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Identifier: poultrymanualgui00sewe (find matches)
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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. old race. The whitish lobe of the Dorking tells of its early ma-turity, good laying qualities and tender, fine-grained flesh. Colored Dorkings. The Dark or Colored are considerably the heaviest of theseveral families of Dorking. They are the largest class of Dork-ings ?hown at the leading English shows. The Colored Dorkings in England are bred very dark, sothat in many specimens we saw there a beetle greenish glosswas noticeable on the back and wings of the females. This isvery rarely seen in this country, except in lately imported speci-mens. The coloring of the back and wings of the female Colored Dorking is a rich tiown, finely intermixed with black, a lighttawny buff shaft, and shaamg to very dark at the tip and sides, DORKINGS. 55 forming a laced aprearance on the lighter specimens. Thebreasts of the hens are dull salmon, shading darker at the sides,near the wings, as though the coloring of the wings overran intothe shades of the breast; all grows darker towards the tail, which
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A Famous English Silver Gray Dorking Male. is brownish black. Altogether it is a rich, pleasing,*substantialcolor with a good, common sense look about it, and calculated tostay. 56 POULTRY MANUAL. The very darkest shades are said to have been brought aboutby an oriental cross in about 1858. Some think the old Sussexfowl had something to do in bringing the rich, dark brown shadesinto the plumage. The oriental cross is said to have addedweight, and for a long time in England preference was given atthe shows for the coarse birds. This has, however, long since

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