Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties . extremely large, low downbirds have not been remarkably good layers, whether their color has been black, buff or white. The females atrifle higher on legs, with good long bodies and plentyof depth, have made the producers, and this is the typethat is becoming more and more popular as time goes Buffs and the Whites are the most popular varietiesand probably always will be, and it is
Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties . extremely large, low downbirds have not been remarkably good layers, whether their color has been black, buff or white. The females atrifle higher on legs, with good long bodies and plentyof depth, have made the producers, and this is the typethat is becoming more and more popular as time goes Buffs and the Whites are the most popular varietiesand probably always will be, and it is not right to makethem suffer because they were not bred from the samesources as were the Blacks. There is no better utility fowl today than the Or-pington. There is no handsomer fowl, or a fowl that ismore fascinating for the gentleman fancier or the pains-taking breeder, and their future is absolutely safe whenbred along the conservative lines required under the newStandard. The writer predicts that their present pop-ularity is almost nothing to what they will attain as timegoes on and that the birds themselves have the intrinsicmerit to hold their place as one of the four leading breedsof ENGLISH TY-PB WHITE ORPINGTONS. 1908 CHAPTER IIIBlack Orpingtons Exhibition and Market Qualities—Mating for Size and Shape—Breeding for Color—Comments andContributions by Noted English Authorities and American Breeders J. II. Drevensledt jftg^HE Blacks being the first of the Orpingtons tonHpB arrive in the poultry world, they must beW^fmV accorded the priority claim in the chapters*W I on the different varieties of Orpingtons, re-1 gardless of their rank in popularity among P Orpington breeders. They gave the family i name to the breed and deserve the honor. When we first judged and handled Orp-ingtons some eight or nine years ago, the Blacks im-pressed us the most, being distinct in type, grand in sizeand beautiful in the color of the plumage, the latter, atleast in the bes
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