Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — The Feats of Chicken Fanciers. [ARTICLE]

The Feats of Chicken Fanciers.

The American Standard of Perfection, as drafted and copyrighted by the American Poultry Association, contains the names of 116 varieties of fowls, 115 of which are due to the development of man. God made only one—a homely, wild thing, which made its home in the jungle along with the rest of primeval creation. By intelligent breeding fanciers have produced fowls of all sizes, from the diminutive bantam to the mammoth bronze turkey; one a tiny bit of feathered vanity, weighing only a few ounces, and the other a bulky fowl weighing from forty to sixty pounds—as much as a half-grown boy. Results equally wonderful have been accomplished In color effects. There are varieties in red, black, brown and white, with nearly all possible combinations, besides buff and Andalusian blue. The fanciers have shown that they can lace, stripe, spangle or bar the feathers of their birds in any way to satisfy their individual fancy. In fact; about all they have left undone is to put their Initials on the feathers of their birds.— From the Great American .Barnyard, In Leslie's Monthly,