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their frequent occurrence gave many opportunities to use them 

 in crosses with lines that had been originated in the manner 

 described. 



Still another cross was used to establish this variety with 

 more or less success. This was the cross of Barred and White 

 Plymouth Rocks. The results when the cockerel-line of Barred 

 Rocks was used are said to have been unsatisfactory, but good 

 results did come from the pullet-line cockerels mated with White 

 Plymouth Rock females. 



The Influence of the Columbian Wyandotte. Seldom is it 

 that credit for the creation of a breed or variety can be given 

 to one individual. Usually, one new creation in the poultry 

 world suggests another similar in many respects, but unlike in 

 some, to the first. 



This Columbian Plymouth Rock variety probably furnishes 

 as striking an instance of this as is found among the Standard 

 varieties, but it is but one of many, and in no way differs from 

 the many. Columbian Wyandottes were exhibited nine years 

 before the first cross to perpetuate these Plymouth Rock cousins 

 was made. No doubt the Columbian Wyandotte had suggested 

 the possibility of a Plymouth Rock of the same color pattern, 

 long before the suggestion was acted upon by the originators of 

 Columbian Plymouth Rocks. Many of us may be wondering 

 how Columbian Leghorns or Columbian Dorkings or scores of 

 other varieties would look, but we do not act upon this sugges- 

 tion until we are confident that such a variety will be worth 

 while. To be worth while, a new variety must be better in one 

 or more respects than those that are already established, or 

 handsomer. It must be admitted that most of our new varieties 

 have been an outcome of a conviction in the minds of one or 

 more persons, that the beauty of one breed can be combined with 

 the usefulness of another. By the creation of the Columbian 

 Wyandotte, a fowl, much smaller but yet of medium size, of 

 good laying qualities, with smooth legs and with the same 

 color pattern as the Light Brahma, was established, but an im- 

 portant fact, the one which must have crystallized the sugges- 

 tion of a new variety of a different breed along these lines into 

 an actuality, was that the Columbian Wyandotte had proved 

 during this trial decade that it was worth while. 



Who Was the Originator? On this point Mr. D. M. Green, 

 one of the early breeders of this variety, for several years secre- 

 tary of the Columbian Plymouth Rock Club, since connected 



