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a product so costly until he is privileged to use the specimen in 

 the line of life that he is building"; until liis line of breeding is so 

 well developed that a single liird is only an expression of the tend- 

 encies in that line and the line itself can go on and on producing 

 individuals of equal symmetry of form and perfection of feather. 



While the originators could ofifer no stock for sale in the spring 

 of 1896, surplus birds began to leave their yards later on. and these 

 birds were so well bred, the foundation had been so well laid, that 

 the sales-stock reproduced itself in line order, and by 1901 the variety 

 was so well distributed and the birds produced were so true to type 

 and color that the Partridge Wyandotte was accorded recognition 

 as a Standardbred. 



The originators. Partridge Wyandottes were developed simulta- 

 neously in the east and in the west. Discussion on the priority of 

 origin has resulted in giving precedence to neither the eastern nor 

 the western strain. The "facts" and "dates" on origin as recorded 

 in some treatises on the variety are errors, and after a survey of all 

 current material on the subject, we have found it necessary to go 

 back to original sources 



and write anew the early 



history of the origin of 



this variety. 



George H. Bracken- 

 bury of New York state 



conceived the idea of a 



penciled Wyandotte, and 



in 1889 made his first 



crosses with the idea of 



producing such a fowl. 



The first mating was a 



Golden Laced Wyandotte 



male to a Partridge Co- 

 chin female. This mating 



produced a few pullets 



with double lacings. One 



of these double - laced 



pullets was mated back 



to her Golden Wyan- 

 dotte sire in 1890. In 



the year 1891 Golden 



Penciled Hamburg blood 



was introduced, also ad- 

 ditional Partridge Cochin 



blood. Byron D. Sarr, 



a Cochin breeder, also 



of New York State, be- 



First prize Partridge Wyandotte cock, Michigan 

 State Fair, 1920. Hatched May 4, 1919; great- 

 grandson of "Sunbrier" and carries 875^% of the 

 blood of Sunbrier. Bred by T. W. Schoen, Sunbrier 

 Farms, Michigan, Photo taken when a cockerel. 



