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 . pter, thereis little question that one of the components of the Ply-mouth Rock was the Black Java fowl; and as stated in thepreceding, it is equally obvious that this Black Java hasmuch in common with the Langshan, however that factbe interpreted. This darker and more typical componentin the Asiatic blood had thus a double prepotency, and itspredominance over the more Shanghai component w
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 . pter, thereis little question that one of the components of the Ply-mouth Rock was the Black Java fowl; and as stated in thepreceding, it is equally obvious that this Black Java hasmuch in common with the Langshan, however that factbe interpreted. This darker and more typical componentin the Asiatic blood had thus a double prepotency, and itspredominance over the more Shanghai component wouldbe intensified by breeding for clean instead of featheredshanks. This doubly strong element therefore rapidlyoverpowered the Minorca element, and the Orpingtonsquickly became to all intents and purposes clean-legged Langshans, taking the place of that shorter-legged, sym-metrical type once popular, but subsequently discarded bythe personal feeling of the Langshan breeders. In ad-dition to this mere tendency, however, it is within our ownpersonal knowledge that clean-legged pure Langshans,from perfectly orthodox sources, were sold to Orpingtonexhibitors, and appeared immediately in exhibition pens,. LADY WASHINGTON Black Orpinfton hen, winner of first prize at MadisonSquare Garden, New York, 1909-10, pronounced by Judge Okethe most typical Orpington in the show. Reproduced fromphotograph furnished by Black Diamond Poultry Farm. as well as being used for breeding with their stock. Thisstill further strengthened and hastened the reversion toLangshan type, which has been so pronounced that atmany shows only one class for Langshan or Orpington(or the converse) has been provided for the two index of this change has lain chiefly in the size ofthe eggs, which has somewhat lessened since the Minorcaelement lost power; and in the color of the eyes, whichwas often red while any foreign element remained, buthas now almost everywhere reverted to the Langshanbrown or black. 30
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