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FIfitiT LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



S. C. White foghorns. 



Rock and Wyandotte type?, and 

 though specimens conforming to 

 that description have been rare in 

 the past, more and more of them 

 are seen each year. Breeders of 

 these breeds should carefully dis- 

 tinguish the different types. Of the 

 other American varieties the Java 

 is of extreme Plymouth Rock type, 

 while the American Dominique 

 does not properly belong to this 

 class of fowls. 



Some of the types which in a natural 

 classification of the subject should 

 follow these cannot be so easily placed 

 or grouped, the divisions according to 

 shape not following Standard classifica- 

 tion. For this reason it is sometimes 

 more difficult to give the type an 

 appropriate name. Thus we have in 

 the Orpington fowl a more massive 

 American type, many of the Orping- 

 tons being conspicuously " Cochinny," 

 but other differences make it seem 

 inadmissible to put the Orpington in 

 the American type class, so we must 

 put it by itself as: 



4. 



The Orpington type. 

 Intermediate between American and Asiatic types. 



Then we have in the Dorking and the Houdan, two breeds of different classes but with a con- 

 spicuous resemblance in shape of body. We make them : 



5. The Dorking- Houdan type, 

 The characteristic of the shape in 



these two breeds is the full breast ^HL^^ ^ '*% r % ^^MK"^ ^ 



and rather long keel, giving the ^ W& fcl 



body some resemblance to that of 



a duck. This is most pronounced 



in the Dorking, which is the 



larger of the two breeds, and 



often a very massive fowl, but 



is also easily distinguished in 



some Houdans, though others 



seem entirely lacking in this 



feature. 



6. The Hamburg type. 



7. The Polish type. 



These two types are somewhat 

 similar, both small, fine boned, 

 very symmetrical and stylish 

 looking fowls, very energetic and 

 nervous. The Polish more round 

 and plump; the Hamburg, in the 

 larger specimens, sometimes sug- 

 gesting the Minorca or Dorking. 

 Game types. 

 Under this heading we have three s. C. Black Minorca*. 



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