Show from the farmers review the cochin breed given recognition in the american standard of perfection are buff white and black these four varieties have merits to recommend them to those may fancy their color their individual merit as a breed worthy as things of beauty and usefulness gentleness of disposition and the fat fast that they are heavy chort legged small winged not inclined to fly fences this recommends them as fowls easily kept in In closures where cochins are given range are systematically fed and cared for they prove gcoy inter layers of large brown shelled eggs on an aver ege not so large as a brahma egg ogg yet equally rich in nutriment when bred to the long loose feathered ty type e now in demand by the fancier they will not compare as layers with other more closely feathered breeds and varieties having bred them tor for fifteen years I 1 feel confident when I 1 make the stat ment that as winter 1 from the time they are ate fully raoul ted in december to march they will lay as many eggs as ary other breed kno n during summer they tend to get fat tat and breed lice more abundantly than moat other varieties with shorter plumage fault however can easily be renn decd by a liberal use of insect powder and clean nests cochins are not bred so extensively today to day rz s they were sume years ago the farmer in his indifferent manner of keeping chickens cannot get as many eggs from them as he can from closer feathered breeds As meat producers they do not mature as rapidly to a presentable and salable size as other breeds wh se feathering Is shorter and more moro rapidly grown the young have deeply planted pinfeathers pin feathers that at trying frying age are objectionable when well matured no meat from any fowls Is more tender or juicy than that of the cochins their ex ass of feather ing on legs and toes make them objectionable as a farmers fowl if however kept on grass lawn nothing shows up more conspicuously than a uniform flock of cochins the buff variety baa has been popular for many years those who once breed them 0 as 08 8 a rule find much to say in their praise the partridge variety with its rich mahogany broa brown n every feather laced with a double or triple penciling of black Is admired by all who have ever seen a truly superior men inen the male with his solid black breist brest rich red lacing of neck nea hackeit around a greenish black stripe the same color on back Is very attractive in appearance then their massiveness and carriage Is always majestic of the black and white cochins there are not an as many superior specimens bred or shown crossing cochins with Plym plymouth or Wyan dottes produces a vry rapidly growing chick it also causes an increase in egg production but their character for form and beauty of plumage is lost when again nut cross such become mongrel undesirable and indifferent layers D T morgan county illinois roka hawn fowl yokohama owls are noted for the immense length of the tail tall and hackle AT r 01 01 y al 4 JT f feathers another variety said to be superior in these points is called phoenix fowl the furj or phoenix fowl Is one of the myths of the jap anese religion and Is 1 often seen in japanese pictures it Is thought the yokohama fowls are like those after seen in the paintings hence the name phoenix Is applied to the brizee the tails of these fowls average about a yard in length and their color colom and general appearance are those of the games the man who makes butter whether I 1 11 i the creamery or on the farm need to be a student he ile needs to be en ter to aba extent of learning from othia all things possible then are many things that he wll will have to learn in the creamery or dairy boorn irom experience but the iese 1 of this knowledge the better buch such lesson are always expensive eapen |