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EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH TYPES OP LANGSHANS, ORPINGTONS AND COCHINS. 



A pictorial record of thirty-flve years at intervals of seven years. Nos. 1, 7, and 13 show the original types, and 6 12, 

 and 18 the up-to-date ideal. These illustrations ■R"ere drawn by the eminent English artist, J. W. Ludlow, and appeared in 

 connection with his explanatory article in the Feathered World, England, September 2, 1910. "We are indebted to the latter 

 excellent poultry journal for the reprints of both illustrations and the article.— Editor. 



Brothers, Bloomer, Hallam and Litting, Galway, Fawkes, 

 Lewis, and many other enthusiasts. In fact, there has 

 been a lot of money spent on Orpingtons, and although 

 Blacks are now stationary, they are ready to rise again 

 when the Buff craze has somewhat subsided, and when 

 Whites have advanced a bit. 



By-the-bye, Blacks being the safest occasional cross 

 for the produce of bulky Whites it will become necessary 

 to carefully examine and guard against grizzly under- 

 fiuflE in all and any of the black progeny thus produced. 

 An occasional dip is good, over-much leads to spoil the 

 glossy splendor and produce a dull black plumage. In 

 fact, the advantage is to the Whites only to the detri- 

 ment of the Blacks thus crossed. I name this because I 

 know that, in the effort to get size, bulk, and character 



in Whites, some of the biggest Blacks have been and are 

 being used for the purpose. 



Returning, however, to the kernel of the nut — viz., 

 the alliance, progress and severance of these three sorts — 

 those of the old brigade, like myself, who remember the 

 first imported Cochins, and thirty-five years later the 

 first draft of Langshans, and still later the making of 

 Black Orpingtons, may have solved the problem of 

 descent for themselves, and therefore probably will regard 

 these notes as unnecessary, but in the interval there has 

 sprung up a new generation of fanciers, who, less ex- 

 perienced, would be justified in doubting the alliance 

 of these three up-to-dates, Nos. 6, 12 and 18, which 

 have now become so dissimilar in structural points a? 

 to baffle those of limited experience as to their pedigree. 



