. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 4o8 POULTRY CULTURE shade from very light to very dark, and with both rose and single combs, was a common type in one or more communities in the state of New York, and furnished the material from which the Sil- ver Wyandotte was developed, largely by selection. This version carries more probability than the other, even though it offers no explanation of the origin of the color pattern and makes no attempt to show what elements composed the stock. It makes the Silver Wyandotte one of the numerous types early developed in efforts to fix a g
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 4o8 POULTRY CULTURE shade from very light to very dark, and with both rose and single combs, was a common type in one or more communities in the state of New York, and furnished the material from which the Sil- ver Wyandotte was developed, largely by selection. This version carries more probability than the other, even though it offers no explanation of the origin of the color pattern and makes no attempt to show what elements composed the stock. It makes the Silver Wyandotte one of the numerous types early developed in efforts to fix a general-purpose type, making some progress locally on its merits and, after the success of the Barred Rock had stimu- lated breeders to new efforts, taken up for the development of the ideal of which it was then only a suggestion. The favorite type of the early Silver Wyan- dottes was rriuch darker than that with which breeders are now familiar. The modern exhibition birds of this variety have the color of the Silver Polish, but with black tails. The Golden-Laced Wyandotte was produced in Wisconsin by crossing the silver-laced variety with a local breed known as the Winnebago, the origin of which is unknown.! i-jjg color pattern is the same as in the silver-laced 1 In " Wyandottes: Silver, Golden, Black, and White," by Joseph Wallace, 1891, Joseph McKeen, of Omro, Wisconsin, is quoted as denying that the Winnebagos had been bred a long time in Wisconsin, and claiming that he originated them. McKeen places the beginning of his work with the Winnebagos " a few years after " 1872 or 1873, 3"<i indicates that, at the time he crossed them with the Silver- Laced Wyandottes, they were in a very crude condition. At about the time when McKeen said that he was beginning to make the Winnebagos, the author, then a boy in Galena, Illinois, bought, in the market of that town, two hens called Winne- bagos, of a redder ground color than the early Golden Wyandottes, a
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