American poultry world . Figure I. Silver Wyandotte Pullet. strength of color of hackleand saddle feathers. itwas a good class of cock-erels our comments, on thesame in the AmericanFancier reading as fol-lows: The cockerels werea fine lot, the winners be-ing remarkable not onlyfor their silvery surfacecolor on hackles and sad-dles but for the intenselyblack stripe in same. * * *In breast plumage there ischance for fact, some that failedto get a place were farbetter in this that is often the casetoday. Fine breast andbody lacing of the feathers with nicely laced wingb


American poultry world . Figure I. Silver Wyandotte Pullet. strength of color of hackleand saddle feathers. itwas a good class of cock-erels our comments, on thesame in the AmericanFancier reading as fol-lows: The cockerels werea fine lot, the winners be-ing remarkable not onlyfor their silvery surfacecolor on hackles and sad-dles but for the intenselyblack stripe in same. * * *In breast plumage there ischance for fact, some that failedto get a place were farbetter in this that is often the casetoday. Fine breast andbody lacing of the feathers with nicely laced wingbars First Prize W< rlds Fair, too often accompanied by washed out hackle and saddle feathers. But thecockerels at New York, as a rule proved a shapely lotalbeit the illustration of the winner makes him show too-much tail and lack of fullness in breast. But he stands-up like a Wyandotte and does not drop down like a dumpyor creeper. In 18 95 when the demand for large white centers be-came a pardonable craze, wo


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