LIGHT BRAHMA IDEALS. 



The New England Light Brahma Club is Content With Nothing Short of the Best— Mr. Franklane L 

 Sewell Engaged to Portray the Ideals of the Members— History of These Ideals. 



By G. W. Cbomack. 



(From the Reliable Poultry Journal.) 



DT WAS a long time after the idea of securing ideal illus- 

 trations of Light Brahmas was first mentioned by 

 members of the New England Light Brahma Club that 

 an attempt was made to embody their various preferences 



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Light Brahma Male adopted as the Ideal of the New England Light Brahma Club 

 A Sewell Production Based upon the Ideals of the Members. 



in. composite ideals. There were many men of many minds, 

 and most of them were very decided in their opinions. Their 

 ideas of shape had taken years to formulate, and were not 

 to be lightly forsaken. After a good deal of talk (everybody 

 admitted the necessity of the New England Light Brahma 

 Club having an ideal male and female), it was decided to 

 procure cuts. A committee was appointed and negotiations 



were commenced with an artist with a view to getting draw- 

 ings submitted, and then, having criticised and perfected 

 them, to order composite illustrations which should repre- 

 sent the club's ideal. "Well, the drawings were submitted, 



and no fowl was ever 

 plucked more quickly or 

 more mercilessly than 

 were those unfortunates. 

 In short, the subject of se- 

 curing an ideal male and 

 female was for a time 

 abandoned. 



As the years flew by 

 there were continual calls 

 for the club catalogue, and 

 finally at the annual meet- 

 ing in April, 1900, the sec- 

 retary stated he had sent 

 in answers to calls for 

 catalogues, old premium 

 lists, and that the supply 

 of those was nearly ex- 

 hausted. It seemed, there- 

 fore, that a catalogue 

 should be prepared. This 

 question having been set- 

 tled in the affirmative, 

 "ideal cuts" were again 

 suggested^-they must be 

 had to place in the pro- 

 posed catalogue. This time 

 the secretary was instruct- 

 ed to correspond with Mr. 

 Sewell and inform him as 

 nearly as possible what 

 would be expected in 

 drawings of ideal male and 

 and female Light Brah- 

 mas. 

 The drawings arrived. 

 The male as published 

 is identical with that sub- 

 mitted by Mr. Sewell, 

 while the female has been 

 changed several times. 



All of this took months 



to do and it was January, 



1902, before the cuts were 



published in the catalogs 



It is not to be supposed that they represent everything that 



every member wishes to see in Light Brahmas, but every 



one believes them to be the nearest possible approach to the 



ideals of the members generally, and we hazard nothing in 



saying that they are by all odds the finest representations of 



ideal Light Brahmas in existence. 



G. W. CROMACK. 



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