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than an ordinary barn-door fowl. And, as regards size, I have 

 never seen a very large cock so perfectly symmetrical, active and 

 smart as a medium-sized bird ; nor is anything to be gained by 

 such large birds either as game cocks or in the production of eggs 

 and chickens. Poultry keepers, from even an ordinary point of 

 view, should bear in mind that great frames and bone are unprofit- 

 able, that the fine quality and great proportion of meat, smallness 

 of bone, and absence of offal are never combined with great frames, 

 and great frames and great appetites go together, and that very 

 large animals or birds are never so prolific as those of ordinary 

 size, and are also more liable to unsoundness. Wheaten hens, too, 

 should certainly take a second place to the partridge-coloured as 

 a mate for black-bri?asted reds or for showing. 



