194 THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



Wyandotte eggs. A year earlier George H. Towle, of Trtixton, obtained a trio of 

 American Sebrights, afterwards named Wyandottes and later Silver Wyandottes. 

 During the spring of 1872 there appeared among his broods several pure white sports. 



Mr. Towle mated these white birds together the 'following season and they bred 

 true to color with the blocky Sebright type. They had the orange yellow legs and 

 skin of the American Sebright, also the creamy tinge of plumage, making them an 

 ideal fowl for the market. 



These white fowls were bred in their purity by Mr. Towle and his relatives until 

 1885, when George A. Preston, of Binghamton, New York, purchased several pens 

 of them and advertised them largely in the poultry press. 



I became interested in their merits, and one pleasant morning in the spring of 



Well modeled White Wyandotte cock at head of 2d 

 prize pen, Boston, Jan., 1920. Bred by Sabrina Farm, Arthur 

 H. Shaw, prop,, Arthur G. Duston, supt, Massachusetts. 



1886 I landed in Binghamton and was taking a quiet look at Mr. Preston's birds 

 before breakfast. Mr. Preston showed me his books with the many sales of stock 

 and eggs he was making, and within an hour I owned the entire stock and they 

 were shipped to Lancaster. 



That same night I registered at a hotel at Truxton, New York, and the follow- 

 ing morning was on the warpath for every White Wyandotte in the town. Before 

 night every bird was shipped and I was the owner of practically all the White 

 Wyandottes in the country. With the liberal use of printers' ink there was caused 

 a great demand for eggs and .stock, and the first boom in the now far-famed White 

 Wyandottes was on. 



The practical merits of this popular fowl soon became known in all parts of 



