Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-10-29

bnrgs, and Rose Combed White
Leghorns (then in their infancy
were also used in the manipulation
of The White Wyandotte in its early
stages.
Still another element has crept in
to better the size, constitution, and
size and color of eggs, to wit:--the
smooth legged White Wonders, $50
called) these being produced from
the cross Of WhiteWyando males
upon albino Brahma hens. To
this cross we are indebted for the
large dark shelled eggs in many of
the Wyandotte flocks of the present
day.
1t is a significant fact that
specimen with pure white plumage
in the Rocks more generally favors
the Wyandotte type, while Wyan.
dotte females with creamy color
and yellow quill are more liable to
be elongated and slightly convex
shaped. thus favoring the Rock
type. Small boned, short bodied
light weight Wyandottes are traced,
in the majority of cases, to either
excessive use of the incubator, or to
those families in which White Ham
burg blood was used in their early
history, while weight and slightly
elongated bodies of recent date are
traced enthusiastically to the Brah-
ma blood brought to such families
through the Wonder cross of White
Wyandotte- Brahma origin.
The foregoing are all facts within
the knowledge of the writer. Our
exhibitions demonstrate which of
the several families now on the
boards are best appreciated.
There is no denying the fact that
the Brahma infusion of blood has
given constitution, and larger
frames, and more uniform size, and
color to the eggs, and thus far done
more to make the White Wyandotte
a fixture and a popular favorite
among the white plumed fowls of
the land than any other cross used
to give life and strength to albiu-
ism.
That the Hamburg cross may not
be misunderstood, be it known
that the Standard for a time ad-
mitted White Hamburgs with yell
low legs. The limitation on them
expired about the time of the adj
mission OF the Rose Comb White
Leghorns and White Wyandottes.
Thus you see they were utilized
with both White Leghorns and
White Wyandottes, and finally alb
sorbed by those two breeds | re-
member that on receiving some
White Wyandotte eggs from a GER
tain breeder returned half of the
eggs with a note saying that was
not buying Hamburg and Leghorn
eggs as White Wyandotte eggs.
That season there was a great
call for White Wyandotte eggs,-so
great that in single week l sold
500 worth of them.
The breed has come out of its
transition state the strongest, and
best breeding, and most popular of
any breed OF albino origin that the
country has ever known.
The American Dominique. Here
is a breed that shoule be immortal
lied as the ancestor of America $
first and most popular breed-the
Barred Plymouth Rock, 1t gave
birth to a breed that, because of
clearer color and greater weight,
supplanted it.
The early specimens (from 1874
to 1860 in New England were uni
versally those of single comb, and
called "the hawk colored fowls" by
the farmers of those days. These
we're the ancestors that figured in
the makeup of the Plymouth Rocks
previous to 1869. But the best, and
those of the rose comb which ulti-
mately brought them into our Stan
dard as the American Dominique,
were of french origin; the best spec
linens the writer ever saw, being
those showed at Chicago's first ex-
hibition in 1866, by Colonel How
land.