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THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



a long and vigorous controversy between M. S. Gardner of New York, 

 who championed double mating and Theo. Hewes of Indiana, who de- 

 fended Standard mating. Gardnei had the winners at the great New 

 York show to back up his positior that the best Barred Rocks were 

 produced by separate cockerel and pullet matings, while Hewes was at 

 a disadvantage when it came to pointing out specific evidence of high 

 cjuality Barred Rocks being produced by single mating. All argument 

 has since been abandoned, one of the old advocates of single mating, 

 D. T. Heimlich of Illinois, writing in 1919, that after having fought for 



This illustration shows what appear to be feathers from a pullet- 

 bred Barred Plymouth Rock male. The fact is that these feathers are 

 from a cockerel-bred male and the photographer's plate was printed in 

 the negative in order to show that the pullet-bred color-type in Barred 

 Rock males is the exact reverse of the cockerel-lsred color-type. Photo 

 by courtesy L. A. Stahmer. 



single mating as the correct way to breed the variety, he had found, 

 after twenty-five years, that "the results did not measure up to what 

 was being done by those who practiced double mating." The fact is 

 that the probable value of single mating has declined since 1901, when 

 Gardner in making a reply to Hewes, cited the fact that the 1st pullet 

 at Chicago, shown by D. F. Palmer, and the 1st cockerel at Chicago, 

 shown by Webb, had been produced by double mating, Mr. Webb 

 showing no pullets equal to his cockerel, or Mr. Palmer getting a 



