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BLACK SPANISH FOWLS 



BLACK SPANISH HEN. 



Mr. Giles is the most extensive fowl fancier, for pleasure 

 merely, in New England, and his opinion may be taken as the 

 result of a long experience. In a communication to me, pre- 

 vious to that which is here annexed, he said : " If I were asked 

 what fowls are best, if your object be eggs, I would recommend, 

 in all candor, the Black Spanish as preferable to all other breeds." 

 It may be proper, however, to add, that Mr. Giles is no friend 

 to the Asiatic breeds, and I think had not, at the time of writing 

 the above, ever kept any of the now reputed best large breeds, 

 as layers. 



PBOVTDENCE, May 8, 1852. 



T. B. 3ftner, Esq., Herewith please receive casts from my cuts of 

 fowls, as by your request. As you are about publishing a treatise on 

 poultry, I suppose that you are pretty well posted up in all matters 

 pertaining to it, and I will therefore venture but few remarks. 



There is a standard, you know, for fowls of pure blood, precisely as 

 there is for neat stock. This standard is that recognized by the Lon- 

 don Zoological Society, and is founded on close and continued obser- 



