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THE CAM PINES 



in Hamburgh, while in Campines the Standard calls for 

 the iris to be dark brown and the pupil black. 



As a first working basis the English Campine 

 Club's Standard was accepted by the American Cam- 

 pine Club. The first of the "serious defects for 

 which birds should be passed" is: "Even barring, 

 i. e., the white being equal in width to the black." 

 The Campine's black bars should be "three times 

 the width of the ground color" or white. The Stand- 

 ard for the penciled Hamburgs reads; "White (with) 

 parallel bars of greenish black." There is a gen- 

 eral resemblance between the Silver Campines and 

 Braekels of Belgium and the Silver Penciled Hamburgs, 

 and it is possible and probable that they have common 

 ancestors, but the English Campine Club, in 1908, speci- 



Fig. 



A. — English hen feathered 

 type of Campine. 



Fig-. B — Belgiiu 

 showing -white 

 sickles. 



fied a width for the black bar and this was done to make 

 a definite, a positive standard for the English Campine 

 and to separate it for all time to come from the Ham- 

 burg and its barring of equal width. Hamburg crossing 

 never-the-less continues and at the last meeting of the 

 English Club at the Crystal Palace, a recommendation 

 was proposed to "keep to the herring-bone markings in- 

 stead of the straight ring barring of the Hamburgs." 



The black of the Campine bar should be greenish 

 black — the more lustre the better. Perhaps, we shall 

 never vie with the Englislj in the production of greenish 

 black. The English Black Orpingtons have a lustre not 

 equaled by American bred birds, just as the deep green 

 foliage of the trees and the green grass of England is 

 not to be surpassed. It must be the climate. The Eng- 

 lish birds that have been shown in America have been 

 marvels of richness of color. The secondary bar, that 

 is the faint gray or brown pencil in the black bar is 

 being eliminated. The green-velvet black with the pure 

 white bar running across, as seen in the plumage of the 

 Standard birds is most attractive. 



There is something especially delicate and pretty 

 about a Campine pullet. We are fond of their big, dark 

 eyes, silvery white hackles, and black and white colored 

 plumage. Their clean and fine boned shanks are in har- 

 mony with the nice proportions of body and ease of 



carriage and the blue shank color matches well with the 

 plumage. 



In the males of this new English type the feathering 

 has been like that of the females, the long saddle hang- 

 ers and flowing sickles being absent. With the barred 

 back, wing bow and wing bay in the males, it was nec- 

 essary to breed hen feathered males and make them 

 standard. It has been the aim to breed as much cock 

 plumage, i. e., as long feathers in the saddle and as much 

 tail coverings on the tail, as possible. It is now ex- 

 pected that the two main sickle feathers should extend 

 beyond the main tail feathers. One thing common to 

 all hen-feathered males is their high tail, and it has been 

 a defect in the Campines. See Fig. A. What beautiful 

 tails, however, may be had in the English type Silver 

 Campine males is illustrated in the 

 cockerel shown on page 46. This was 

 the 1st cockerel at the Madison 

 Square Garden Show, December, 

 1913. 



After a sojourn of several months 

 in Europe, in 1911, in which time he 

 visited Germany, France, Belgium, 

 Holland and England, Artist A. O. 

 Schilling returned to America par- 

 tial to the original Belgian type, that 

 is, he preferred the birds having long 

 white saddle hangers, white shoulder 

 on the wings, etc. See Fig. B. At 

 the Pittsburg Show that winter he 

 said to us: "I prefer the silvery-white 

 tops. I would consider the silver- 

 topped male the more beautiful of 

 the two, in form especially. Nature 

 didn't intend the male to be colored 

 and feathered like the female. The 

 hen feathered male is higher in tail 

 and less symmetrical. He came as 

 a sport- originally and I object to his 

 femininity." Since that time Mr. 

 Schilling has become one of the most enthusiastic ad- 

 mirers of the English type, and has been called upon to 

 place the awards in this variety at the Chicago Show. 



Mating Silver Campines 



Some of the English type males come with a few 

 white saddle feathers. Such birds are often faked for 

 show, the white feathers being plucked. Such a cock- 

 erel usually has a clear white hackle, and according to 

 the English view, should be bred for the production of 

 beautiful pullets. In breeding. Rev. E. Lewis Jones, 

 secretary of the English Campine Club, gave us the fol- 

 lowing directions: 



"For cockerels mate a male with excellent barring 

 and plenty of sheen, to quite dark colored hens, free 

 from the secondary bar. For pullets mate a male with a 

 regular, even barring, the white bar being nearly as wide 

 as the black, and a bird showing some white feathers in 

 saddle. He should be mated to Standard colored 

 females." 



Golden Campines 



This is the most distinctive variety that has been 

 seen in America in a decade. It has a black and golden- 

 bay bar — a combination that no American breeder, 

 though he try ever so hard, had been able to make. 



Lj pe of Campine 

 top and flo-wing- 



