138 THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



White Javas, were presented for admission to the Standard of Per- 

 fection. Each of these new varieties had white plumage and yellow 

 shanks, so only one of them could be admitted to the Standard 

 with these breed characteristics. Preference was given to the White 

 Plymouth Rock. 



The Dirigo was virtually a strain of White Rocks of Maine origin 

 rather than a new breed, and the name was now speedily forgotten. 

 The majority of the White Java likewise disappeared by turning into 

 White, Plymouth Rocks over night. While "White Javas" were 

 admitted to the Standard at the same Indianapolis meeting, the Stand- 

 ard birds were required to have willow legs, a character that few of 

 the specimens possessed; and the "White Java" was eventually 

 dropped from the Standard. 



U. R. Fishel a leading breeder. The career of the White Plymouth 

 Rock has been marked by steadiness, and while some varieties have 

 been boomed and suffered from over-appreciation, and, later, neglect, 

 the White Plymouth Rock has enjoyed a natural, healthy growth in 

 popularity. While as much as $500 has been paid foT a single male, 

 and $900 for a pen, there has been a year-after-year demand for typical 

 females of good substarice at $S to $25, and for males of equal quality 

 at $10 to $50 each. 



In producing fowls of this sort, the breeding of no variety of the 

 American class has shown greater regularity, and this fowl has been 

 the one on which notable business successes have been built, par- 

 ticularly the business success of U. R. Fishel, whose White Plymouth 

 Rock farm covers 120 acres of blue grass country at Hope in southern 

 Indiana. 



It is natural that great credit should be attached to the, name of 

 Frost for in every great movement much fame and credit are attached 

 to the individual who began it. The name of Columbus, the dis- 

 coverer, is linked with everlasting fidelity with that of America; but 

 when the institutions of America are reviewed, the names of those 

 who struggled, endured and established, are worthy of reverence also. 

 So it is in the varieties of poultry; the originators are remembered 

 and quoted, but those who "reach the goal" as breeders of the varie- 

 ties are worthy of the highest praise. 



No mention of White Plymouth Rocks is therefore complete with- 

 out reference to U. R. Fishel, a breeder whose own name is synony- 

 mous with that of the variety he breeds, made so by him having been 

 that variety's greatest champion. Through bright days and dark, 

 through the sunshine and storms of a quarter century, U. R. Fishel 

 has proclaimed the merits of the White Plymouth Rock fowl. He 

 has distributed confidence in the variety and confidence is the life 

 of trade, the architect and builder of good will. Confidence, well 

 founded, is the guarantee of permanence. 



Fishel came into prominence at the Chicago show of January, 

 1901, where he won every 1st prize but one. He had previously won 



