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POULTRY CULTURE 



birds when mated to- 

 gether or mated with 

 White Plymouth Rock 

 stock. With sporting 

 still occurring, it is 

 easy to accept the 

 statements of the early 

 breeders of Barred 

 Rocks, who say that 

 white sports were com- 

 mon. From the use of 

 white fowls in matings 

 to produce Barred 

 Plymouth Rocks it 

 may be inferred that 

 white specimens were 

 often produced in con- 

 siderable numbers by 

 direct transmission of 

 color and by reversion 

 to known ancestors. It is also probable that many white fowls of 

 this type were produced from 

 accidental crosses. It is further 

 quite well established that some 

 were produced with design to 

 make a White Plymouth Rock by 

 breeders who preferred that color. 

 Up to the time of their admission 

 to the American Standard, white 

 fowls of this type went by vari- 

 ous names. After that the vari- 

 ations in type were harmonized 

 and strain differences gradually 

 eliminated as in the barred vari- 

 ety. For some time after their 



FIG. 398- White Plymouth Rock cock, owned by 



Urban Farms, Pine Ridge, Buffalo, New York 



(Photograph by Schilling) 



introduction the White Rocks 

 were usually considered less vig- 

 orous than the others, but if that 



FIG. 399. White Plymouth Rock hen 



(Photograph from owner, C. E. Hodg- 



kins, Northampton, Massachusetts) 



