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THE ASIATICS. 



Sid Conger, Indiana, breeder of Buff and Partridge 

 Cochins: "The female should have one more point on comb, 

 and comb should not be so wide between the serrations; they 

 are hollowed out too much, not cut V-shaped enough. She 

 should hold her head up a little more, making it higher than 

 her back." 



Sam S. Sherman, proprietor Banner Poultry Yards, 

 Iowa, breeder of Partridge Cochins: See page forty-six. 

 Mr. Sherman believes in more chicken, less feathers. 



0. L. McCord, Illinois, breeder of Buff Cochins': Finds 

 no fault with this cut. 



Dr. A. Gaiser, Nebraska, breeder of Buff Cochins: "The 

 female Cochin profile is before me, and if she were a little 

 fuller in the breast I should call her about perfect. I like 

 a very full breast in a Cochin.'' 



F. B. Donisthorpe, Nebraska, breeder of Buff Cochins: 

 "As to the female, my criticism in the first place would be, 

 breast not low enough. Breast should be at least five- 

 eighths of an inch lower, and I dislike the division as it ap- 

 pears between the foot and hock feathering. The leg feath- 

 ering is hardly full enough. The tail just suits me, it does 

 not droop like some, neither is it erect like others. I wish 

 we could have had color given, then there might have been 

 more room for criticism, but I would say candidly, as a Buff 

 Cochin breeder, if I could raise all my birds as good as the 

 proofs received, I should be perfectly satisfied." 



J. A. Ayers, Missouri, breeder of Buff and Partridge 

 Cochins: "The female I would suggest be a little deeper iit 

 body from the lowest point in back to breast just in front 

 of thighs and her hackle a shade longer. Otherwise she is 

 O..K., and would be hard to improve on." 



Dan Robertson, Illinois, breeder of Buff Cochins: "The 

 female would look better if she were fuller in lower part of 

 breast. That is about all I find bad about her." 



Julius J. Klein, Illinois, breeder of Buff Cochins: "The 

 female suits me." 



Robert M. Dale, Illinois, breeder of Buff Cochins: "Head 

 of female appears to me a little too small for size of body, 

 and beak is too large for such a small head. Otherwise to 

 me she appears good enough to win, and that is what we all 

 want. It will take a good one to etcb a better female than 

 the one now before me." 



George Clough, Illinois, breeder of Buff Cochins: "I 

 am well satisfied with the shape of the female. I can find 

 no fault with it." 



B. Dunstan, Mississippi, breeder of Buff and Partridge 

 Cochins: "I have received Mr. Sewell's drawing of Buff 

 Cochin female. Would say that I think comb too small and 

 it conforms a little too closely to shape of head. Beak not 

 curved enough and rather too masculine in appearance. 

 Whole head and neck set too far back. The live specimens 

 I have seen and admired have a more slanting, stooping 

 forward shape, and if a perpendicular line were dra .vn, com- 

 mencing at back of neck, it would strike the front part of 

 thigh and toe feathers, while this drawing shows a line from 

 eye would touch front feathers of thigh and toe, consequent- 

 ly the breast does not show either full or low enough. The 

 fluff and back parts would pass as Standard, but I am in- 

 clined to think the cushion rises too suddenly and is slightly 

 overdone in size." 



E. T. Blood, manager Crescent Farm, Ohio, breeder of 

 Buff Cochins: "Female, head just a little bit small. Breast 

 carried a trifle high, not showing prominent enough in pro- 

 portion to fluff and cushion." 



I. V. Hardy, Kansas, breeder of Buff Cochins: "With 

 the female it strikes me that her cushion rises a trifle too 

 abruptly, and that she would look better if the lower part of 

 breast were a trifle fuller." 



J. H. Lewis, manager for Thomas and F. M. Sankey, 

 breeder of Buff Cochins: "Female cushion rises too ab- 

 ruptly and runs too high, making a hump on back. I like a 

 full cushion without so much hump. Point of tail too low. 

 Breast a trifle low, otherwise she suits me." 



Frank W. Breed, California, judge: "It is difficult to 

 get a correct idea of this female's shape, owing to the poise 

 caught by the artist in illustrating his ideal. As here pre- 

 sented, the bird was caught in the act of stepping down and 

 off some object, thus throwing her weight on the extended 

 foot and consequently forcing her whole contour out of sym- 

 metry. Did she stand so as to give us a square side view 

 her neck would not be strong enough in arch and breast 

 would lack a trifle in depth. If main tail had more of a 

 tendency to point downward a rounded appearance would 

 be given to her cushion, thus adding to her beauty." 



