. Our domestic birds; . descriptions ofthese birds now in existenceit appears that they lookedmuch like the modern PartridgePlymouth Rock. Those whobrought them out hoped thatthey would meet the populardemand, and for a short timeit seemed that this hope mightbe realized, but interest in themsoon waned, and in a few yearsthey were almost the light of the history of American breeds which didafterwards become popular we can see now that the ideas of themasses of American poultry keepers were not as strictly practi-cal as their objections to the various foreign breeds appeared toshow
. Our domestic birds; . descriptions ofthese birds now in existenceit appears that they lookedmuch like the modern PartridgePlymouth Rock. Those whobrought them out hoped thatthey would meet the populardemand, and for a short timeit seemed that this hope mightbe realized, but interest in themsoon waned, and in a few yearsthey were almost the light of the history of American breeds which didafterwards become popular we can see now that the ideas of themasses of American poultry keepers were not as strictly practi-cal as their objections to the various foreign breeds appeared toshow. The three varieties that have just been mentioned, andmany others arising from time to time, met all the expressed re-quirements of the practical poultry keeper quite as well as thosewhich subsequently caught his fancy. Indeed, as will be shownfarther on, some of the productions of this period, after beingneglected for a long time, finally became very popular. Usuallythis happened when their color became Fig. 45. White Plymouth Rock hen (Photograph from C. E. Hodgkins, Northampton, Massachusetts) FOWLS 57 The modern Barred Plymouth Rock. Shortly after our CivilWar two poultrymen in Connecticut — one a fancier, the other afarmer— engaged in a joint effort to produce the business type offowl that would meet the favor of American farmers. A maleof the old Dominique type was crossed with some Black Cochinhens. This mating produced some chickens having the color ofthe sire, but larger and more robust. Another and more skillfulfancier saw thesechickens and per-suaded the farmerto sell him a few ofthe best. A fewyears later, when,by careful breedingand selection, hehad fixed the typeand had specimensenough to supplyeggs to other fan-ciers, he took someof his new breed to ashow at Worcester,Massachusetts. Upto this time he hadnot thought of a name for them, but as people who saw themwould want to know what they were called, a name was nownecessary. It occurred to th
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