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 . a distance to obtainfor me a sitting of these birds eggs from W. Cook were eight chickens hatched from the 13 eggs, buttwo of them were white! Seven out of the eight had perfectDorking feet, with five toes, and six of the brood werefeather legged! Such a lovely lot of mongrels! And thisdoes not exhaust the list of Orpington varieties which Igot for my money. Two of the Buff c
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 . a distance to obtainfor me a sitting of these birds eggs from W. Cook were eight chickens hatched from the 13 eggs, buttwo of them were white! Seven out of the eight had perfectDorking feet, with five toes, and six of the brood werefeather legged! Such a lovely lot of mongrels! And thisdoes not exhaust the list of Orpington varieties which Igot for my money. Two of the Buff chickens are now inadult plumage and they are distinctly marked upon theirbacks with dark lacings, suggestive of Plymouth Rocks!The feathering on the legs is very slight and it has a ten-dency to disappear as the bird gets older. At any rate, Iwas told so by one of W. Cooks representatives. He didnot, however, explain, as Mr. Harrison Weir does, that thefeathers are to be pulled out and the holes filled up withwax! As I said before, the British public like being gulled,and they took William Cooks mongrel Black Orpingtonin preference to the pure Langshan, because he boomed itand lied about it ENGLISH BUFF ORPINGTONS, from Races of Domestic Poultry, by Edward Brown, England. THE ORPINGTONS 37 No doubt, Captain Gedney was somewhat prejudicedin favor of his Langshans, which, added to his neighborlyfeelings toward Mr. Cook, may have caused the above se-vere condemnation. Our English cousins when they at-tack each other in print, do not hesitate to call a spadea spade, or refrain from personalities. But every manhas his friends, so Mr. Cook was not left alone to fighthis battles, as the following letter, in answer to , which appeared in the January 12th, 1902, issue ofthe American Fancier, will prove: As a breeder and admirer of the Orpington, I haveread with much interest the correspondence that has re-cently appeared in the American Fancier rega
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