Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . alf-tone engravings,showing photographic reproductions of actual feathersplucked from two exhibition Golden Wyandotte males, prize lacing of these feathers, also the bright clearness of the out-side lacing of the hackle, back and saddle feathers. Notealso the perfect evenness of the under-color of all thesefeathers. Feather No. 1 on this plate, a hackle feather, showswhat I call a laced feather, something like that of the inside center follows evenly on either side of the s
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . alf-tone engravings,showing photographic reproductions of actual feathersplucked from two exhibition Golden Wyandotte males, prize lacing of these feathers, also the bright clearness of the out-side lacing of the hackle, back and saddle feathers. Notealso the perfect evenness of the under-color of all thesefeathers. Feather No. 1 on this plate, a hackle feather, showswhat I call a laced feather, something like that of the inside center follows evenly on either side of the shaftand stops at the right place, that is, does not extend throughthe black lacing. This gives us a far more beautiful featherthan the standard description (see Plate II) and everybreeder of experience knows that he cannot produce thelarge, open centers on the females by using males of thestyle of neck hackle shown on Plate II. Laced Wyandottes,with Golden and Silver, have a tendency toward the lacedneck, and to-day some strains produce a neck plumagenearer like Plate I than like Plate II. The Standard of. Plate II—Showing Photographic Reproduction of Feathers Plucked from a 2-Year-Old Golden Wyandotte Cock. winners at the great New York show. The feathers demon-strate what has been produced in this variety on single spec-imens. They are not presented as perfect feathers, thoughsome of them are practically so. They were reduced in sizeabout two-fifths by the artist, and while the engravings offeathers are the best we have seen to date, they do not dothe originals full justice. A lustrous, greenish black and asoft golden bay make a combination that is extremely diffi-cult to photograph, and still harder to represent in plainblack and white. In these feather plates the gold centersand lacing do not show up as clear cut and even as inthe originals, but they will do very well in illustrat-ing our meaning and in showing the progress that hasbeen made. Plate I shows eleven feathers
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