PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED BOOK 



PREFACE 



TO THE PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD 

 AND BREED BOOK 



FOR a number of years there has been a growing demand 

 among poultry breeders for the publication by the American 

 Poultry Association of what are popularly known as Sep- 

 arate Breed Standards a series of books, each one containing 

 the official Standard description of a single breed, and in addi- 

 tion, reliable and authoritative information in regard to the 

 actual breeding of such fowls. 



This work the Association has now undertaken and this 

 Plymouth Rock Breed Standard, the first of the series, will be 

 followed promptly by the Wyandotte Breed Standard. It is the 

 intention that additional numbers of the series shall follow as 

 rapidly as is practicable. 



The first step taken by the American Poultry Association 

 toward the construction and publication of Breed Books, referred 

 to at that time and even yet, as Breed Standards, was the adop- 

 tion at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting, Buffalo, August 15, 

 1910, of a resolution presented by Grant M. Curtis. 



The presentation and adoption of this resolution was the 

 outcome of a demand, more or less general on the part of the 

 breeders, for separate "Breed Standards," each of which would 

 describe completely one breed only, in addition to the complete 

 work, the "American Standard of Perfection," which gives a 

 description of best shape and color type of all breeds and varie- 

 ties recognized by the American Poultry Association, as well as 

 illustrations of both the ideal male and female of many of the 

 leading varieties ; also, rules by which all breeds and varieties 

 are judged at the poultry exhibitions of the United States and 

 Canada, and graphic illustrations of the ideal comb, feather 

 markings and the most common defects of standard fowls in 

 shape, color, and markings. 



By the terms of the resolution, the scope of the work was 

 much more comprehensive than the breeders in general had 



