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POULTRY CULTURE 



Fig. 379. Silver Braekel cockerel. (Photograph from 

 owner, Thomas Keeler, Waverly, New York) 



races as the Houdan 

 and similar breeds 

 in France. 



The Asiatic meat 

 type. It has been 

 shown that in south- 

 eastern Asia there 

 was developed a 

 large, coarse type 

 of game fowl — the 

 Malay — which more 

 than a hundred years 

 ago found its way to 

 Britain and was used 

 there later to make 

 the Indian Game. It 

 has also been stated 

 that fowls brought 

 from Asia began to be exploited, about the middle of the last cen- 

 tury, by men who claimed to have introduced them from the Orient, 

 and the public became interested in 

 them ; but at the same time it was 

 found that there were many such 

 fowls in America, particularly in 

 New England. 



On the assumption that the Asi- 

 atic races, — the Cochin, Brahma, 

 and Langshan, — as now known 

 and bred in America and England, 

 are distinct breeds of different 

 origin, coming from different parts 

 of China and India, there has 

 been, since the public first began 

 to be interested in them, a long 

 series of controversies as to origin, 

 precise dates of importations, cor- 

 rect types, etc. All this has tended to cloud the facts. Having 

 seen how in the European races the differentiation of breeds and 



Fig. 380. Silver Braekel pullet 



(Photograph from owner, Thomas 



Keeler, Waverly, New York) 



