The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . is exactly the mental picture I havealways formed of ideal Cochin shape, though I must confessI can not get my hens to see it just that way. F. B. Donisthorpe, Nebraska, breeder of Buff Cochins:I do not wish to criticise too severely friend Sewell, for Iam a lover of his work, but I cannot help thinking that insketching this male he had not fully obliterated from hismind the old English Shanghai that we used to raise twen-ty-five or thirty years ago. I apply this simply and solelyto the height of the bird. I think tha
The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . is exactly the mental picture I havealways formed of ideal Cochin shape, though I must confessI can not get my hens to see it just that way. F. B. Donisthorpe, Nebraska, breeder of Buff Cochins:I do not wish to criticise too severely friend Sewell, for Iam a lover of his work, but I cannot help thinking that insketching this male he had not fully obliterated from hismind the old English Shanghai that we used to raise twen-ty-five or thirty years ago. I apply this simply and solelyto the height of the bird. I think that if about an inchwere taken off from the height we should have a betterCochin shape. Of course, to-day we are breeding for ablocky bird. We want to get, if possible, a ball of feath-ers. I admire very much, indeed, the tail of the male, neithertoo high nor too low. I have been trying for the last twoyears to have my males so that a horizontal line could bedrawn from top of head to tip of tail. I would furthermorecriticise in a slight degree the comb of the male. I think. COCHIN MALE SHAPE-By Sewell. Compns,n0 the Best Points of Severs, Live Models. Drawn by Franklane L. SewelI fQr „ to Prominent Judges and Breeders for Criticism Based Upon sTan the Reliable Poultry Journal anddard Requirements.
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