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fancier's text book. Thoroughbred chickens are 

 divided into ten general classes. 



The first is the American class. This includes six 

 breeds : Plymouth Rock, of which there are four 

 varieties the Barred, White, Buff and Columbian ; 

 Wyandottes, of which there are eight varieties 

 Silver, Golden, White, Buff, Black, Partridge, Silver 

 Penciled and Columbian ; Javas, in two varieties 

 Black and Mottled ; American Dominiques, Rhode 

 Island Reds and Buckeyes. Plymouth Rocks, Wyan- 

 dottes and Rhode Island Reds are most prominent. 



The characteristic shape and appearance of the 

 Single-Comb Barred Plymouth Rock is well exhib- 

 ited in colored Plate I. The color of the plumage, 

 is a grayish- white, each feather crossed with bars of 

 blue-black. The color is the same as that of the 

 Dominique. They are a general-purpose chicken, 



I are superior 

 layers and 

 make shapely 

 | dressed poul- 

 try. Being 

 well adapted 

 to farm con- 

 I ditions they 

 have long 

 ] been popular 

 WHITE WYANDOTTES. as the "farm- 



er's fowl." A full-grown cock should weigh nine and 

 one-half pounds, and a hen two pounds less. The other 

 varieties of the breed differ only in comb or plumage. 

 Wyandottes, in all of the many varieties, have 



