Excerpt from The Farm-Poultry, Vol. 19: October, 1908Will anyone seriously maintain that such descriptions are intended to portray typical differences in the shapes of the beaks of fowls of different breeds?But these are superficial points, someone may say. We don't agree with that. Both the shape of the beak and the appearance of the eye are clear indications of constitution and condition. But admitting that such points as have been listed are in themselves of no mate rial value - at least to the consumer of table poultry - let us take the descriptions of the most important section the breast: The Plymouth Rock has a broad, moderately deep, full, well rounded breast, The Wyandotte, a broad, deep, round breast, with low set keel. (the glossary does not define keel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.