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called "Dutch every day layers," and it is a fact that they did lay 

 every day. But the eggs are too small to go in our markets, so out- 

 side the fancy, they don't appear to have much call. They are indeed 

 beautiful in marking and coloring and are sprightly, well proportioned 

 birds. 



The Campines. There are the Golden and Silver Campines. These 

 birds hail from Belgium. They are really very little larger in appear- 

 ance than some of the Hamburgs, but they have had a big boom the 

 past two years. Personally I do not know much about them but sus- 

 pect the boom will fall in and the legitimate trade be turned back to 

 standard breeds. These birds lay a white egg of good size, but the 

 egg is about all that can be made from them. They never can be 

 called a general purpose fowl at the best. 



Buttercups. This is another new breed that is trying for honors 

 Its admirers claim for it the 300 egg a year hen. It is a small bird, 

 with a comb shaped like a buttercup,, from which it takes its name. 

 Several years ago when the name first 'became known here I sent east 

 for a setting of eggs. The claim for these birds is that they lay a 

 white egg, large in size and more of them than any other breed. Now, 

 that is saying a whole lot in a few words/ The eggs I sent for came 

 in due time, and every one of them was of a creamy color that could 

 never be stretched to white, no matter how strong the imagination 

 was. They were of fairly good size and I gave them to two good 

 hens, so that if one had any accident the other had a chance. One 

 chick hatched, and after keeping that six months, an Indian's dog got 

 it, and that was my last Buttercup. But I see some at the shows once 

 in a while and so I am satisfied. 



