. Our domestic birds; . and productiveness, andit had greater size than the Dominique. The fame of the new fcki -s -,**• Fig. 46. Buff Plymouth Rock cock 58 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS breed spread rapidly. It was impossible to supply the demandfrom the original stock, and, as there is usually more than oneway of producing a type by crossing, good imitations of theoriginal were soon abundant. Farmers and market poultrymenby thousands took up the Plymouth Rock, while all over theland fanciers were trying to perfect the color which their critical taste found very poor. Other varieties of the Plym-outh Ro
. Our domestic birds; . and productiveness, andit had greater size than the Dominique. The fame of the new fcki -s -,**• Fig. 46. Buff Plymouth Rock cock 58 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS breed spread rapidly. It was impossible to supply the demandfrom the original stock, and, as there is usually more than oneway of producing a type by crossing, good imitations of theoriginal were soon abundant. Farmers and market poultrymenby thousands took up the Plymouth Rock, while all over theland fanciers were trying to perfect the color which their critical taste found very poor. Other varieties of the Plym-outh Rock. The success of thePlymouth Rock gave fresh im-petus to efforts to make newbreeds and varieties of the samegeneral character. Great as wasits popularity, the new breed didnot suit all. Some did not likethe color ; some objected to thesingle comb, thinking that a rosecomb or a pea comb had advan-tages ; some preferred a shorter,blockier body; others wanted alarger, longer body. The off-colored birds which new races. Fig. 47. Silver-Penciled PlymouthRock hen usually produce in considerable numbers, even when the greaternumber come quite true, also suggested to some who obtainedthem new varieties of the Plymouth Rock, while to others itseemed better policy to give them new names and exploit themas new and distinct breeds. Both black and white specimens came often in the early flocksof Barred Plymouth Rocks. The black ones were developed asa distinct breed, called the Black Java. The white ones, aftergoing for a while under various names, and after strong oppo-sition from those who claimed that the name Plymouth Rockbelonged exclusively to birds of the color with which the namehad become identified, finally secured recognition as White FOWLS 59
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