THE 



AMERICAN POULTRY YARD; 



COMPRISING THE 



ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND DESCRIPTION 



OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS 



OF 



DOMESTIC POULTRY; 



COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR BREEDING, CROSSING, REARMS 

 FATTENING, AND' PREPARATION FOR MARKET; INCLUDING SPE- 

 CIFIC DIRECTIONS FOR CAPONISING FOWLS, AND FOR 

 THE TREATMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES TO 

 WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECT; DRAWN FROM 

 AUTHENTIC SOURCES AND PER- 

 SONAL OBSERVATION; 



ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 

 BY D. J. BROWNE, 



AUTHOR OF THE SYLVA AMERICANA. 



AN APPENDII, 



EMBRACING THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF DIFFERENT 

 BREEDS OF FOWLS, 



BY SAMUEL ALLEN. 



NEW YORK : 



PUBLISHED BY C. M. SAXTON, 

 1851. 



