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a product so costly until he is privileged to use the specimen in 

 the line of life that he is building; until his line of breeding is so 

 well developed that a single bird is only an expression of the tend- 

 encies in that line and the line itself can go on and on producing 

 individuals of equal symmetry of form and perfection of feather. 



While the originators could offer no stock for sale in the spring 

 of 1896, surplus birds began to leave their yards later on, and these 

 birds were so well bred, the foundation had been so well laid, that 

 the sales-stock reproduced itself in fine order, and by 1901 the variety 

 was so well distributed and the birds produced were so true to type 

 and color that the Partridge Wyandotte was accorded recognition 

 as a Standardbred. 



The originators. Partridge \Vyandottes were developed simulta- 

 neously in the east and in the west. Discussion on the priority of 

 origin has resulted in giving precedence to neither the eastern nor 

 the western strain. The "facts" and "dates" on origin as recorded 

 in some treatises on the variety are errors, and after a survey of all 

 current material on the subject, we have found it necessary to go 

 back to original sources 

 and write anew the early 

 history of the origin of 

 this variety. 



George H. Bracken- 

 bury of New York state 

 conceived the idea of a 

 penciled Wyandotte, and 

 in 1889 made his first 

 crosses with the idea of 

 producing such a fowl. 

 The first mating was a 

 Golden Laced Wyandotte 

 male to a Partridge Co- 

 chin female. This mating 

 produced a few pullets 

 with double lacings. One 

 of these double - laced 

 pullets was mated back 

 to her Golden Wyan- 

 dotte sire in 1890. In 

 the year 1891 Golden 

 Penciled Hamburg blood 

 was introduced, also ad- 

 ditional Partridge Cochin 

 V,1r,r>M "R,,,- , rv c First prize Partridge Wyandotte cock, Michigan 



Od. tfyron L>. barr, State Fair) 1920 . Hatched May 4, 1919; great- 

 a Cochin breeder, also grandson of "Sunbrier" and carries 87^2% of the 

 V^,-1 c* t u blood of Sunbrier. Bred by T. W. Schoen, Sunbrier 



York Mate, be- Farms, Michigan. Photo taken when a cockerel. 



