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THE ORPINGTONS 



varieties. The rest of the varieties of Orpingtons that 

 have been placed on the market have never proven gen- 

 erally popular and no concerted action has been taken to 

 get any of them admitted to the Standard. Each one of 

 the varieties has been made up of different blood lines 

 and no two varieties naturally have exactly the same 

 type. There are specimens in each of the varieties that 

 approach very closely to the best of the Blacks in type 

 but they are not plentiful, and a great many of the leading 

 Orpington breeders feel that the Standard requirements 

 have been made too stringent for the future good of the 

 Buflf and White varieties, and for that reason the present 

 Standard was a little modified at the Niagara Falls, and 

 St. Louis meetings of the American Poultry Association 

 and the new Standard will have an ideal picture more 

 normal and nearer the true ideal for the average Or- 

 pington. 



With few exceptions the extremely large, low down 

 birds have not been remarkably good layers, whether 



their color has been black, bufif or white. The females a 

 trifle higher on legs, with good long bodies and plenty 

 of depth, have made the producers, and this is the type 

 that is becoming more and more popular as time goes on. 

 The Bufifs and the Whites are the most popular varieties 

 and probably always will be, and it is not right to make 

 them suflfer because they were not bred from the same 

 sources as were the Blacks. 



There is no better utility fowl today than the Or- 

 pington. There is no handsomer fowl, or a fowl that is 

 more fascinating for the gentleman fancier or the pains- 

 taking breeder, and their future is absolutely safe when 

 bred along the conservative lines required under the new 

 Standard. The writer predicts that their present pop- 

 ularity is almost nothing to what they will attain as time 

 goes -on'and -that -th-e bird'S'the-msel-ves have^" the "intrinsic 

 merit to hold their place as. one of the four leading breeds 

 of America. 



E>»GLISH TYPE WHITE ORPINGTONS. 1908 



