unless supplied ■with a sand batti; vermin, however, may bo 

 readily destroyed by dusting flour of sulpher under the feathers 

 with a common flour-dredger. 



THE MALAY FOWL. 



The Malay is a large heavy fowl, with close fitting .plumage; 

 it st-ands very high, and has an upright carriage; height is con- 

 sidered a great point in this breed; the head is small for the size 

 of the bird, with considerable fulness over the eye, which shovdd 

 be pearl, and the hawk bill should be quite free from stain. Like 

 the game fowl, the Malays are most pugnacious and determined 

 fighters, and therefore not suitable for small yards. If they can 

 get no other enemy they will even fight theh- own shadows. 



The chickens fledge late, and have for a long while a bare, 

 wretched appearance. They require a dry, warm temperature, 

 as in youth, before being fully feathered, ihey are very delicate 

 and highly susceptible of cold and wet. 



The Malays are good layers and sitters and after they are full 

 gfrown,^ can be kept most anywhere, but on account of their 

 vindictive cruel nature they are by.no means desirable to have 

 and my advice is, to have nothing to do with them. 



