Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . we see that have feathers with goodcenters, free from mossing! We look into pen after pen inour show room and hunt for the ideal back plumage so sel-dom found, and wonder why we make haste so slowly in thisdirection. Many have cast the breed aside simply on thisground. They say the almost impossible task of clearing theplumage has discouraged them from ever gaining the desiredquality. Have you given your best consideration to thesefacts in selecting the birds for your breeding pens, o
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . we see that have feathers with goodcenters, free from mossing! We look into pen after pen inour show room and hunt for the ideal back plumage so sel-dom found, and wonder why we make haste so slowly in thisdirection. Many have cast the breed aside simply on thisground. They say the almost impossible task of clearing theplumage has discouraged them from ever gaining the desiredquality. Have you given your best consideration to thesefacts in selecting the birds for your breeding pens, or haveyou over-looked important factors? Proper Surface Color. The so-called top color of the Silver Wyandotte maleshould be quitelike the Dark Brahma, silvery white in better not to mate at all than to use males with abrownish gray top color. For years we have struggled toclear the white centers of the back plumage of our femalesby using males with this smoky top plumage. How oftenwe hear, The color comes largely from the male, size fromthe female, and then we proceed to -clear the backs of our. ^RELIABLE l-*^ Poultry c^pyri^mt- - - SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES. By SEWELL, NOVEMBER, Weights—Cock, 8i pounds; hen, 6i pounds; cockerel, 7£ pounds; pullet, 5k —Cost of raising to maturity, 70 cents; annual cost of keeping, 80 cents; average egg yield per year, 175; average numbir of eggs to pound, 9; average constitution. They are good as foragers; can stand confinement; are fine as sitters and good as mothers. Grain and flavor of flesh^good. 34 THE WYANDOTTES. females with a male whose saddle plumage is about as blackas if smeared with paint, and then wonder the next fall howit happened. Why not this year try just one pen, or better, one maleand one female off in a corner somewhere by themselves, thefemale selected because she is the best Silver Wyandotteyou own or can obtain. Mate her to a male just as puresilvery white as a Hamburg, i
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