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by adhering to a false standard. Though the craze for heavy 

 feathering has not laid its hand heavily upon it, the eager- 

 ness to make their type entirely distinct from that of the 

 Orpington has led to the development of what Brown^ has 

 depicted as " a leggy monstrosity, stilty, often weak legged, 

 but naturally heavier in bone and smaller in body than of 

 yore." In America the type has not been developed to such 

 an extreme as in England, from which view-point -Brown 



Fig. 14 



Partridge Cochin, female (Asiatic), 



writes, but the development has assuredly not been toward 

 'the most desirable economic qualities. 



The characteristics which these breeds have in common are : 

 relatively large size, phlegmatic disposition, late maturity, 

 and feathered shanks. All three of them lay an egg that is 

 tinted a rich deep brown and are persistent setters. 



Mairs,^ in tests embracing members of the Asiatic, Ameri- 



' Races of Domestic Poultry. 

 ' Pennsylvania Bulletin No. 87 . 



