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THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



White sports continued to appear in the best families of Barred 

 Rocks for a period of twenty years after the White Rock had made its 

 debut in Woodward's and Frost's initial exhibits. A. C. Smith states 

 that a certain mating of Barred Plymouth Rocks that he made at 

 Grove Hill Poultry Yards in 1895, produced five white chicks, four 

 cockerels and one pullet; and the year previous he had seen three 

 white sports in the yards of D. J. Lambert, prominent breeder of 

 Barred Rocks in Rhode Island. 



A. C. Hawkins has told of introducing into his yards in 1886, a 

 Barred Rock male from a successful breeder in the West, and in 



White Plymouth Rock winners at New York, owned by Wilburtha Poultry Farms, 

 M. L. Chapman, General Manager, Trenton Junction, New Jersey. 



nearly every brood of chicks that were hatched from this male dur- 

 ing the season, there was one or more pure white sports. These chicks 

 developed into typical Plymouth Rocks, had yellow legs and beaks, 

 were pure white and possessed large size. The following season he 

 mated the white sports together and from the mating every chick that 

 matured was "pure white with the exception of an occasional barred 

 feather in the plumage." 



Such was the foundation of Hawkins' strain of White Plymouth 

 Rocks. On birds of this breeding he won a number of prizes at the 



