BAKK-YAUD FOWLS. 



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themselves, and feather so early that they look to be miniature fowls 

 when six weeks or two months old. They are quiet and docile. The 

 eggs are superior in flavor, and as a table fowl they have few superiorib 

 among the gallinaceous tribe. 



LLACK MINORCA COLX.-ILIIL. 



XV 1. Ajnerican Breeds. 



The distmctive American breeds of barn-yard fowls that have attained 



wide celebrity are the Dominique, the Ostrich fowl, and the Plymouth 



Hock. The Dominique have often been confounded with the Scotch 



Grays, and also with the Cuckoo Dorkmgs and oth^^ fowls bred to the 



