Origin of Domestic Poultry. Henry Hales furnishes this interesting paper on domestic fowls to tiie Rural New Yorker-. "Not much need be said of the ancient history of poultry; enough is well known to show that the Egyp tians, Greeks, Romans and all the an cient nations were acquainted with and kept poultry, even when their supersti tion or religion forbade the eating of them, as it is said of the ancient Britons. In early pictures of poulty, many of the peculiarities ol our modern fowls are seen both as to colors, topknots, shapes and sizes. "It is only within the last, compara tively few years that fowls have received a share of the attention that had for a longtime previously been given to the improvement of other live stock. Since then, however, careful breeders have de veloped the original sports, or variations, into what are known us distinct breeds. The great change brought about within the memory of the present generation is enough to show that much more may have been done during past ages by food, climate, local in-breeding, or selection by the caprice of man. "How oil en has the question been dis cussed concerning the plurality or singu larity of the origin of our domestic ani mals, including poultry. Some say of the stately Dorking or Bruhmn, 'ls it possi ble thai such monstrous birds can claim the same ancestry as the diminutive Han- | tain? Or, can the heavy, trousered Cochin claim the same parentage as the neat, clean, close-feathered Game, <>r as the Silky, wilh its odd covering and dark skin?' To answer this question, let us look a little further into the laws of na ture, as we observe them, livery species of birds or animals has its own peculiar voice, song, call or cry, and that distin g i shes it from all other species. There is no mingling or jumbling together of sounds. This is strikingly shown in the j feathered kingdom. The voice of every little bird is wholy its own. Among the few small birds that vi.Ml both the Amer ican Continent and Europe from tue far north, such as the Snow Hunting and Lesser lledpole, the rolling note of the ' former is precisely the same, whether heard in New.lerssy, Scotland of Siberia. "With poultry it is just the same. I have listened to the notes of fowls from India, China, Japan, Spain and Italy; j all cluck just alike to their chicks; call I them by one note; give the same notes of alarm, | rate the same, and all give the same crowning crow. Although bred apart for so many ages that no one can even guess the time when they tirst sprung from a common source, yet their notes me precisely identical, varying only with the size of the fowls—the larger the bird, the longer and more sonorous tin' crow. There are some slight variations to the rule, as some breeds are more in clined to deeper notes than others, and active breeds are more noisy than the more sedate sorts. Vet size is the eon troling rule—the larger the Asiatics are bred, the longer they crow, this, getting shorter till we come to the quick, shrill, crow of the Hantam. Some song birds have the power of imitation so as to change their songs; our canaries can be taugh other bird's notes. Their natural 'eal,' however, is always the same. This would seem to show that all poultry have the same origin, all descending from one species. If thousands of years of separa tion, all kinds of climates, food and breeding, do not change their notes, does it not seem to point to such a single ori ginal source. "Most naturalists in India settle on Gallus Bankiva as the parent of the Game fowls, and, perhaps, of all our domestic breeds, yet sutllcieut force is not given to the unerring voice in deciding this ques tion. 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At ;i Convention of School Directors, of Centre County, held tv Bellofonte, Decem ber'Jß. IsTH. pursuant to the call of 11. Meyer, Esq., County Superintendent, for the purpose of considering the propriety of faking measures to secure a uniformity of the text-books used in the schools of said county, the following action was taken, over fifty directors being present and nearly all the district in the county being represented: COPY OF MINUTES. I pon motion of C. P. Stonerod, of Snow Shoe township, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: WHEREAS:* Great expense and waste are frequently incurred by the present and eon nstatly changing variety of text-books used in the common schools of Centre eountv. there fore, he i( J'e.yilrnd. By the representative directors here in session, that a system of text-books, suitable, complete and uniform, be adopted in accordance with the laws of the State, throughout the county. Upon motion of J. C. P. Jones, the follow ing plan was adopted with hut one dissenting vote, to carry into effect the following pre amble and resolutions: First. The various publishing houses to send samples of their books to eact school board in tne county for examination and to submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr - duetory and wholesale prices, and the length of time they will guarantee to furnish them at said price. Second. No agent of any publishing house to be permitted to do any work in the county, to be either general or local agent, beyond sending his books and terms as above stated. Any house or agent violating tbi> under standing, their books to be counted ou of the contest. third. The several school boards of the county, after examination of the various books which may have been submitted, to hold a meeting at which each director shall make out a list of the books which he prefers to have adopted in the county, and se d it to Henry Meyer. Esq., County Supcrin n dent, Rebersburg, Pa., prior to* the first day of .June; I*7!*, who shall ma e several statements so sent, and the books up on the various branches having tin iglcst number of votes or preference shall be the series recommended for county uniformity. The County Superintendent, after having made the above can vans as above, to send the result of the same to each of th< papers in the county for publication. \V\ C. llkini.k. Chairman. J. C. P. .JUNKS, Secretary. TVie following is the result of the votes of the I)i rectors of Cent re comity, 1 'a.. on the uniformity of Text-books in said county, with the number of votes cast fro eaeli book, under the foregoing plan and resolutions : JiKAI >KRS. No. vote. for eacsh New (traded 74 independent 20 Apph-ton's 17 New American 12 SPELLERS. Swinton's S3 New American <i Independent 23 Applcton's 1 Patterson's Sander's I nion Itaub's 1 (jE( )(i R A PI! IES. Swinton's 100 Colton's 14 Mitchell's 1(1 independent 1 Monteith's 5 HISTORIES. Swinton's P3 lledpath's 5 Panics' Uriel' 7 Butler's 1 W at sin's 0 V R ITT EN ARITHMETIC. Robinson's Shorter Course 57 Crccnlcaf's ii Brook's Gillie's .j-j Boll's 12 Nrook's Union 3 Mew American 4 MENTAL ARITHMETIC. Millie's 7 Greenleaf's 4 ALGEBRA. Robinson's 53 Greenleaf's 1 COPY BOOKS. I Spencerian qfl Applcton's 31) Ellsworth's 10 GRAMMARS. Kerl's 72 Swinton's p Clark's Brief 15 Bullion's j Harvey's 20 (Juaekciibos' 3 Eewsmitb's 1 eangcage lessons. Kerl's Clark's 5- Harvey's I Morton's BOOK-K EEPING. Bryant A* Stratfon's 44 Eolsoni's 0 Smith's CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Townsend's.. - BUT YNY. Gray's 40 Steele's UROLOGY. Dana's 30 BRA WING. White's Industrial 4* PHYSIOLOGY. j Steele's Cutter's NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Steele's 3 I'lic attention of Directors is called to Section LXII of the School Laws, which requires every School Board in the State o adopt a series of Text-hooks every, year, during vacation, which books, and 110 others, can be used during the ensuing school year. This is intended to tix a uniform course of study for the school ot each distri<*. 1 he undersigned having been appoint ;ed a Committee to count the vote on county uniformity of Text-books in Cen tre county, respectfully report that they have carefully performed such duty ; and that the foregoing is a correct can vass of tlu; same. Samukl Fkanck, Jakkd IIAKI'kh YV. C. Hkini.k, j Committee appointed by the County Superintendent to canvass the votes Bkllkfontk- Pa., June 23, lsT'.t
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