. Our domestic birds; . Fig. 50. White Wyandotte cockerel(Photograph from W. E. Mack, Wood-stock, Vermont) FOWLS 61. Fig. 51. Siver-Penciled Wyandotte cock erel. (Photograph from James S. Wason Grand Rapids, Michigan) The Rhode Island Red. Amondeveloped in America was ared fowl which soon becamethe prevalent type in the egg-farming section of Rhode Islandand quite popular in the adjacentpart of Massachusetts. Most ofthe stock of this race was pro-duced by a continuous processof grading and crossing whichwas systematic only in that itwas the common practice to pre-serve none but the red malesaf
. Our domestic birds; . Fig. 50. White Wyandotte cockerel(Photograph from W. E. Mack, Wood-stock, Vermont) FOWLS 61. Fig. 51. Siver-Penciled Wyandotte cock erel. (Photograph from James S. Wason Grand Rapids, Michigan) The Rhode Island Red. Amondeveloped in America was ared fowl which soon becamethe prevalent type in the egg-farming section of Rhode Islandand quite popular in the adjacentpart of Massachusetts. Most ofthe stock of this race was pro-duced by a continuous processof grading and crossing whichwas systematic only in that itwas the common practice to pre-serve none but the red malesafter introducing a cross of an-other color. A few breeders inthe district bred their flocksmore carefully than others, butreally thoroughbred until after it came the Buff Wyandottes(from the same originalsource as the Buff PlymouthRocks), and after them Par-tridge Wyandottes, Silver-Penciled Wyandottes, andColumbian, or Ermine, Wy-andottes. From the threelast-named varieties camethe Plymouth Rock varietiesof the corresponding colors,the first stocks of these be-ing the single-combed speci-mens from the flocks of
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