Excerpt from The New American Poultry Book, Containing All the Different, Varieties of Fowls: With Complete Instructions, How to Raise Poultry the Best Layers and Sitters the Best Soils on Which to Keep Them How to Feed Management of Layers and Sitters Point of Beauty Dictionary of Poultry Terms Incubation Management of the Mother Brahmas are doubtless the largest of all the varieties Of domes tic fowls; some have been known to weigh seventeen pounds, which exceeds the weight Of any other breed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.