Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-17

We have now in the yard about us,
somewhere about a dozen cockerels
now In full plumage-Black- Red
Games. Thus Ear only one serious
battle has occurred, and that showed
thatthe contestants were dead game.
We believe there is no handsomer
fowl in creation than the Black-Red
Game Cock in full feather. 1t is a
source OF constant pleasure to admire
their brillianl plumage and their gallant
bearing. We dc not know what we
would do withou: them. We find, too,
that the hens are good layers, and that
they are the best Of mothers, and. as
we think, the chickens are not equaled
Tor the table. On the other hand, our
friend and neighbor, Col. Berkeley, has
woods full of Sllver.Grcy Dorkings,
and ne thinks them unequaled, aud
they are certainly as good as the best.
Great layers and great raisers of broods;
lit to eat, perhaps, earlier that any
fowl We have knowledge of; good
toragers, making heavy weights and
superb breed for capons. The Colonel
raised this year, also, the finest flock of
Bronze Turkeys we ever saw together,
somewhere about seventy-fve of them.
Most improved breeds Of fowls, well
handled,pay the farmer very handsome
ly. The Light Bramahs are among the
best for farmers use. They are great
layers, and their eggs are good they
are good mothers and quite hardy, and
easier than most breeds to keep out of
mischief in gardens and grain fields
But doubtless, one will take more
pleasure, and find more profit in the
bleed that interests him most as a
fancier. A great many persons speak
favorably OF Plymouth Rocks, and we
think they are right about it. The
Hanburgs are apt to be liked by ladies,
for they are neat and beautiful, and
they breed uniform and true to color
aud markings. But there is in the path
Of the chicken raiser a dark shadow; 1t
is the spectre Of the dusky son of Ham;
and now that we are told the cow-skin
shall be taken from the hand of the
avenger Of chicken stealing, what are
We to do? Would to heaven that the
Exodus people would come hitler.
In the mean time. let him who would
raise chickens take heed to keep bull
dos and breech- loader, with a bag Of
cartridges, OF shot. say No. 9. Thus
prepared, the chicken raiser may get
up small Exodus" on his own ac-
count almost any night in the year.
And to whom it may concern we have
this 10 say: That the chicken raisers
are in dead earnest in this matter. They
mean to raise chickens as heretofore'
cow-skin or no cow-skin. And if II
has come 10 this, chicken stealers and
their confreres and compeers agains {
chicken raisers and their confreres and
compeers,we shall see by and b. who is
to be master ofthe premises. This is a
contest, as Professor Huxley puts it, to
be carried on b. thoughts and not by
bites; and whereas, some negroes are
doubtless as good or even better than
some white men, the average negro
cannot contend successfully with the
average white man, seeing that the
negro is prognathous, while the white
man is orthognathous. That is to say,
as compared with the chicken raiser,
the chicken stealer has the bigger jaw
and the smaller brain, and therefore
more Of the animal and less OF the man
in his nature. Just now, indeed, the
chicken raiser is between hawk and
buzzard, but he has several tricks to
show both hawk and buzzard before he
is done.