The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . e free from yellow. A certain cock birdthat won first at Boston and special for best shape and colorhad a fine evenly mottled breast. Be careful in your mat-ings: the Dark Brahma is one of the hardest birds to breedthat there is in the Standard. Never use a short backed,high tailed male, but if you have a female that is short inback, that is extra good otherwise, it is safe to mate her to a long backed male, but if you have none such to use youhad better discard her entirely. Another great trouble is with foot and toe
The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . e free from yellow. A certain cock birdthat won first at Boston and special for best shape and colorhad a fine evenly mottled breast. Be careful in your mat-ings: the Dark Brahma is one of the hardest birds to breedthat there is in the Standard. Never use a short backed,high tailed male, but if you have a female that is short inback, that is extra good otherwise, it is safe to mate her to a long backed male, but if you have none such to use youhad better discard her entirely. Another great trouble is with foot and toe is hard to retain and I know of only one way to keepthe feet and legs properly feathered, which is by using,occasionally, vulture hocked hens and) pullets, never sacri-ficing an extra nice female because of this defect; but neveruse a vultured male, unless for some special purpose andthen only as a last resort. It is not advisable to use a malewith a poor comb, my experience having proven that themale exerts far the greater influence upon the combs of the. First Prize Dark Brahma Hen at Ontario. 1«M. Exhibited by L. C. Sage. chicks. As in other breeds, we must look to the female forsize and we have always found it advisable to use femalesof large size and males of medium size in preference to largemales and hens of medium size or smaller. That this meritorious variety is not more widely bred isdue principally to ignorance of its practical qualities. Itsbeauty is universally admitted and any one securing stockfrom an up-to-date strain and giving them the intelligentattention necessary to achieve success with any variety willhave no cause to look further for an all purpose fowl. The future of the variety is in the hands of its breedersand they should not fail to give it the prominence it de-serves. The quality is there, but it needs to be made known. This is the advice of a breeder who has bred this fineAsiatic variety for twenty-five years. C. A. BALLOU.
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