This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...Chittagongs, Brahma Pootras, Cochins, Warhens and Warhoos. They 're nice birds, great layers, small eaters, but they--dortit pay J" Mr. Green was cured, of course; and though his anticipations were great, yet he had his predecessors and his successors in the hen traffic, who were almost as sanguine as he, and who not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...Chittagongs, Brahma Pootras, Cochins, Warhens and Warhoos. They 're nice birds, great layers, small eaters, but they--dortit pay J" Mr. Green was cured, of course; and though his anticipations were great, yet he had his predecessors and his successors in the hen traffic, who were almost as sanguine as he, and who not only "paid through the nose " for their experience, but who came off, in the end, really, with quite as little success. Mr. Green was but one of many. Mr. Green was one of " the people." It will be remembered that my correspondents allude to the fowls they " see in the noospapers" / had seen these birds, in the same way, before they did. And a London dealer wrote me that he could send me a lot of Egleton's "famous" stqck, "which took the three first premiums at a metropolitan show, and two descendants of which, at the close of the late exhibition, were sold at auction for forty-eight guineas ($262)." I immediately sent out for a few of these monsters. They were described to me as being of enormous size, and feathered upon the legs; and I was now somewhat surprised to note that several of the English societies decided that the true "Cochin-China" fowl (as they term this variety) come only with feathered legs. The very stock above alluded to, however, came direct from the city of Shanghae; and duplicate birds of the same blood were delineated in the London Illustrated News. The metropolitan associations required that all Cochin-China fowls put in competition for premiums must be feathered-legged. This was a new decision, aS it is well known that every importation of domestic fowl yet brought out from China direct come more or less clean-legged; and that fully one half of their proge...
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Hbk 326pp no dj as issued gilt and embossed black cloth boards spine shows some loss at top and is beginning to split extremities rubbed pages showing some foxing with a closed tear to front endpaper a good candidate for rebinding or restoration
