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to the good quality of a Eumpless fowl on the dinner-table, the flesh being 
abundant, white. Arm, and of good flavour ; but, as a drawback to their utility, 
it may be stated that all Bumpless fowls are sadly prone to lay unfertilized 
eggs.” 
There can be no difficulty whatever in rearing specimens of almost any breed 
without a tail. Some years since the editor had in his possession a specimen of a 
tailless crested bird, and from this hen, as described at page 191, he reared a 
number of Bumjpless Polish, by mating her with a White Polish cock ; some of 
the offspring were matched up with Golden Polish, and some very good Bumpless 
Gold-spangled chickens were the result. The strain was then given to a gentle- 
man, who, though not an exhibitor, has amused himself in mating these 
Bumpless birds with other varieties; in this manner he has reduced their size 
very much, and has at present a pretty set of very small Bumpless Nankin Ban- 
tams, which are the greatest novelty we have ever seen in Bumpless breeds. 
