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from the Asiatic, so did the brown egg. All our prominent 

 American-made breeds and many prominent European 

 breeds have a mixture of Cochin blood. They are all tainted. 

 Like the bee that stings and pays the penalty with its own 

 life, the Cochin has suffered annihilation. 



What the practical effect has been of the amalgamation 

 of the two races, the yellow and the white, it would be diffi- 



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cult to say; but there will be few who will now take the 

 stand that the poultry industry was badly stung by the 

 Asiatics. As the case now stands, the Cochin blood is found 

 in a great many breeds that excell the present-day Cochin 

 in practical qualities. The extinction of the Cochin as a 

 practical breed was due not so much to any glaring demerits 

 of the fowl, but rather to a system of breeding for fancy 

 feathering which made it impossible to maintain in the breed 

 whatever useful qualities it may have possessed. The com- 

 paratively little emphasis placed on meat qualities by poul- 



