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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
x x v 11L Gams Fowls. 
The several varieties of game fowls are the most elegant and noble of 
Ihe gallinaceous tribe. The cockB are watchful, courageous, always ready 
to attack an enemy whatever it may be, and fighting to the death. And 
of most elegant carriage and coloring. The hens are good mothers, lay 
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the finest meated eggs of any breed, are hardy, and excellent foragers. 
There is hardly a breed of “dung-hill” fowls, but what owe their good 
qualities to the infusion of this prepotent blood. This general descrip- 
tion will suffice for all the varieties, which aro innumerable, and belong 
