Show S t S 5 j i. i r Bia and a Su Fowl GREAT ENGLISH FOWL HARD TO REAR IN UNITED STATES BY LOUIS PAUL GRAHAM Dorkings Said to Be First Known Domestic Poultry History Being Traced to Times of Pliny Romans Pliny-Romans Romans Are Thought to Have Taken Th Them m to England Copyright 1513 1313 by br Eugene CI Co fowl Is credited with pill u H Dorking T I being th the oldest known domestic SE A fowl Writers ha have havo 6 traced Its Iti h history history his his- Is- Is and the ito Ho- time of oC Pliny tor tory to lo the mans ma n S. S Roman noman It Is la supposed that the thc toed five planted specimens of this breed in ill l and from Crom them the Dorkings English history sprang and record their Introduction do does doe not they the appear to have havo been re regarded as 38 native to J n land The breed was fostered fostered fos fos- cultivated In the vicinity orthe of or tred and the town of Dorking from which It Itt t takes Its Us name Karly English h writers classified the tIle Dorkings Into eight or ten differently colored varieties bUt bin the American standard of at perfection n reco recognizes nl s three thre the 1110 IJ n. n C C- CWhite White Color Colored d or Dark Daric and arid tho the Silver Gray English on fanciers also ahw accept breed and exhibit Red fied Dorkings and others termed Cuckoo Colored which are marked like our Barred Kocha Dort ln s are reco recognized cas as English fowls Cowls chiefly because all their beautiful beautiful ful and utility qualities have been do- do by hy these painstaking fanciers The TIle Dark Dorkings S or Colored Dorkings Dorkings Dor Dor- kings ar are arp somewhat lar larger er than U this tha others and seem serm to have ha sustained an carl early cross with the tue famous Black Spanish When fully grown gron rown males weigh 8 S to 9 pounds females I 6 to 7 pounds Tho The fowls arc large with broad brond low low- set low et bodies that are arf i rectangular lar lal In shape possessing a long deep keel and short tc logs legs s Their skin kin and I flesh are white and the tho le legs and toes toe pinkish white The male Is H JJ light hight ht straw colored w In I Ineck neck hackle wing whirr bows boon and saddle with a A. black stripe extending down each feather of or the first and last fast sections sec ec- named Tho breast bod body tall tail talland talland and wing are lustrous greenish black The female 1 is 19 Jn In general a dark gray ray laced with black with a brown shaft t I Ito tto to each cach feather excepting the breast which Is dark salmon edged ed-ed with 4 black The Dark Dorking for som s unknown i reason IB Is difficult to rear successfully In the United States Tho The Canadians Canadian appear to have hac more moro success with them |