. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fic Silver-Gray Dorkinsr cock that color, until after theimprovement of fowlsbegan. Then some peo-ple collected flocks offowls of this color andbred them for uniform-ity in other fowls, how-ever, were compara-tively rare. Most of thestock all through thecountry was of the littlemongrel type until aboutthe middle of the lastcentury. Then that typebegan to disappear fromNew England, NewYork, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. It remainedlonger in the Northern states west of the Allegheny Mountainsand a generation ag
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fic Silver-Gray Dorkinsr cock that color, until after theimprovement of fowlsbegan. Then some peo-ple collected flocks offowls of this color andbred them for uniform-ity in other fowls, how-ever, were compara-tively rare. Most of thestock all through thecountry was of the littlemongrel type until aboutthe middle of the lastcentury. Then that typebegan to disappear fromNew England, NewYork, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. It remainedlonger in the Northern states west of the Allegheny Mountainsand a generation agowas still the most com-mon type in the upperMississippi Valley. Itis now unknown outsideof the Southern states,and within ten or twentyyears it will disappearentirely. Old European racesof fowls. With the ex-ception of the Leghorn,most of the distinctbreeds of European origin were brought from England, and thetypes introduced were not the types as developed in the places. Fig. 28. Silver-Gray Dorking hen FOWLS 45
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