BLACK SPANISH FOWLS. 



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The varieties of Hamburgs, of which there are Black, Golden and 

 Silver Pencilled, Golden and Silver Spangled and White, are handsome 

 and good fowls; they are all good layers and hardy, but are rather too 

 small for market purposes. For family use they are desirable, when 

 fowls are kept for ornament as well as use. The comb is flat, rose 

 shaped and large, and terminates in a point behind. The Black 

 Spanish is a profitable fowl as regards the production of eggs, of 



which they will lay in a year one-third more than the large breeds, as 

 the light Brahmas and others of that class. But the hens of this 

 breed are poor brooders and rear very few chickens, so that this 

 product, which is really the most profitable, is of very little account. 

 These fowls have large, single, serrated combs, with large white ear 

 lobes and cheeks, and are very tender in our climate, frequently 

 having the combs frozen. 



