Lexicographical Neighbors of Pekins
Literary usage of Pekins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Poultry: A Popular Sketch of Domestic Fowls for the Farmer and Amateur by George Catchpole Watson (1919)
"White Pekin duck, young (one-ninth size). and prolific than the pekins.
Some practical duck raisers sometimes introduce an Aylesbury cross on their Pekin ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"01 new and distinctive breed like pekins is -л great gain. f ... It cannot, we
think, be more th.ni five years sm- first heard of pekins. then shown alone ..."
3. Poultry-craft: A Text-book for Poultry Keepers by John Henry Robinson (1899)
"A result of the acknowledged superiority of the pekins for the purposes of the
duck farmer, has been to throw other varieties — no matter how many good ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1891)
"The pekins, which are the best layers of the duck family, were of large size and
extra good quality, and are more expensively bred than any other. ..."
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