PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED BOOK 345 



taining descriptions of seventy-nine varieties of fowls, and con- 

 sisting of 243 pages. Revisions of this Standard of Excellence 

 were made at Chicago, 1876 ; Buffalo, 1877, and Portland, Maine, 

 1878. The 1878 edition remained unchanged for many years, as 

 did the Scale of Points. Further revisions of more or less im- 

 portance were made at Indianapolis, 1888; Buffalo, 1889, and 

 Chicago, 1893, but the most thorough revision of the Standard 

 occurred at Fishers Island, New York, in 1897, when many 

 important changes were made, among them being the separation 

 of the shape and color descriptions to the breed it belonged to. 

 'Typical Carriage" was substituted for "Symmetry" in the Scale 

 of Points. This Standard was adopted at the twenty-second 

 annual meeting of the American Poultry Association, held at 

 Boston, Massachusetts, January, 1898. Additions to this Stand- 

 ard were made at Chicago, 1901 ; Charleston, South Carolina, and 

 Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1902. But the above revisions, as well 

 as all subsequent ones, did not affect the Scale of Points. 



FIRST SCALE OF POINTS 



The first Scale of Points printed were those in the Halstead 

 Standard in 1867. They were called "Points in Brahmas," 

 "Cochins," "Dorkings" and other breeds in vogue at that time. 

 As no Plymouth Rocks or Wyandottes were recognized by the 

 Standard at that time, we reproduce below the Scale of Points 

 given for "Light Brahmas": 



Points in Brahmas 



Size .. 3 



Color 4 



Head and Comb 1 



Wings, Primaries well tucked under Secondaries 1 



Legs and Feathering, ditto 1 



Fluff ! 1 



Symmetry 2 



Condition 2 



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