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history' have been careful to point out that they can do little more 

 than repeat the traditions and probable facts as told by the earliest 

 authorities. 



It is supposed that the foundation crosses were made as early as 

 1864 to 1866. Little attention was paid to them prior to 1870. It 

 was in that year that John P. Ray, Hemlock, New York, secured a 

 setting of eggs from Edward Bronson, also of New York state. Bron- 

 son, according to Ray, had crossed Silver Seabrights, which were 

 not bantams, but large laced fowls, with large black and yellow 



Silver Wyandottes as Portrayed by F. L. Sewell About 1900. 



Asiatics. H. M. Doubleday of New York was also breeding the large 

 Silver Seabrights at that time. 



Doubleday's birds were both silver-laced and golden-laced. They 

 were clean legged and feather legged. Some had single combs and 

 others rose combs. He preferred those that were silver-laced and 

 carried rose combs, and for some little time bred those with feathers 

 on their legs, "for they were the best birds as to shape and color." 



In a bulletin on "The Wyandotte" written by T. F. McGrew and 

 published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Ray is credited with 

 having crossed a Silver Sebright bantam male on a yellow Asiatic 

 hen, thus producing what he called Sebright Cochins. But, in 1904, 



