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THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



he sold twelve of his best clean-legged pullets and a cockerel to 

 Whittaker for $25. 



Whittaker went to the expense in 1874 of securing a wood cut 

 of a pair of Wyandottes which represented his ideal. (See illustra- 

 tion.) This was the first cut of the new breed that had been made. 

 It reflected Whittaker's original conception of the breed. It cost 

 him $25. He traded an electrotype of the cut to Ray for a pullet. 



The First Illustration of Wyandottes. Made by B. N. Pierce 

 for L. H. Whittaker in 1874, when the breed was known as 

 American Sebrights. 



The cut was later used by many breeders to illustrate their adver- 

 tising matter. In this illustration, Whittaker did much to bring 

 breeders into unison on the questions of type and color, for the 

 picture told the whole story of type and color, completely and fully. 

 Whittaker not only put forth efforts to get all breeders of the 

 fowl to breed to a common ideal, but he took a genuinely keen inter- 



