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came to the forefront as their greatest champion and leading breeder. 



Taking up the White Wyandotte in connection with several other 

 varieties at a time when he was interested in producing broilers for 

 the Boston market, Mr. Duston was quick to appreciate the value 

 of the variety, and in 1894 he began to breed it to the exclusion of 

 all others. 



Mr. Duston never forget the utility of the breed. He persisted 

 in breeding a clean-cut type of Wyandotte. He had the Standard 

 changed at the Rochester meeting, years ago, to call for freedom 

 from long, profuse fluff feathering so that the drumstick of the bird 

 might show a little. 



In judging Wyandotte males, he looked on the shoulders as the 

 keystone to the arch of the whole bird. He bred birds that carried 

 their shoulders down, always maintaining, and rightly so, that when 

 the shoulders of a Wyandotte are up, the breast appears deficient, 

 the back goes down, and the symmetry of Wyandotte carriage is lost. 



As proprietor of Rose Lawn Poultry Earm, Mr. Duston bred stay- 

 white plumage into his birds, put red eyes throughout his entire 

 flock, bred off the green spots on shanks. When we visited his farm 

 in 1912 there was not an off-colored bird on the place. 



Arthur Duston is one of the best conditioners of white fowls in 

 the east, and his exhibits at New York always have been beautiful 

 examples of the fitter's art. The main attraction of the White Wyan- 

 dotte class at the December, 1910, New York show was the first 

 prize cockerel shown by A. G. Duston. He again won first cockerel, 

 also first pullet, at New York, 1913; and first cockerel, Boston, 1914, 

 was won by one of his customers on a straight Duston bird. 



Other well known breeders. Other prominent breeders in the 

 east have been C. F. A. Smith, of Waltham, Massachusetts, who took 

 up the variety in 1886, and won best display at Boston, 1900, and 

 first cock, first hen, first cockerel and first pullet at New York. 1902; 

 George Dakin, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who furnished the birds 

 to Ross C. H. Hallock which won first cock, first hen, first cockerel 

 and first pullet at New York, 1905; W. R. Graves, Charles Nixon, 

 J. W. Andrews, J. H. Jackson, George H. Pollard, A. J. Fell, F. B. 

 Williams, T. E. Orr, Edgar Briggs, M. F. Delano and A. H. Shaw. 



In the west, the more prominent breeders have been J. C. Fishel 

 and his son, Charles Fishel, Charles V. Keeler, George H. Rudy, 

 H. J. Riley, Ira C. Keller, Charles E. Cram, W. S. Beebe, H. H. Fike, 

 F. J. Wehrmeyer, L. J. Demberger, D. D. Sullivan, Fred E. Pile, A. H. 

 Emch, Otto O. Wild, Dr. W. H. Humiston, A. J. Smith and Ross 

 C. H. Hallock. 



Canada has also contributed her share of great breeders to this 

 popular variety, and the names of John S. Martin and Sid Saunders 

 are well known to breeders. Indeed, John Martin has gone further 

 than any other breeder of White Wyandottes in all America in build- 



