The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma42unse Year: 1902 28 THE EASTERN POUTRYMAN. important phase of our workâthat of utility. Care should be taken that in our eflforts to obtain fancy points we do not lose any of the good practical qualities of the bird. In the matter of size, I incline to breed- ing the Wyandotte well up to the standard weight or over, and I believe it is desire- able to do so from a practical standpoint. The larger bird produces a larger egg: the chick comes to the market size much quicker and in my experience, the large female will projuct just as many eggs as the small
The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma42unse Year: 1902 28 THE EASTERN POUTRYMAN. important phase of our workâthat of utility. Care should be taken that in our eflforts to obtain fancy points we do not lose any of the good practical qualities of the bird. In the matter of size, I incline to breed- ing the Wyandotte well up to the standard weight or over, and I believe it is desire- able to do so from a practical standpoint. The larger bird produces a larger egg: the chick comes to the market size much quicker and in my experience, the large female will projuct just as many eggs as the smaller one. The standard weight for the W'yandotte-might well be increased one pound to my opinion. Much has been said on the question of which shade of buff shall we hold to. The answer which some breeders have given to this question is, 'Hold to the shade which is the most difficult to pro- duce;' (rather a selfish answer). The an- swer I give to this question is, hold to the shade which strikes the popular fancy, and which is in other respects the most practical. I\Iy experience has been that the popular fancy runs to the orange or pumpkin buff or a darker shade rather than to the lemon buff. I have yet to have the first visitor to my yards tell me that he fancied the lemon huft shade. The farmer and other breeders not familiar with the controversy over which shade is the right shade, will select without hesitancy the darker shade as his choice and pronounce it more desirable and more beautiful. This is a potent reason why we should accept the orange shade as the standard buff. If the breed is to be a popular breed it must be acceptable to the eye of the mass of poulterers. The lemon shade of buff is not attrac- tive to the lay poultryman, and especially after it has been once shed. It is urged that the orange buff is not buff at all, etc., but it is sufficient to say that it is buff enough to have been ac- cepted for years by breeders of Buff Cochins as the desirable shade. It
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