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POULTRY CULTURE 



FIG. 417. Columbian Wyandotte cockerel 



U. Lincoln Orr, Orr's Mills, New York 



(Photograph by Sewell) 



The Silver-Penciled Wyan- 

 dotte was produced almost 

 simultaneously with the Brack- 

 enbury- Cornell strain of the 

 foregoing variety, by the same 

 breeders, and was admitted to 

 the Standard only a year later, 

 in 1902. This variety was 

 made by mating a Dark 

 Brahma hen to a Partridge 

 Wyandotte male, and Dark 

 Brahma and Silver-Penciled 

 Hamburg females to a Silver- 

 Laced Wyandotte male, and 

 by breeding selected speci- 

 mens from the offspring of 

 these matings. The coloration 

 is the same as of the Dark 

 Brahma. 

 Columbian Wyandottes were introduced in 1893 by B. M. 



Briggs (who introduced the White Wyandottes). The name was 



given in 'honor of the Columbian Exposition in progress at the 



time. The color and markings 



are the same as of the Light 



Brahma. In the original Briggs 



stock the color was produced first 



from a chance mating of a White 



Wyandotte cock and a Barred 



Plymouth Rock hen. The variety, 



when introduced, attracted little 



attention. A few breeders took it 



up, and some of them, not satis- 

 fied with the color and having 



little confidence in getting what 



they desired by selection from the 



original stock, resorted to other 



crosses. The White Wvandotte FlG ' 4l8 ' Columbian Wyandotte 



anrl T io4^ 13 u pullet, D. Lincoln Orr. (Photograph 



and Light Brahma were used, and by Sewell} 



