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Rural School Leaflet 



The "American Standard of Perfection," published by the American 

 Poultry Association, contains illustrations and detailed descriptions of 

 all the principal breeds and varieties of poultry. 



Fig. 9. — La Flech 



V-shaped, medium spike comb, medium 

 to small size 



Fig. 1 1 . — Crevecoeur 



V-shaped, medium leaf comb, medium to 

 small size 



Fig. 10. — Houdan 



V-shaped, very small 



Fig. 12. — Malay 



Strawberry-shaped, small, symmetrical, finely 

 serrated, set slightly toward the front of 

 the head 



Editor's Note. — All lessons on poultry should have relation to real 

 live material. A visit to a poultry yard should be made and, if possible, 

 a simple survey of the poultry industry of the community should be 

 worked out. This will result in an awakened interest in the study of 

 all fowls; boys and girls will look on a hen in a new light and on the 

 basket of eggs on the pantry shelf with new intelligence. 



" What is all nature and human life at this moment, what the scenery 

 and vicinity of a human soul, but the song of an early sparrow from yonder 

 fences, and the cackling hens in the barn? So for one while my destiny 

 loiters within ear-shot of these sounds. The great busy Dame Nature 

 is concerned to know how many eggs her hens lay. The Soul, the pro- 

 prietor of the world, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering 

 of cattle, and the draining of peat meadows. Away in Scythia, away in 

 India, they make butter and cheese for its larder. * * * Was not 

 Christ interested in the setting hens of Palestine? " 



Thoreau, Journal 



