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up his position as America's premier breeder of Brown Leghorn 

 females and took up Silver Penciled RocUs in earnest. 



This cross, on the face of it, would be accepted by any experienced 

 poultry breeder as likely to produce just about what was wanted; and 

 after visiting Ixock Hill Poultry Parm in the fall of 1907, the year the 

 variety was admitted to the Standard, and seeing the birds as they 

 grew there, as well as inspecting selected specimens of this flock as 

 exhibited in the shows, we are firmly of the opinion that Dorking 



Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks, by A. O. Schilling. 



blood existed in this fine strain, and believe that Corey must have 

 amalgamated some blood of the so-called third line of breeding with 

 the original McGrew-Porsyth stock which he purchased. 



Quality of the Rock Hill stock. Corey had at Rock Hill Farm, on 

 the Hudson, in 1907, several pens of big, strong hens that were the 

 equal in every way of big, husky Barred Rock females. In writing 

 of the stock at that time, we said: 



Rock Hill Poultry Farm comes down the hill to meet the road. The fowl and 

 buildings arc scattered over the rocky slope of the hill. The youngsters (White 

 Leghorns, White Rocks, White Wyandottes and Silver Plymouth Rocks) were 

 wild, for they liad roamed through the brush and over the rocks all summer. The 

 Silver Rocks seemed to be the tamest. We took quite a fancy to the youngsters, 

 and the old birds, too, for they seemed to us the prettiest of all the sorts of fowl 

 bred there. We are glad that the American Poultry Association has accepted the 

 Silver Plymouth Rock as a thoroughbred. No variety of the Plymouth Rock race 

 that has been admitted to the Standard has been more finished at the time of its 



