Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — The White Cochin. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The White Cochin.

A great many persons who are familiar with the good natural points of the Cochins (Buff, Black, White and Partridge) often express astonishment at the remarkable falling off In popularity of these varieties of a noble breed. The cause is not hard to find. One glance at the accompanying Illustration will tell the story. The bird shown in the picture Is the highest development of the breeder’s art. He

Won the first prize at the New York show this year. A person with half an aye can see that a fowl so ridiculously feathered cannot by any possibility be a first class utility fowl. And there can be no question either that once upon a time—and not so very long ago either—the Cochins were among the very best of the so called “farmers’ fowls.” It is merely Another of the many examples of too much “science” in breeding.

FIRST PRIZE WHITE COCHIN COCK.