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free from feathering. They are very quiet, social birds, excellent layers, sitters 

 and mothers, without that inveterate sitting propensity of all Asiatics. The 

 chicks feather early, grow plump at six weeks, and are prime for the table after 

 eight weeks old. They are very hardy afid healthy, and for general food quali- 

 ties and purposes 1 have never raised their equal." 



In September, 1879, Francis Soule writes in the same journal of this breed, 

 calling it the American Sebright, as follows : 



"At the last exhibition of the Massachusetts Poultry Association, held in 

 Roston, I called the attention of two of the committee to my fowls, and asked 

 what prospect there was of their being admitted into the Stamdourd. ' They said 

 they were fine birds, and the breeders of this variety should agree upon the 

 standard. But as long as some want single combs and some rose-combs ; some 

 feathered legs and some smooth legs, they cannot agree to admit them." 



Mr. Soule further proposes that breeders agree upon rose-combs and 

 smooth, yellow legs-rSUch fowls, in short, as are shown in_our illustration, on 

 p ge 145. : 





