—s 
By W. M. 
THIS is a breed of poultry which can be 
T recommended to anyone who is 
Wyandotte thinking of taking up poultry 
Fowl. keeping, whether the accom- 
modation be extensive as it is on a farm or 
restricted as in a garden. The Wyandotte 
is known as a modern variety, and was 
originally imported from the United States, 
where it is largely bred and held in high 
appreciation. It seems to have been derived 
from three sources—the Plymouth Rock, 
from which it gets its quality as a good 
winter layer of brown eggs, the Hamburgh, 
whose influence is seen in the plumage and 
et 
Photograph by C. Reid, Wishaw, N.B. 
FREEMAN. 
in its prolificacy (for it is a great layer), and 
the Dorking, whence it derives its qualities 
as a table bird. It may therefore be described 
as a good, general, utility fowl; at the same 
time it 1s easy to rear under any conditions, 
matures quickly, is a quiet and well-behaved 
bird, not given to flying over fences, and on 
account of its active habits is usually a very 
healthy class of fowl to keep—provided, of 
course, it is not over-fed and made indolent, 
as 1s so often the case with poultry kept in 
confinement. There are several sub-varieties, 
the principal being the golden and the silver, 
elther of which do well in confinement; the 
WYANDOTTES. 
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