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Rugg remarks, in a letter to the author, of January 28, 1850, 

 as follows : 



" Our mutual friend, George P. Burnham, Esq., of Rox- 

 bury, writes me that he has just received his ' Royal Cochin 

 Chinas ;' to which I immediately replied, that, without seeing 

 them, I was willing to wager him the best pair of fowls I have, 

 against his Gray Chittagongs which I sent him, that the latter 

 would outweigh his Cochin Chinas, by three and a half pounds 

 per pair ! I know, as to weight, they have no fowls in all Eng- 

 land equal to ours ; nay, every sailor and cabin-boy knows as 

 much." 



Mr. Burnham, in an editorial in the Boston American Union 

 of February 2, 1850, after giving a glowing and beautiful 

 description of his late importation of Royal Cochin China 

 fowls the same to which Mr. Rugg alludes says : "As 

 compared with the Chittagong, however, we rather prefer that 

 fowl, as yet." 



/, nevertheless, prefer the Royal Cochins, from the fact that 

 they participate in the fine blood of the Wild Indian Game 

 fowl, than which the world produces no better. 



I have myself lately received some very superior specimens 

 of the Imperial Chittagong from Mr. Rugg, of which he writes 

 as follows : " They are quite equal to Mr. Burnham's." 



That is enough. To have said more would have been a 

 work of supererogation. It is my intention to breed from these 

 on a large scale, and I shall have the pleasure of enabling per- 

 sons interested in the improvement of poultry to procure the 

 best blood possible to be obtained ; as will, also, Asa Rugg, 

 Esq., of Kensington, (Philadelphia,) George P. Burnham, 

 Esq., of Roxbury, Mr. Joseph A. Sampson, of Duxbury, and 

 Messrs. Theodore Drew, William Gooding, Samuel Shaw, 

 and Abijah Drew, of Plymouth. 



Some superb specimens of the Impejial Chittagong Fowl 



