BREEDS DESCRIBED 
There are three standard varieties in the Plym- 
outh Rock family, viz., the Barred, White, and 
Plymouth Buff. With all of them the comb is 
Rocks single and serrated, and medium to 
small in size; the ear-lobes are red, while the skin, 
beak, legs and toes should be of a deep-yellow 
color. The bodies are well balanced with regard 
to shape and symmetry, being of neither a blocky 
nor an angular type. Standard weights are, cock, 
91% pounds; cockerel, 8 pounds; hen, 714 pounds; 
pullet, 62 pounds. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. Breeds may come and 
breeds may go, but it will be a long time before 
one of them usurps the prestige of the Barred 
Rock in America. For years they have stood at 
the head of the procession, and to-day it is very 
probable that there are more Barred Plymouth 
Rock chickens in this country than of any two 
other breeds, on account of the large numbers of 
them to be found on the farms. The bars on 
feathers should be narrow and parallel and alter- 
nately: white and bluish-black in color. The dou- 
ble-mating system* is generally used in breeding 
exhibition Barred Rocks, and considerable skill is 
required in breeding this variety for fancy points, 
owing to the difficulty in getting the proper shade 
of color and correct markings of plumage. 
* By ‘double mating ’’ is meant the use of two separate matings to pro- 
duce birds of standard color and markings in each of the two sexes. 
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