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VOLUME XXX.— No. 2. 
JSTEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1871. 
NEW SERIES— No. 289. 
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WHITE AND PARTRIDGE COCHINS AT THE N. Y. STATE POULTRY FAIR— 
The display of Cochins was remarkably fine 
at the late show of the "N. Y. S. P. S.," and 
in no class was there closer competition than 
i:i Partridge Cochins. The magnificent trio 
which received the first prize, a pair of which 
is shown above, belong to Mr. Geo. P. Champ- 
ney, of Taunton, Mass. The White ones won 
their honors with less competition, but there 
was a worthy show. We think we recognize 
the winning trio above represented as having 
been exhibited last year, when they lost the 
award they have now won, on account of exhib- 
iting, in a sprinkling of pale buff feathers, traces 
of their origin from, or remote crossing with, 
the Buffs. Those feathers probably disappeared 
in the last moult, and their owner, Mr. J. J. 
Berry, of Hackensack, N. J., has a magnifi- 
cent-looking trio of fowls. The Cochins, as a 
class, deserve as they receive, the assiduous at- 
tention of Fanciers. We hardly value them as 
highly as the Brahmas for useful qualities, yet 
so nearly are the two breeds matched in this 
regard, that the highest authorities differ in 
their opinions of their relative merits. They 
are unsurpassed as winter layers, their great 
cushions of fluffy plumage protecting them 
Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
from the cold. They are excellent mothers. 
The young grow rapidly, and early attain 
marketable and large size, though early matu- 
rity can hardly be asserted of them. They grow 
to the very largest size ever attained by fowls, 
and present a variety and beauty of plumage 
which make them attractive as fanciers' breeds. 
We have the Buff, which is probably the parent 
breed, the Partridge, the Grouse, like the Part- 
ridge, but of less beautifully or distinctly 
marked plumage, the White and the Black; 
the last being the least interesting, and usually 
not breeding very true to color and points. 
