| Show I MAKING L J SG J GItO I How Tapani Fouls Fault Are Arc t to Secure Ile Hc From FlOm Professor Pr Deans Dean's I enn The Long-feathered Long Fowls of or Japan In the April Century That the long bug ong- ong tailed fowl was vas earl early r in Japan I is kit credible erect erect- ible 1110 from roust tho the legend evidently o of abysmal antiquity of Ama Amo Terasu the Sun Suii goddess who having retired into a n. cavern to the Intense discomfiture world enticed out mit of ot the tho was sas nearly again by y the lie crowing of or a cock cock to lo remind her no doubt that thal It was wa her usual hour hO to appear Another An An- I An-I other somewhat gho ghostly evidence of ot I Ithe the antiquity of oC the lie breed has been I cited In tho lie ho o bird which was pictured pictured pic pie in Japan as ns early cary as the eighth century cent This fabulous bit bird resembled both pheasant and anti peacock but it has lias clearly the thc tall and anti very cry luxuriant one Otto of the fowls o of Tosa Toga In which every even feather father as the poetical Japanese Japan Japan- ese remarks resembles a leaf blade lade of Ito tho bamboo It is known that in many kinds of or birds certain feathers continue to grow row until the they 1103 are lost h by molting amid in all birds it happens occasionally occasional occasIonal- ly that a feather may be hc- molL molted ll at an irregular lar time Accordingly ly it follows fol 01 InI- InI lows I that hn t I if fowls owls can cami be Ie secured which ate aro irregular 1 11 in iii their h period o of molting let us say say- ai tho the till lull f feathers these th se will trill continue to grow grove longer l forlie for forthe the lie reason that they have o hail had a a. longer long long- er Si I time tinie in which to 10 grow Front From this be beginning it Is now possible to infer that by hy It a process of carefully selecting select select- lug ing and amid from front those owls fowls In which the molting season is suppressed suppressed suppressed sup sup- pressed In certain parts of the body it would be he to obtain a variety vane varie l ty in which the lie tail tall feathers would bo he much longer than in other fowls A second hut hutel very el important pmt part of the proe process con consists in Iii feeding ceiling the bird bini to the maximum degi cc C in order to lo stimulate the growth of the fea lea 1 At the tho same time butte the Ito hiJ bud bird should not be hc allowed to 10 ell dissipate its ln energy y h by ty leading an nn active life or 01 to torun torun run unnecessary an chances s 's o of breaking the he constantly growing ln feathers Thus I learned ned from flOm the fanciers at al Tosa fosa that it is customary to confine till the birds in relatively small cages ICS and to feed them often and with peculiar pecullar food Details of the lie latter I was to secure althou although h certain cortin hints were given me as to the virtue of boiled ke rice of an occasional scrap of or eel ciel and of diakon giant ra radish leaf 1 I fancy an C though that an any kind of poultry food ma may be he u used elI But Hut in this tills regard ono is cautious In drawing a ahal hal hard fast nn fasl conclusion lon because itis it itIs ItIs Is known that feathers ate subject to modification in various ways dependent depend depend- ent upon food tood Thus Titus the color of the feathers fe of or certain pani-os pani have o been strikingly changed et h by tho hit South Sea Sen slanders Islanders who uvito fee feed the birds upon fat a L of 00 ji uEn Ish And i n 1 ti ut rc reddish color under special I conditions as by the he lauders fanciers In lit 1 harts Hart mountains In man many cases in order to avoid old accident accident ac ac- ac- ac to the lon long feathers feathe each fancier fan Can nit nit- cier It I 1 am ani told convenient to coil coli up the longest feathers an and wrap and tie lie them carefully in lit soft paper papel so 0 that the thC bird runs a n minimum chance of breaking them hem nl High h porches porch es Cs are arc emphatically advocated I have ha been told not on the he best t evidence however that In lii sonic some ca cases es the lie bit bird birdis I is 1 in a tight cage so that hint HIs Itis it H itis is not possible lot for It to shift its po i- i lion In Iii tills this cramped wa way wit with It the lie tall tail hanging down behind a bird i N i said ald to lo be lc kept penned up miserably lou for periods of months Certain it Is that under CI favorable conditions the growth of or tho the tail feathers can an ii bo he forced forcell by the fancier Under ordinary conditions a n. cod Cock whose tail lall mc measures a. a live e or ot- six feet will rarely grow longer feathers For by y active life it is probable able that a gradual molting of these theRe long feathers takes take place On the other other other oth oth- oth- oth er hand molting is more apt to be he suppressed by the unwholesome JIIng living liv liv- ing lug of oC a bird 1 during the process of over o If It accordingly a cock whose tail feathers are alt of tho lie normal Z length is taken talen in training by hy a skilled skillet 4 fancier he can I am ant told olti stimulate i a n growth th ro In these thc feathers cathers at nt the rate I of or about six Inches per pcr month |
