. Fanciers' journal and land & water . PodLJF^Y ^° PlQEONS. THE PLYMOUTH ROCK. SHAPE. Each of the leading breeds of fowls hag its distinctive one knows what is meant by the Brahma shape, the Co-chin shape, the Leghorn shape, the Hamburg shape, the Dorking shape, etc. The shape and symmetery of each of thesebreeds are as well known and distinctive as their colors. Thisshould also be the case with the Plymouth Rock, but the term Plymouth Rock Shape would not convey a very definite would suggest the Brahma shape to one man, to another theCochin shape, and to a third, something
. Fanciers' journal and land & water . PodLJF^Y ^° PlQEONS. THE PLYMOUTH ROCK. SHAPE. Each of the leading breeds of fowls hag its distinctive one knows what is meant by the Brahma shape, the Co-chin shape, the Leghorn shape, the Hamburg shape, the Dorking shape, etc. The shape and symmetery of each of thesebreeds are as well known and distinctive as their colors. Thisshould also be the case with the Plymouth Rock, but the term Plymouth Rock Shape would not convey a very definite would suggest the Brahma shape to one man, to another theCochin shape, and to a third, something else, and so on. This time two years ago there was an effort made to inducebreeders of Plymouth Rocks to adopt a shape which should beuniform and characteristic. Breeders were asked to cooperate tothis end, and the A. P. A. was petitioned to make some sugges-tion in reference to it, but nothing came of it, and the result is,that there is no distinctive shape for the Plymouth Fig. 1. This fact was fully illustrated at the Centennial show last exhibitor had birds of a different shape from almost everyother. So much was this the case that it attracted general atten-tion, and our artist, at the suggestion of Dr. Dickie, made sketchesof several birds for purposes of illustration. These sketches wereshown to several leading fanciers at the time they were made, andon comparison with the originals, were pronounced good repre-sentations of them. For the purposeof more fully illustrating thesubject, by comparison, sketches were also made of a Dorkinghen, and a Partridge Cochin hen. Figure 1 represents the Cochin shape nearly in of body from front to rear, and depth of body perpen-dicularly, are here well shown. The cushion and fluff are also■well developed,—in short, this is nearly a typiical outline of aCochin. The bird was owned at Chestnut Grove Stock Farm,and was an extraordinarily fine one.
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