Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-01-05
BREEDS AND VARIETIES GALORE.

BREEDS AND VARIETIES GALORE.
Gracious goodness" exclaimed a
woman at "A fair where COCO fowls
were exhibited. Il never saw 80 many
kinds Of chickens. Why. th.y arc al
the coiors Of the rainbow:
"Exaggerating." yuu remark. Who
ever heard OF a blue or green chickeng"
But listen TO our little lay
The Blue Andaluslan has a red
comb. white ear lObeS aud blue plum
age. and thus every tune he crows
and wags bis tail ne waves the red.
white and blue. The fanciers Of the
Emerald Isle last year succeeded ~
breeding emerald green chickens. and
what convenience for 81 I'atrick's
day they must be. or course the mil
lions OF green ducks bred In New York
and Pennsylvania are not lust that
color. but In midwiDter IL surely lakes
the long green TO buy them
But isn't IL wonderful what breeds.
varieties and colors OF chickens there
sre. and all descended from the little
Jungle fowl OF India.
In the STANDARD OF Perfection" the
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classes. 81 breeds and lO4 varieties
The chief classes are the American.
English. Mediterranean aud Asiatic.
The American consists OF six breeds
Plymouth Rocks. WyandOttes. Javas.
Dominiques. Rhode Island Reds aud
Buckeyes. and there are seventeen va
rieties OF these. unless some Yaukee
has recently Invented new one
or English there are three breeds
DorkinSs. Redcaps and Orpingrons.
With ive varieties
The Mediterranean consists OF tive
breeds-LeEhurus. Minorcas. Spanish.
Ancouas and Andalusiaus. with thir-
teen varieties.
OF the Asiatics there are three breeds
-Brahmas. Cochins aud Langshans.
With eight varieties.
Now add the other seventeen breeds.
With their varieties. and the many
other breeds and crossbreeds and their
varieties and you will quickly con-
clude that the worlds fun OF Growers.
Perhaps there may be "notbiug new
under the sun" but sure there IS some
thing new doing under the hen. for
while you are reading this hen tale
some rooster genius is working over
time to turn out a newfaugled Grower.
The unappreciative world Just now
passes by such meritorious work. but
the day is coming when the bail Of
fame will contain memorials like the
following:
IN memory o, famed ELL Brown
The smsrtes' rooster man IN town.
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For these ne hustled day and night
Though preachers ate them steved and
fried
BIN sweat 20 keep the world supplied.
Hence here We place this eulogy
TO BIZ. the rooster prodigy.
But aren't they Jest chickens any
how:'
Yes. and more
While color is the only difference be-
tween some. especially varieties OF the
50 NE breed, for convenience we divide
them into fancy. meat egg and gen
eral purpose breeds.
That word fancy" refers especially
TO ornamental fowls. such as Sukies.
frizzles and those pretty lllliputiaus Of
poultrydom the bantams.
Some dumb smart aleck has ap-
piled this word fancy" 10 all show
birds. and so Mr.. Know-it-am arises 10
remark that show birds are simply 4
handful OF pretty feathers.
What a hot air hallucination OF az
overworked Imagination,
Next 10 fancy are the strictly e-c
breeds, which are mostly small. uerv
Gus. nonsetters. great foragers and I'll
erS. representative Of which are Leg
horns. Minorcas and \ ndaluSianS.
The meat breeds. represented by
Brahmas. COchlns and Langshans. are
awkward. great settlers. poor layers
but prime for holiday market
The general purpose fowl is fine foI
table, good FOR eggs. a good setter and
mother. active aud gentle.
This the most popular OF breeds i.
represented by the Wyandotte. Plym
/ outh Rock and Rhode Island Red
these three fowls being most popular
in their order IN the United States 10
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