LEADING STANDARD VARIETIES 



Buff Rocks are growing stronger every year in the eyes of 

 the fanciers and they number right up in line at the big shows 

 of America. At the World's Fair, St. Louis, the Buff Plymouth 

 Rocks were second largest class of any variety at the show, 

 probably the largest poultry show ever held in America. I can 

 honestly advise any person that wants to breed poultry for 

 fancy or market, for pleasure or profit, that they won't make 

 any mistake in taking up the Buff Rocks. They make money 

 for us, and they will do the same for you by dealing honestly 

 with your trade. I have shipped to nearly every state in the 

 union and Canada, and as tar in the foreign countries as Malay- 

 sia, Java and India, and the reports were that after eight weeks 

 of a journey the birds arrived^ safdy in good condition and 

 more than pleased the customer. The Buff Rocks are strongly 

 constituted and can stand lots of cold weather and long journeys. 



The Buff Plymouth Rock Club is using every possible effort 

 to place this variety on the "top notch." If any person who 

 may read this is undecided as to what breed to start with, I 

 can say from experience that the Buff Plymouth Rocks will 

 start you on the road to success. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES 



ARTHUR G. DUSTON, So. Framingham, Mass. 



It has been almost fifteen years now that I have been 

 writing and preaching of the virtues of the White Wyandottes 

 and while other breeds have come and gone the White Wyan- 

 dotte has been gaining ground not only as a fancy but as a 

 market bird as well. I will first make mention of the intrinsic 

 or market value, for no matter how handsome a fowl may be, 

 they must "make good" as egg producers and table fowl to 

 maintain their popularity with the American people. 



My experience raising broilers and roasters covers some 

 years, and when first taken up was with'a prejudice for another 

 variety, but a short trial proved to me that nothing that I was 

 running at that time would begin to stand the forcing and make 

 the quick growth that the White Wyandottes would, and as 

 roasters for brooder house work they would stand more forcing, 

 and keep on their feet, than any of the half dozen other varieties 

 I tried. For the Boston market, considered one of the most 

 fastidious in the country to cater to, they were complimented as 

 the best poultry sent in in the season. 



As layers I have letters from customers where they have 

 discarded the Leghorns as their White Wyandottes out-laid 

 them. Birds sold by me have made records of 207 eggs in 

 Experiment Station and other work, and the farms that are 

 running today with layers having big records are almost without 

 exception breeding White Wyandottes exclusively. Regards 

 laying, with ordinary care they will come to lajdng in from 

 five to seven months, laying persistently through all changes 

 of weather and conditions. It is these practical quahties that 

 make possible the real popularity of this splendid breed. 



Now from a fancy standpoint we have what is acknow- 

 ledged by all breeders of the different varieties a handsome fowl, 

 and by those the least favorable to them, as the handsomest 

 bird bred today. A solid colored bird, with pure white plumage, 

 close fittiug comb, stout yellow legs, and of splendid propor- 

 tions (if our Standard makers do not spoil them by trying to 

 make them "dumpy" by the demand for extreme shortness) 

 and withal a bright active appearance, does truly substantiate 

 the claim of the handsomest all 'round variety bred today. As 

 a, proof of their popularity witness the New York Show with 

 four hundred and eighty-one specimens on exhibition in 1905. 

 More than was ever before shown of any one variety in the 

 largest exhibition in America, and competition was so keen that 

 scores of birds that would ordinarily be in the winning could 

 not be considered. Specimens changed hands at splendid 

 prices. I myself have refused $200. for a male, while I have 



known of a cock bird for which $500. was refused. This speaks 

 of not only the interest and enthusiasm of the breeders and 

 exhibitors of this breed, but also that while a solid colored bird, 

 to breed it "up to the minute" means that one has no easy task. 

 It also demonstrates that as the individual specimens have im- 

 proved, the fancier has also insisted that the standard require- 

 ments also be moved forward so that the lines of beauty are 

 continually being filled out and broader, richer colored birds 

 have to be produced if one would win with them. 



The breed is truly an American variety, in as much as for 

 years they were bred only in a small way in other countries. 

 Today this is changed, calls come from every country, and the 

 White Wyandottes have made a place for themselves with our 



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FIRST PR1Z& HEN. HEW YORK •1907- 

 ARTHUR G,DU5ToN,5o FRAMINQHAM.MASS 

 OWMER. AUD BREeDE-R--- 



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WHITE WYANDOTTE HEN 



One of the finest White Wyandottes that ever appeared at Madison Square 

 Garden show, was Arthur G. Duston's (South Framingham, Mass.) first prize- 

 winning hen. There is Standard finish to her fine head, back and tail and 

 modern show style in the way she is posed on her short, well set legs. 



friends in England, Germany, South America, South Africa, 

 New Zealand and Australia. In fact, the list is too long to con- 

 tinue for I have shipped stock to practically every foreign 

 country. Australia seems to be taking the lead in the interest 

 of American-bred White Wyandottes, with an especially strong 

 interest in England. 



With the unpl-ecedented interest taken the past few years 

 in this practical breed it seems almost impossible that it should 

 continue to increase in popularity and yet there are many many 

 sections of the country that have yet to find breeders who are 

 handling the White Wyandottes, and the thousands who annu- 

 ally are discarding other varieties, together with hosts in all 

 parts of the country becoming interested in them miakes a grow- 



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