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the courageous, sincere, constructive breeders weathered the storm 

 and brought out better Wyandottes at the end as a result of restricted 

 sales and small matings. 



Important developments in Silver Wyandottes. The first Standard 

 for Wyandottes, as written by Mr. Felch, was evidently written for 

 Wyandottes as they were, and not as forward-looking breeders hoped 

 them to be. It is always important that the Standard should set an 

 ideal to be aimed at. And it is wholesome that breeders should aim 

 high. A Standard which merely described what is a common existing 



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The Extreme Dark Fad in Lacing as Bred by F. W. Lenker, Killinger, Pennsylvania. 

 The above pen was illustrated in American Poultry Journal, February issue, 1888. 



type does not lead to advancement. "Without vision the people 

 perish." 



Felch's Standard allowed the breasts of cocks to be broken black 

 and white in color. It was on this point that Joseph Wallace 

 remarked: 



We may be wrong in our opinion, but we incline to the belief that the breed 

 was especially designed from the start to be laced; that the lacing should be as near 

 like that of the Silver Laced Sebright Bantam as it possibly could ; that it is the 

 intention of the majority of the breeders to keep them, distinctly laced; that they 

 should not resemble either the Dark Brahma or Silver Spangled Hamburg in plumage, 



