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raised their chicks, laid and hatched again, and the 

 second litter of chicks had the Houdan marks. There 

 was no Houdan blood in the Light Brahma hens, 

 neither was there any other cock with the hens from 

 the time he got the Dark Brahma cock." l 



Mr. A. W. Frizzell, of Baltimore County, Mary- 

 land, makes the following statement : " I once pur- 

 chased a trio of pure-bred Dark Brahma fowls from a 

 breeder of no small note, and a trustworthy man (I 

 speak from experience, for I was once employed by 

 this gentleman, and do know him to be trustworthy), 

 which fowls had taken the first premium at the Car- 

 roll County (Kentucky) Fair in 1871. I brought those 

 fowls home, and in the yard was also a Light Brahma 

 cock, which I did not dispose of for some time, and 

 in the mean time he was mating with these dark hens ; 

 any effects of this I thought would soon run out. 

 After a while I disposed of the light cock, and kept 

 none but the dark one, or had none nearer than a 

 mile. Nevertheless, three years afterward I see those 

 light, or half-light, chicks coming from those two 

 hens." 2 



" A Mr. Payne, in England, had two Spanish pul- 

 lets running with both a Spanish and Cochin cock. 

 After they began to lay the Cochin was removed, and 

 six weeks after the eggs were saved and set ; but the 

 chickens were feather-legged, in all other points re- 

 sembling the Spanish. 



" On another occasion the same gentleman allowed 



1 The Poultry World, as quoted in The Country Gentleman, 1873, 

 p. 476. 



a The Country Gentleman, 1877, p. 151. 





