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Title: The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sewell, Franklane L Tilson, Ida E
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., Webb
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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to, showsremarkable development of the bird at six months of age. Hewas a bird combining in a marked degree the fancy qualifica-tions for a stunning show bird and a body of great substanceas a market fowl—depth of body and plumpness of breast wereat once seen. This with a delicate skin, fine bone, and earlymaturity, proved his value as market stock. At the age of six months his promise for a high grade showbird was marked in every section: Symmetrical, imposing incarriage, well filled in body, round in breast, broad in back, witha sweep onto the tail, remarkable for his age; neck and limbsof a proper length; a tail growing into a splendid shape, andwhich, with a little more age would be carried at quite the prop- 36 POULTRY MANUAL. er angle. A little fuller growth in hackle and saddle would givethe back a shorter appearance and deeper concave of back; thelegs and feet feathered to suit the Standard. The plumage laidsmoothly over all sections, and was rich in greenish luster. In i^^
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Black Langshan Male, Paragon 7th, Referred to by Mr. Sewell. LANGSHANS. • 37 full plumage we found the bird had reached our every expecta-tion. The continual inbreeding of very short-backed Langshans,we have found, tends to lessen the size, so a longer backed fe-male, if she is a real extra large one, will prove of value.However, we would never expect to get fine stylish show birdsfrom long, flat-backed males They tend toward a production ofthe Java type, which has a very tame outline to the eye ofLangshan exhibitors. Spare the knife and spoil the stock. Close selection mustbe resorted to if improvement is looked for among show or mar-ket stock. Your breeding stock should not grow up in crowdedpens, and the quicker the roosters are got rid of, the betterchance will the fine birds have. We have seen many fine Lang-shans purple tinged and gray tipped from only depleted con-stitutions, when with freer range and better care their plumagemight have shown a healthier greenish luster and b

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