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hardiness and good laying and breeding qualities. A friend of ours who has 

 had considerable experience with the Asiatic breeds of fowls, considers the 

 Buff Cochins better adapted to our severe and changeable climate than either 

 the Brahma, Chittagoug or Shanghae. He avers that they (the Cochins) 



BUFF COCHIN COCK. 



require less care, and pay for their feed in extra amount of flesh, and rich- 

 ness, and quality of eggs. His hens have weighed ten pounds each, and th<* 

 cock fifteen pounds, and stands over two feet in hight. He allows his hens 

 to have but one good setting a year, and breaks up this propensity in about 

 two or three days by removing them to a coop with a bottom made of rollers 



