AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
tapers to a fine point near the extremity of the 
feather. 
Golden-Laced Wyandottes are the same as the 
Silver-Laced, except that golden bay takes the place 
of white in their plumage. 
Silver-Penciled Wyandottes have the same kind 
of plumage as the Dark Brahma. This variety, as 
well as the Laced, are beautiful and practical fowls. 
Partridge Wyandottes have the same color and 
markings as the Partridge Cochin. 
Black Wyandottes are black in all sections and 
are rarely bred. 
Columbian Wyandottes. The latest addition to 
the Wyandotte family. Immensely popular from 
the start, mostly because they deserve it, but partly 
because of the craze for new varieties. In color 
they are counterparts of the old Light Brahma; 
otherwise they do not differ from the other varie- 
ties of ’Dottes. 
Rhode Island Reds are not a strictly “new” 
breed, but they have been recognized in the Amer- 
Rhode Island ican Standard of Perfection for only 
Reds a comparatively few years. They 
are a general-purpose breed; fair layers of brown 
eggs; medium in size, sitters. Standard weights, 
cock, 814 pounds; cockerel, 714 pounds; hen, 
614 pounds; pullet, 5 pounds. There are both 
rose-combed and single-combed varieties, the lat- 
ter being the most common. 
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