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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



As layers, the Dorking hens take high rank, but are, we think, 

 inferior to the Spanish. They are persistent sitters, and make 

 excellent mothers and nurses. The editor of the Aiwrictm 

 Fig. 81. 



THE DORKING FOWL. 



Agriculturist says : "A little knowledge in keeping them 

 [the Dorkings] justified us in pronouncing them entitled to the 

 same rank among barn-yard fowls that the Short Horns have 

 taken among cattle ; and years of experience in breeding them 

 have confirmed us in this opinion." 



John Giles, a well known poultry breeder of Woodstock, 

 Conn., expresses the following opinion : " After forty-odd 

 years' experience with the gallinaceous tribes, I say that, in my 

 humble opinion, no breed of fowls will compare with the tru 3 

 Dorking as good mothers, sitters, and layers, giving eggs in 

 abundance, chickens easily reared, and which come to perfec 

 tion sooner than any other poultry. The flesh is of a delicate 

 white, fine in the grain, and delicious flavor. The Black Span- 



