best layers, not only on account of number, butalso of size, being equal in this respect to the Spanish. Itis a short-legged breed, square-bodied, deep chest, wellshaped for the table. Like most of these breeds, it is bearded and top-knotted,but the latter appendage is not that of the Poland. It ismore like a crest, and allows room in front for the is singularly shaped, and I shall again quote
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