HISTORY or |;.\RRI I) KKU 1>- OF Poll 1RY. 



pattern from a b!a'-k X white < ross. Ex] crimcnts an- now beini; 

 carried on in this direction by the writer. 



I!. Tin. COLOR \\i> I'\IIIK\ 01 EARL^ BAKKI i> IM\MI in 



Ri '( K.S. 



"I'll:- In-: Barred I'lynioutli Rock fowl- to In- entered under this 

 n. i n K- .ii .1 j "ul; r\ -ho\\ \\en- e\ hi Li led in I *<><) by I ). A. I 'pham 

 at\Yoi. Ma. 1 They had first been bred some four or five 



irs I .el on- that time. So far as I ha\e be. n alile to learn the 

 earlie-t ptibli-hed picture of foul- of thi- new ln-ed nf fo\\|-, 

 which \\a- in any d( MI accurate or adequate repiv-cniat ion 



(A the actual bird-. fir-t .ijtpeared in the .I// .\.-ricultnrist 



in Jaiuiar\-, [87 The \\ell-kno\\n |X'iiltr\ arti-t Mv. I r.'iik- 



lane L. Sewell siaiev 1 (hat he kn-\\- of no earlier picture than ihU 

 and his experience in ; hi- held i- extensive. \\ IH-I her t hi- pic t urc 

 is absolutely the lir-t '.I the Im-ed ti a is not e--eiuial. 



nor of any intere-t other than pureK anlii|iiariaii. The liju- 

 cal interest of the picture lie- hr-t in the fact that it -h>\\ - the 

 appearance of bird- of thi- l.reei] \er\ . arl\ in it- hi-tory. and 



lid in the fact that tin drauin^ j^ \\d| done, and nia\ be 



en with considerable confident as an aC( male i ( >i -t illation 

 of the appearance of tin I ( si .if the I'K tin nth Rock f<>\\ 1- .if that 

 time. This wood-cut , \\ Inch i- hen reproduced as l-'i^. 2, I 



Anally the initials, " E. I .."\\hich\\ereiln d\\in l-'m-l 



a rather clever delineator >f pmiltrv . \\lio \\orked in \t u York. 

 The picture was copied, or rather apparently printed from 

 the same block, without credit for a prior appearance, ami \\ith 

 the artist's initials cra-ed. in the Poultry \Vorld' ft.r |u!\. [872. 

 hi- from this publication that the pic u ire ha- been chieily knou n 

 to poultry fanciers. N-\\elb ^i\e- the I'.-nltry ]\'or!<l a- the 



_inal place of publication. 



Kubinson. J. H. " Piiiu-iplf- ami I'KI I. 



Ginn & Co., p. 

 *Vol. 31- 



3 Sewell. F. L. "(.'l.'i .,| 1'luinai;.- i.l th.- I',.ui.-.; <il>l,- 



..;/. \'nl. XV.. p. 5J.i, Iul\-, 1908. 

 1 \"ol. I., p. 85. I ii'- i"Uinul \\liirh lia< loii.u -in. 



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