SECTION V. 



CHAPTER I. 

 SILVER-PENCILED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



THE ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT 



THE first Silver-Penciled Plymouth Rocks came from the 

 Cornell line of penciled fowls. While that gentleman was 

 developing a Silver-Penciled Wyandotte, both Mr. Cornell 

 and Mr. Shey, who had charge of Valleyview Farm at Ithaca, 

 New York, sent to Elmwood Farm single comb specimens from 

 their flocks. These were mated by George B. Randolph, the 

 owner of Elmwood Farm, with some single-comb specimens of 

 the same strain that he had hatched and reared at Elmwood. 



It was in the year of 1894 that Mr. Ezra Cornell of Ithaca. 

 New York, became interested with Mr. George H. Brackenbury 

 of Auburn, New York, in producing a Silver-Penciled Wyan- 

 dotte. Mr. Brackenbury had, prior to this, made a cross of a 

 Golden-Penciled (Partridge) Wyandotte male with a Dark 

 Brahma hen. Mr. Cornell selected a Silver-Laced Wyandotte 

 male, which he mated with a Silver-Penciled Hamburg female. 

 He also mated a Dark Brahma hen of the Newton Adams strain 

 with this Silver-Laced Wyandotte male. Some of the pullets 

 from both of these hens were mated to the Silver-Laced Wyan- 

 dotte male and other pullets from the same hens and to some of 

 the progeny produced by Mr. Brackenbury from his mating of 

 the Golden-Penciled male with the Dark Brahma female. 



Then Mr. Cornell gave some of the progeny from these 

 matings to Elmwood Farm, Weston, New Jersey, from which 

 was bred the Silver-Penciled Wyandotte female illustrated by 

 Mr. Sewell in the American Poultry Journal and in the Reliable 

 Poultry Journal of January, 1902. This female shows plainly 

 the Brahma shape. Some of the pullets from the same lot of 

 fowls had single combs. Mr. Cornell and later Mr. Wyckoff, 

 through Dennis Shey, sent a single-comb male and two single- 

 comb females from their flock to Elmwood Farm. ^These, with 



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