Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — BUFF COCHIN IS VERY GOOD BACK YARD FOWL TO RAISE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BUFF COCHIN IS VERY GOOD BACK YARD FOWL TO RAISE

There Is no bird on the lists of the pure-bred so easily bred up to standard perfection as the Buff Cochin. The Buff Cochin is the fancier’s fowl of all fowls. For the utility standard, a» in the fancier’s standard, no fowl Is more easily handled for what you want it to do. It Is your own mismanagement If your flocks of Buff Cochins do not come up to a large yearly record of eggs, both winter and summer, and we who have raised the Buff Cochin know how grossly must the flock be neglected for them to go so much as a half pound beIQW the standard set for them. The Buff Cochin is the Ideal back-lot fowl. It bears confinement better than any one other breed. A low fence- will keep It safe at home. It is an old breed, and now well bred into an easy, lazy life. It never frets to get out and explore the world, as does a Leghorn, Rhode. Island Red,

Plymouth Rock and most others. In selecting your breeding stock of Buff Cochins, select always your largest, best shaped hens. It is in the size ot the, mothers that you must expect large-sized progeny more than In the father. In selecting males to keep over in this line select not your tallest, heaviest males, but those short and blocky and very broad in the back. It is these that insure you strength in the progeny.

A Handsome Breed.