. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Juife 2, IQOS.'] Agricultural Gazette of 467 meat for the table. But for laying we prefer medium-size type, as shown in lllustnition No. 20. That there is reason to guard this variety from mal- formation, the following interview may be (juoted between the Editor of the Poultry Colunui of the Daily Telegraph and Mr. J. H. Hemsworth, who, in addition to being a successful exhibitor of this variety for thirteen years ;nid winning the Daihj Telegrapli Cup for Wyandottes, is a show fancier
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Juife 2, IQOS.'] Agricultural Gazette of 467 meat for the table. But for laying we prefer medium-size type, as shown in lllustnition No. 20. That there is reason to guard this variety from mal- formation, the following interview may be (juoted between the Editor of the Poultry Colunui of the Daily Telegraph and Mr. J. H. Hemsworth, who, in addition to being a successful exhibitor of this variety for thirteen years ;nid winning the Daihj Telegrapli Cup for Wyandottes, is a show fancier pure and simple, never having entered these egg-laying competitions. Mr. Hemsworth said :— Ten years ago we were breeding better and truer Wj'andottes—that is, they were decidedly better in type on the average than they are to-day. Of course, they were nothing like what they are now in lacing—the open lacing had not reached its present jierfection ; but we are undoubtedly sacrificing type for feather, and if this goes on the breed will go down. I must say that this has been the fault with almost every bird imported fi-om England for the past two years. Of course, we have been following England, and it is time for us to pull ourselves up. I have found that on the average the birds imported from America have been better in tyj^e—fine, l)ig, blocky birds, but without the open lacing that we want to win No. 15. Minorcas. W. T. Ely. The judges ought to pay more attention to type. (Som"^, of the winning- birds in the Poultry Club show coukl not be beaten for lacing, but they are not Wyandottes in type. If we continue to encourage these leggy, small- l)odied, hollow-chested birds, they will get further and further away from what a Wyandotte should be, and tend to the downfall of the Silver Wyan- dotte. Silver Wyandottes, like the Black Orptinglon, are selected crosses formed of the Asiatic Brahma and the Eurojjean Hamburgh, the progenitoi-s being both noted f
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