78 POULT h'Y PHODUCriON 



The first s]X'cimciis leading to our present stoel^ . 

 were exliibited l:)y i\[r. ]). A. Upliani, of Wilsonviile, 

 Conn., at Worcester, ?i[ass., in 1SG9. Tliey were origi- 

 nated !)>■ Mr. Josepli Spaulding, of Putnam, ('onn. Mucli 

 interest was manifested in tliem, and led to tlie steps 

 wliicli nltiinated in tlie I'lssex strain nine years later. From 



Fig. 



White ^y^■:^Il(lotte, male (American). 



tiie first they 'caught on,' hoth with exhihitors and prac- 

 tical ])oultry keepers. Something must he allowetl for the 

 fact that the breed was an undoubted American production. 

 It is not too much to say that the great development of the 

 poultry industry in America owed much to the breed." 



The foregoing a]>])lies to the Barred Plymouth Rocks, 

 at first simply called " Plymouth Pocks." l'he]\Vhites were 



