Abstract
WITH reference to my previous letter on this subject, I should like to draw the attention of the readers of NATURE to a very interesting paper in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (vol. xxvii. 5900). The writer, Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain, who has obtained his information from a Japanese fancier, Mr. Kitagawa Ushimatsu, and has also examined the birds himself, states that “there is absolutely no artificial method of making the feathers grow. All is done by selection. Any failure to obtain good results must proceed from having a bad hen, that is, one not of the true breed, and it is in this point that buyers are liable to be deceived. Also one must know how to treat the birds.”
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