Standard - bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff, black and partridge .. . straight, stout, of mediumlength and set well apart—the width of your hand. Plumage of present herewith two half-tone engravings, show-ing photographic reproductions of actual feathers pluckedfrom two exhibition Golden Wyandotte males, prize winners Feather No. 1 on this plate, a hackle feather, showswhat I call a laced feather, somewhat 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 la
Standard - bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff, black and partridge .. . straight, stout, of mediumlength and set well apart—the width of your hand. Plumage of present herewith two half-tone engravings, show-ing photographic reproductions of actual feathers pluckedfrom two exhibition Golden Wyandotte males, prize winners Feather No. 1 on this plate, a hackle feather, showswhat I call a laced feather, somewhat 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 ofPerfection should be changed in this section so as to allow. Plate II—Showing Photographic Reproduction of Feathers Plucked from a 2-Year-Oid Golden Wyandotte G)ck. at the great New York show. The feathers demonstratewhat has been produced in this variety on single are not presented as perfect feathers, though someof them are practically so. They were reduced in size abouttwo-fifths by the artist, and while the engravings of feath-ers are the best we have seen to date, they do not do theoriginals 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 in theoriginals, but they will do very well in illustrating ourmeaning and in showing the progress that has been made. Plate I shows eleven feathers from a Golden Wyandottecock
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