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[Illustration: Hamburgs]

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                                  THE

                         Book of the Hamburgs,

                            A BRIEF TREATISE

                                UPON THE

                     MATING, REARING AND MANAGEMENT

                                 OF THE

                    DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF HAMBURGS.

                           BY L. FRANK BAUM.


                            HARTFORD, CONN.:
                       H. H. STODDARD, PUBLISHER.
                                 1886.

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          Copyright, 1886, by H. H. STODDARD, Hartford, Conn.

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                       The Book of the Hamburgs.


Long before what we now call “fancy fowls” were known or recognized (in
fact, long before the memory of any person now living), Hamburgs were
kept and bred to feather among the peasants of Yorkshire and Lancashire
in England, and by them exhibited at the small town and county fairs in
their neighborhood. Of course they were then known under different
names, the Blacks being called “Black Pheasant Fowls” and the Spangled
varieties “Lancashire Mooneys” and “Yorkshire Pheasants”; while such a
variety as the Penciled Hamburgs were either wholly unknown or else were
so little thought of that they have left no record of their origin, if,
indeed,