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pullet and pen shown by one exhibitor. The subsequent year, Chicago, 

 January 20 to 25, 1902, Bennett came back stronger than before and 

 swept the deck of all lirst prizes, winning on his Buff Plymouth Rocks 

 1, 2, 3, 5 cocks; 1, 2, 3, 4 hens; 1, 2, 3 cockerels; 1, 4, 5 pullets; 1, 2, 4 

 pen, and the $100 silver cup for the best display of any variety in 

 the show. 



Bennett's reputation had permeated the outer rim of Buff Rock 

 circles as a result of his big win at the club show in Chicago, 1901, 

 and he was engaged to judge the class at Boston, January, 1902. 

 There were lined up 172 of the best Buff Rocks that the country 

 could produce. \\'. H. Higgins, Orange, Massachusetts, won 1st 

 cockerel on a bird that was a marvel for color and a worthy suc- 

 cessor to his famous cockerel Wonder, which won 1st at Boston, 

 January, 1900. Frank G. Bean, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, won 1st 

 and gold special on pullet in a class of sixty-tive at this Boston siiow 

 under Bennett. 



Delano and Denny. Other breeders have come into prominence in 

 the east, including C. L. Pensyl, W. H. Overbaugh, George Fox, 

 E. H. Litchenwalter, John W. Foley, Sam Harter. and Vierheller 

 Brothers of Pennsylvania; F. J. Nutting, Charles E. ColBn, Maurice F. 

 Delano and A. C. Hawkins of New England; and H. E. Benedict, 

 D. S. Riker and W. C. Denny of New York. 



Delano made his reputation as a Buff Rock breeder. Leaving 

 Connecticut as a young man, he took the position of poultryman 

 at Millville Farm in southern New Jersey. At the Boston show, 

 Januarj', 1903, Millville won on Buff Plymouth Rocks 1, 2, 3 cocks; 

 1, 3 hens; 1 cockerel, and 2. 3 pullets. During the show Delano sold 

 the 1st prize cockerel to Edgar A. Weimer, proprietor of Exmoor 

 Farms, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, for $300, probably the highest price 

 ever received for a Standardbred fowl up to that time. Delano's 

 reputation was now made, and his experience in breeding buff color 

 was a big asset to him when '\\'iniam Barry Owen established Owen 

 Farms, brought over the Buff Orpingtons from England, and put 

 Delano in charge. 



W. C. Denny grew up with Buff Plj'mouth Rocks. As a mere 

 lad he made his start with them in 1892. He helped to organize the 

 American Buff Plymouth Rock Club and was its first secretary. At 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904, he judged the 

 Buff Rock classes. For ten successive years, up until about 1915, he 

 judged the class at the Madison Square Garden Show, New York. 

 Denny became one of the half dozen best known poultry judges in 

 the L^nited States, traveling as far as the Pacific slope to officiate at 

 exhibitions; his popularity was universal, and a kid's hobbjf developed 

 into a man's size job. 



Baker's Buff Plymouth Rocks. Several western breeders have 

 come into the limelight since 1900, including I. M. Ashjeld, George 

 Hamm, C. A. Morton, C. H. Barnes and S. D. Lapham; but C. R. 



