BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



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A good pullet is not even one possessing a five-point comb and 

 barred to the skin. She must have length and type to be good. The 

 black bar should be of a soft tone like black velvet. There is a green 

 sheen in some, but that is not as good, even though it means that the 

 white bar will be whiter. The white bar should be clean white. "I 

 don't know as it ought to be pure white, like a laundered linen collar, 

 but there is no danger of us getting it that way anyhow," said Mr. 

 Thompson. "We aim for a pure white bar aim high and get it as 

 good as we can." 



Mating Barred Plymouth Rocks for color or double mating. All 



good Barred Rocks of today are 

 produced by the double mating 

 system. For a number of years 

 there were advocates of single or 

 Standard matings in the west 

 after all of the principal eastern 

 breeders had forsaken single mat- 

 ing; and the comparative value 

 of double mating vs. single or 

 Standard mating culminated in 



To the left, feathers from an exhibition Barred Plymouth Rock male, owned 

 by E. B. Thompson. To the right, feathers from a dark or cockerel-bred female 

 which should be mated to the exhibition male. 



