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classes. It is not our object in writing for this book to 

 serve the interests of any one breed or variety. What we 

 are aiming to do is to state facts for the information of 

 th« readers. Said a well-known Ohio judge and breeder to 

 us: "The Cochins are a nuisance. Those of us who breed 

 them have to import stock from England to perpetuate the 

 breed— they are such poor layers." This is an extreme view, 

 but there is an excuse for it. 



scopic brilliancies that dazzle the sight as one attempts to 

 follow their changes over the surface of the nervously mov- 

 ing, fiery hackled Iieghorn.' 



The full feathered Buff Cochin, while.being a wonderful 

 extreme in its amount and quality of feather, displays the 

 nicest harmony of blended color which poultry fanciers 

 possess. 

 _ The Cochin breed includes four varieties, the Buff,' Part- 

 ridge, White and Black. The Buff variety is the 

 most popular, the Partridge coming in second; The 

 standard weights of Cochins are as follows: Cock, 

 eleven pounds; hen, eight and on«-half piounds; 

 cockerel, nine pounds, pullet, seven pounds, except- 

 ing in Black Cochins, where the cock should weigh 

 .jn and a half pounds. ' ■ 



NEW BUFF VAEIETIsS OF STANDARD 

 BREEDS. 



They Oomprise the Buff Plymouth Bocks, the Buff 



Wyandottes and Buff Leghorns — ^Bapid 



Growth in Popularity. 



standard-bred BuS Iieghoms. 



In tiie January, 1898, number of the Eeliable Poultry 

 Journal was printed a color plate of a pair of Buff Ooohins, 

 copied from a painting by Franklane L. Sewell, the noted 

 poultry artist, who had for models two of the best Buff 

 Cochins from the yards of Messrs. Sharp Brothers, 

 breeders of prize-winning Buff Cochins. They are 

 said to be a pairof the best colored buff birds that 

 have ever been bred. This reproduction served to 

 create new friends not only for Buff Cochins, but 

 for buff ,f owls in general. Mr. Sewell, writing on 

 the subject in that number of the Journal says this • 

 in conclusion : 



"The art of producing the buff plumage of 

 fowls .has not, in the race of Cochins' specially, re- 

 ceived its reward of success at small cost, or with- 

 out many years of constant care apd thoughtful 

 breeding and selection. Those who of late years 

 here in America have undertaken the breeding of 

 the iiewer buff varieties have realzed some of the 

 dffcultes that must have worred the earler breeders J 

 of the Buff Cochn. However, with all these difficul- 

 ties with which the handlers of Buff Cochins have 

 met, I imagine .that the* soft tones of color are 

 more favorably bred in the loose, fluffy plumage of 

 the Cochin than will be obtained in some of the 

 races for which the clear buff feathering is now so 

 studiously sought. We have referred to the varying 

 lights and changeable reflections which influence 

 the apparent color or plumage on a fowl. This ds 

 charmingly so in the case of the full-feathered and 

 deep-fluffed Buff -Cochin. The slightest moVement 

 and change of pose in the bird, presents, to the 

 sensitive eye such a fascinating picture that it can 

 not be satisfied with a passing glance. These alluring mel- 

 low lights that seem to play about the soft plumage of these 

 buff beauties are to the eye restful contrasts to the kaleido- 



During the past ffew years there has been a 

 Mm craze for buff plumaged birds, and many of the 

 ■^"Y . oldest- and most level-headed fanciers have caught 

 the fevej: and have been quietly experimenting 

 with one of the varieties of buff fowls. The breed- 

 ers of Buff Cochins have undoubtedly made great 

 progress in getting the beautiful shade of buff so ' fixed 

 that . a large per cent of ■ the birds will come true, 

 but the fanciers of Buff Cochins have also bred their birds 

 with a view to forming a. ball of feathers, until the prae- 





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Copyright ' Rel ABix Incubator b^Broodlp Co Qu l 

 Standard-bred Buff Plymouth Bocks. 

 tical farmer who looks to the egg basket for 'groceries, re- 

 fuses to buy them. The presence of feathers on the legs 

 has limited their demand and doubtless led to the introduc- 



