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the past season having sold for five hundred dollars each in males 

 and fifty dollars each for females. It has come to pass that 

 hundreds of White Rock exhibition males are now sold each 

 season at from fifty to one hundred dollars each. This is evidence 

 in proof of my opening statement that the White Plymouth 

 Rocks are today the most beautiful and profitable of all standard 

 varieties. • 



Remember, however, that the White Plymouth Rocks are 

 "bred for business'' as well as fancy. White Rock chicks mature 

 earlier than those of most other varieties, becoming broilers at 

 six to eight weeks of age. As above state,d, they have no sup- 

 eriors as egg producers. If this claim is not acknowledged today, 

 it soon will be the world over. White Rock pullets often begin 

 to lay at five months of age, and I have known flocks that did 

 not stop laying even during molting season. 



In conclusion, I make bold to say that there is no other 

 variety of fowl that has won the admiration of the fancier, the 

 farmer and the market poultryman as have the White Plymouth 

 Rocks. As a farm and market fowl they 

 have no equal, and the prices paid for 

 fancy specimens are a fair index of their 

 standard quaHties. Farmers and market 

 poultrymen are adopting them as the 

 superiors of aU other breeds and varie- 

 ties. They are always ready for market 

 from the age of six weeks on; their large 

 size comnaands attention and high prices, 

 the hens weighing from seven and a half 

 to nine pounds; their rich, yellow shanks 

 and skin insure a clean plump carcass, 

 bringing the highest market prices ob- 

 tainable, at any season. Last, but not 

 least, the feathers from White Rocks to- 

 day bring twenty-eight cents per pound 

 while those of parti-colored varieties bring 

 but two and one-half cents per pound. 

 Please consider well the difference, for 

 here is a strong argument in favor of 

 "pure white" plumage. 



When it comes to breeding White 

 Plymouth Rocks, this is a pleasure indeed. 

 Their beautiful plumage, bright red combs, 

 deep bay eyes, rich, yellow legs and up- 

 right, powerful appearance are a constant 

 source of delight to the genuine fancier. 

 I have been a breeder of fancy poultry for 

 more than a quarter of a century, starting 

 with the exact opposites of White Ply- 

 mouth Rocks, so far as color is con- 

 cerned, having bred and exhibited prize-winning Black Lang- 

 shans at the New Orleans World's Fair which was held so 

 long ago that most poultrymen of today have forgotten the 

 event, but at present I am making a specialty of the White 

 Rocks, and intend to continue doing so the rest of my active 

 life, because I like them best of aU. If you, reader, have not 

 yet become wedded to a particular breed or variety, try the 

 White Plymouth Rocks and become convinced of their excel- 

 lent qualities. 



BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



C. L. PENCYL, Bloomsbusg, Pa. 



I breed Buff PljTnouth Rocks exclusively. I have had 

 quite a number of other varieties in my early poultry life — being 

 somewhat undecided as to what breed I would like the best — 



and after several years experience I decided that T could not 

 find the same pleasure in any of the other breeds. I think for 

 any fancier to make a success of the fancy poultry business, 

 that is, profit as well as pleasure, he must see which breed is 

 going to please him the best and then breed but the one variety. 

 He will find that the one variety will give him plenty to do and 

 that he can make just as much money out of one breed as he 

 can out of two or three other varieties. I find both pleasure 

 and profit in the Buff Plymouth Rocks, and that is why I breed 

 them exclusively, and from the several hundred birds raised 

 every year, I have the first year yet to come that I have raised 

 more than I could sell. 



BufI Rocks as a utility fowl for the market cannot be ex- 

 celled. They have the size, rich yeUow skin, no black pin 

 feathers and good plump bodies-v-any more you connotaskfor 

 in a table fowl. As egg producers, I find them excellent layers. 

 They get broody occasionally, but if taken when first noticed 

 and penned up for a few days, they will soon forget and will get 



TWO OF MR. PENCYL'S BUFF ROCK HENS 



back to laying in a very short time. Take it the year around, 

 I think their egg account will balance any of the other Rock 

 varieties. We know some of the smaller varieties may lay a 

 few more eggs, but the Buffs are fitted up with nice low combs 

 and a heavy coat of feathers and well prepared for the extreme 

 cold weather; if housed up in good quarters will lay the whole 

 winter when eggs are at their highest price. I find from experi- 

 ence that they will lay more eggs in the winter than the large 

 combed varieties. 



Taking fancy Buff Plymouth Rocks, I consider there is no 

 fowl in the world that is more attractive in the yard or on the 

 farm than this variety — ^for what attracts the eye more than a 

 beautiful shade of rich golden buff — the coat of a Buff Rock. 

 They are equally as attractive in the show room and if you are 

 lucky to start in right with the best standard stock, you will 

 not have much trouble by a Uttle careful mating to breed speci- 

 mens fit to show or win at the leading shows of America. There 

 usually is a good demand for fine specimens selling in price for 

 $50. to $100. each. 



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