1)0 AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 



Of the truth of the statement in this previous sentence, the fol- 

 lowing letter, which was written to the writer January 1, 1900, 

 will prove convincing: 



Wilsonville, Conn., 1-1- '00. 

 Friend Smith: 



Replying to your favor received. I received two copies of Farm 

 Poultry, one containing your articles and one of Mr. - , who 



is way off on his statement. If he is correct, where did the progeny 

 of Mr. Spaulding get their feathered legs if crossed with Black Javas 



as claims. Javas were smooth-legged fowls, no feathers, 



black in color or very dark slate color and bottom of feet VERY 

 yellow, and everybody knows that the Barred Plymouth Rocks (or. 

 ought to know) had more or less feathers on legs for four or five 

 years from first cross made by Spaulding, who never bred them only 

 for poultry and eggs with all kinds of barnyard fowls. I bought my 

 birds the second year that Mr. Spaulding bred them. Bought the 

 cock that Spaulding bred as a cockerel and two hens. Those three 

 birds were the progeny of Spaulding 's single comb old-fashioned hawk 

 colored cock bred to two or three black Cochin hens had of David 

 Clark of Woodstock, Conn., a fact I know from Spaulding 's and Clark's 

 sayings to me when I bought my birds, and the hens ALL had heavy 

 feathered legs. The trio I bought had feathers on legs. Mark Pitman 

 knows it to be a fact as he saw the old trio at Worcester when I sold 

 to C. Carol Loring, also Oilman of Nashua, N. H., knows that they 

 bred feathers on legs more or less for years. 



My birds all bred single combs, both sexes, NOT ONE did I ever 

 have come rose comb and for two years my chicks came with more 

 or less feathers on legs some with very few and half or more showing 

 feathers to a considerable extent. 



D. A. UPHAM. 



That Mark Pitman approved of the account of the origin as 

 written by Bishop will be clearly proved by the following self- 

 explanatory letter : 



79 Thurston Street, Somerville, Mass. 

 Mr. Smith. 



Dear Sir: Your letter came to me where I have been living fcr 

 nearly seven years. I have been giving away poultry matter for the 

 past ten years. 



I think, the last I gave to Mr. Atherton, the proprietor of the Stock 

 Keeper, printed in Boston. 



Among that was a history of the Plymouth Rock by the Rev. 

 M. Bishop, an Episcopal minister living in Connecticut. That history 

 was accredited by Mr. Upham and myself, which you can call upon 

 Mr. Atherton and get, which will give you the dates asked for. 



