. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. 102 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS—A QUARTETTE OF First and Second Cockerel, First and Second Pullet, at Maine State Poultry Show, Portland, Dec. 6-6, 1904 Raised and exhibited by A. P. Winslow, Freeport, Maine. A. P. WINSLOW OF FREEPORT. A Noted Breeder of Barred and White Plymouth Rocks. Freeport is the banner hen town o^ Cumberland County, and I am inclined to believe that it is the banner town of the entire State. At any rate, about all of its people are enthusiastic hen cranks, and their yards abound
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. 102 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS—A QUARTETTE OF First and Second Cockerel, First and Second Pullet, at Maine State Poultry Show, Portland, Dec. 6-6, 1904 Raised and exhibited by A. P. Winslow, Freeport, Maine. A. P. WINSLOW OF FREEPORT. A Noted Breeder of Barred and White Plymouth Rocks. Freeport is the banner hen town o^ Cumberland County, and I am inclined to believe that it is the banner town of the entire State. At any rate, about all of its people are enthusiastic hen cranks, and their yards abound in birds par ex- cellence, ranging in vaieties from the diminutive Seabright to the Black Lan- shan. Among these breeders there are none more enthusiastic and successful than A. P. Winslow. Mr. Winslow has been in terested in poultry keeping for a long time, taking as his first choice the old reliable Barred Plymouth Rocks. Like nearly every other keeper of this variety to try them was to like them, and the result has been the same in Mr. Winslow's case. He fully believed that it was possible to combine beauty and utility, and carefully kept their laying records by means of trap nests. I do not recall the highest number of eggs his most prolific layers produced, but it was a goodly number. His next test was the show room, and here he was equally as successful, winning at the winter shows and the fall fairs, as well as winning enough of the leading prizes, and demonstrated beyond a doubt that the beauty side of his birds had been well looked after. A few years ago he decided to take on another variety, and, very natur- ally, and I might say, very wisely as well, he selected the White Plymouth Rocks. In the first place, he started right by procuring the best stock and eggs obtainable for the nucleus of his flock, and in the second place he has proven conclusively that he knows how to mate his birds to produce the choicest show birds. It was my pleasure toiandle the White Rocks
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