. The Eastern poultryman . Oriiiiigtotis were liie Hamhurirs, Dor- kings, and Buff Cochins. Thny tooi< their great laying prochvilies from tiie Hamburgs, tiieir meaty (jnaiities from the Dorking and iheir size and color from the Buff Cochin. In England they came at once into great popularitv Cook says of them : " \\'e have noticed when visitors have been looking aroimd our pens, and one after another of the 40 or 50 varieties of fowls are gone over, they, almost all of them â quite 17 out of 20âchoose out Ruff Orpingtons, whetlier they are English or foreign ; Their fame
. The Eastern poultryman . Oriiiiigtotis were liie Hamhurirs, Dor- kings, and Buff Cochins. Thny tooi< their great laying prochvilies from tiie Hamburgs, tiieir meaty (jnaiities from the Dorking and iheir size and color from the Buff Cochin. In England they came at once into great popularitv Cook says of them : " \\'e have noticed when visitors have been looking aroimd our pens, and one after another of the 40 or 50 varieties of fowls are gone over, they, almost all of them â quite 17 out of 20âchoose out Ruff Orpingtons, whetlier they are English or foreign ; Their fame soon soared to the ends of the earth, and, mong others, some American breeders determined to import some and give tltem a trial. I'he first importation came over the ocean in P'ebruary, 189S, and was fol- lowed by others in NIarch and April of the same year. They stood the long voyage well and soon be^an to shell out the eggs ; and their wonderful production was an eye-openei to thtir importers. The writer made two importations this winter and they were on the way for two weeks ; but so well were they cared for while on the way, and so great layers were they, that a number of pullels among them laid the day after they ar- rived and have continued to lay steadily ever since. Such inmiense laying finali- ties would please anyone- and make him a friend ol this grand and profitable fowl. In England, as in Ameri -a. there were jilenty of breeders to predict failure when the Orpingtons were brought out. They said they wolud never bt come popular, I had breeders tell me three years ago, when I exhibited at Detroit the first Orp- ingtons in .Michigan, than they would never become popular. Others have told me the same thing many times since. Thev said they were too much like the Buff Rocks ; that their white legs would prejudice dealers aj^ainst them ; that we had no use for white legs in America, etc., etc. liut these croakers knew nothing of the merits that were bundled u
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