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POULTRY CULTURE 



FIG. 335. White Cornish Indian Game cock. (Photo- 

 graph from owner, Frank Brown, Marblehead, Mass.) 



pounds ; pullet, 5! pounds. These weights 

 exceeded, cocks weighing as 

 high as 1 1 and 1 2 pounds. 

 Though of pronounced game 

 type these birds are usually 

 classed as a meat or table breed. 

 The meat is very abundant, 

 especially on breast and legs. 

 They are reputed rather poor 

 layers of small, light-brown 

 eggs. There are three color 

 varieties, dark, white, and red- 

 laced. The dark variety are of 



The Cornish In- 

 dian Game x was 

 produced in England 

 about 1830 to 1840, 

 by crossing the Aseel 

 on the English Game, 

 and (it is supposed) 

 was improved many 

 years later by the in- 

 troduction of Malay 

 blood. In appearance 

 a giant Aseel, it has 

 little of the fighting 

 quality of that breed. 

 The American Stand- 

 ard weights are cock, 

 9 pounds ; hen, 6J 

 pounds ; cockerel, 7i 

 are very commonly 



FIG. 336. White Cornish Indian Game hen 

 (Photograph from owner, Frank Brown) 



1 I have retained this name as most 

 appropriate most suggestive of the 

 relation of this to other types. In 

 England the breed is known simply 

 as the Indian Game. In America it 



went by that name first but later was called Cornish Indian Game ; recently some 

 breeders, hoping to increase the popularity of the breed by eliminating the term 

 " game " from its name, have taken to calling it simply Cornish. 



