The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . r, exclaimed; They are a vertitable oblongband-box on legs, a quaint expression, but to the men andwomen of his time it was a forceful one, telling of the equalbreast and posterior weight, with their clinging plumage,the hocks showing in profile below the body line, with the THE STANDARD MALE AND FEMALEA cock in his second year should weigh twelve poundsor more in exhibition condition. A cockerel in his aduHcoat should weigh ten pounds, a hen nine and a half or moreand a pullet eight pounds. The birds should bf. suffi
The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . r, exclaimed; They are a vertitable oblongband-box on legs, a quaint expression, but to the men andwomen of his time it was a forceful one, telling of the equalbreast and posterior weight, with their clinging plumage,the hocks showing in profile below the body line, with the THE STANDARD MALE AND FEMALEA cock in his second year should weigh twelve poundsor more in exhibition condition. A cockerel in his aduHcoat should weigh ten pounds, a hen nine and a half or moreand a pullet eight pounds. The birds should bf. sufficientlyfat to have their plumage show its best sheen when on exhi-bition. During the breeding season the birds should be al-lowed to fall one pound under these weights, which will putthem in their best working form. Weight is valued at tenpoints on the score card and is as much a part of the stand-ards demand of excellence as any other section, and a judgein scoring must cut two points for every pound that a birdlacks. The judging of fowls is no longer confined to exhibi-. Copyrightreliable Poultry j°umwi Publishing cp.— i^OS — Ideal Light Brahma Male and Female rihape. Advocated by I. K, 1-elch. thigh plumage curling closely and smoothly about the hockjoint In 1876, there appeared in the American Poultry Exhi-bition in New York City, a Light Brahma cock which wasnamed Autocrat. It was a bird that was found in Fultonmarket and no trace was ever discovered of its varied little from the bird from the Chamberlain strainknown as the Imperial 300, but afterwards called the Felchstrain. These two males, Autocrat and Imperial 300,are the founders of the two strains of Light Brahmas. theAutocrat and the Felch, whose progeny are to be found inevery state in the Union. The popularity of the LightBrahma has declined occasionally, when some new varietyhas been boomed and amateurs have been tempted to trythem, but each time the Light Brahma has regained its holdand has e
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