SPECIAL POULTRY EDITION
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Vol. XIX.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1910.
No. 37.
for egg producers, leg-
horns, min0rcas spamsh
THE MOST POPULAR BREED IN THIS ICOUNTRY
IS THE OLD RELIABLE PLYMOUTH ROCK
By Theodore 1^. Jajjer
dence, R. I., and Mr. Wilson showed
liis first birds at the World's fair in
1893.
White Plymouth Rocks.
The White Plymouth Rocks are
sports from the Barred. As it is well
known, all black fowls will at times
produce some partly white or all white
birds, so-called Albinos, and as one of
the ancestors of this breed was a black
fowl, it was nothing remarkable, that
FOR MARKtT BiRDS, BRAH-
MAS, COCHINS, LANGSHANGS
We Americans have a
right to be proud of our
Plymouth Rocks; they
axe our first produced and
leading breed, allow unlim-
ited headwav to the fan-
cier aiming at beauty
points, satisfy the keeper
that wants eggs and meat
and bring us credit from
every foreign shore and
nation where ever they
have taken a foothold. If
we are after dollars and
cents to be made out of
eggs and meat, we are
enamored with them, be-
cause they "make good,"
to use a popular saying,
and again, if we desire to
win "fame and glory in
the show room, we may
pin our faith to the Rocks
in f,ullest confidence
knowing that it will take
brains as well as persis-
tence careful and intelli-
gent work early and late
to be on top with birds
that have the narrow, well
(defined barring al. over.
If one breeds any variety
of Plymouth Rocks, he
should not have the hankering after
something better. The "impossible'
should not be regarded in our list of
wishes
The first fowls that bore the name
Plymouth Rooks were originated in
1847 by crossing Cochins, Dorkings
ajid Malays. These had very little
resemblance to the fowls originated
later by D. A. Upham )and Joseph
Spaulding, of Putnam. Connecticut,
and first shown to the public at Wor-
cester, Mass. All the fowls as now
bred are the progeny of the latter, be-
ing produced by the cross of a single-
combed Dominique male upon a bl.ick
Asiatic hen, at that time called he
Java, but in reality a black Cochin.
There were all of the barred vari ty,
in fact, the name Plymouth Rock stood
for the barred variety alone, until the
creation of the Buffs, and the Whites
made the word "Barred" necessan to
distinguish the parent color.
The Buff Rocks.
The Buff Plymouth Rocks were pro-
duced at about the same time by a Mr.
J. D. Wilson, of Worcester, N. Y., who,
later on, sold his entire stock to the
Exmoor Farms, of Lebanon Pa., and
Messrs. R. G. Buffington and N. R.
Aldrich of Fall River, Mass The so
well advertised Nugget strain s an
outcrop of the Wilson strain. It is .i i<1
that light colored Rhode Island R ds
crossed on White Plymouth Rocks m-l
in some instances Rhod° Island TJeds,
mainly produced from Plymouth Rock
blood, created the Buffs through <• i-
ination of undesirables. Th'1 Fall
River strain was first shown at Provi-
w M
Plymouth Rocks are an American production and seem especially suited
to our manner of growing poultry. They possess almost all the good qualities
and have very few faults or defects. The very fact of their being raised
In such numbers is sufficient proof of their popularity.
many breeders everywhere reported
the producing of white or spotted
chicks. One very peculiar feature of
the Whites is their remarkable ten-
dency to hold the true Rock shape, a
thing generally not the case with
sports. O. F. Frost, of Monmouth,
Me., showed during the seventies his
first Waite Rocks, which he had
hatched from Barred Rock eggs. I^ater
investigation developed the
fact, that as an additional
claim to the white chicks'
appearance, a White Birm-
ingham rooster was un-
earthed that had sired
many of the Barred Rocks
from two prominent
strains.
Other Rock Varieties.
The above are our Stan-
dard varieties of the ^reat
Plymouth Rock family and
to this have been added
the silver Pencilled Ply-
mouth Rocks, the Par-
tridge Plymouth Rocks
and the Columbian Ply-
mouth Rocks.
Theiv is a grave doubt if
any of the latter are pro-
duced from Plymouth
Rocks and the Columbian
Plymouth Rocks,
investigation developed the fact, that
as an additional claim to the white
chicks' appearance, a White Birming-
ham rooster was unearthed that had
sired many of the Barred Rocks from
two prominent strains.
Other Rock Varieties.
The above are our Standard varie-
ties of the great Plymouth Rock fami-
ly and to this have been added the
Silver Pencilled Plymouth Rocks, the
Partridge Plymouth Rocks and the
Columbian Plymouth Rocks.
There is a grave doubt if any of the
latter are produced from Plymouth
Rock blood either in part or whole,
and the claim of many of its enemies
that they are nothing but overgrown
and straight-backed single combed
Wyandottes, seems to have some foun-
dation. It is a fact for instance, that
the Silver Pencilled Wyandottes
brought at onoe the Silver Pencilled
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