Why We Are Breeding Golden Campines 



The Foundation Was Laid by the Parchnse of a Great Hen and the Importation of a Male— The Goldens Arc the 



Best Variety by Test— The English Improved the Campines and it Now Rests With the American 



Breeder io Add the •'Fiuishinfi Touches"— Americans Will Do Better to Buy at 



Home and Then Insist on Gettinii American Bred Birds 



By A. A. Carver, Seville, Ohio 



THE wonderful popularity of the Campine in Eng- 

 land and Belgium, their spectacular entry into 

 America, the beautiful cuts in the American jour- 

 nals, caused the writer to suggest to his wife that she 

 take up the breeding of Campines in a small way. We 

 talked the matter over at divers times. We would buy 

 the best for our foundation and work for material ratner 

 than pecuniary results. 



We would see how near perfection we could breed 

 them and note their improvement year by year. Coming 

 from a country of ■ quiet, 

 careful, painstaking peo- 

 ple, into a hurley-burley 

 country running mad with 

 commercialism, these beau- 

 ties would need real true 

 friends who would place 

 them above the dollar — 

 friends who would give 

 them homes and mate 

 them in a small way, that 

 their blood might flow out 

 to beautify and make bet- 

 ter their kin in the com- 

 mercial world. With this 

 thought paramount in our 

 minds, the taking of a few 

 of these beautiful birds and 

 breeding them up to the 

 highest possible standard, 

 filled us with enthusiasm 

 and brought into our hearts 

 new hopes and pleasures 

 that only come to the real 

 true fancier. 



Forthwith letters were 

 fluttering hither and thither 

 in quest of Golden Cam- 

 pines; England, Canada, 

 the East. We were living 

 the past over again. We 

 learned of a great Golden 

 Campine hen that was be- 

 ing exhibited at the Cleve- 

 land Show. She was re- 

 ported as being the best 

 seen on this side of the 

 water. We were told by 

 an old Barred Rock 

 breeder who has been rais- 



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It is only a few years since It was a rare thing to 

 find a hen feathered Golden Campine male, but today 

 we see specimens at leading: shows that approach the 

 best Slivers In feather and marltlngs. Madison Square 

 Garden Show had an excellent class of Goldens In the 

 season of 1913-14, and among them were some speci- 

 mens that were truly wonders for clear barring of 

 rich golden bay over a glossy black ground color. The 

 cock shown above was winner of first prize. He was 

 a remarkable specimen in color, having a splendid 

 barred back and wing, also a well marked breast, with 

 barring that extended well up on the throat, while his 

 sickle feathers gave, strong indicatio.ns of barring their 

 entire length. — A. O. Schilling. 



The "Empress" we have named her, being the mother 

 of our elect, the first pen pullets, Chicago. 



We must have a male bird her equal, and as none 

 could be found this side of the water, we imported 

 direct from Rev. E. Lewis Jones, her mate, who has 

 since won 1st in the pen at the Chicago Coliseum Show, 

 and one of the best ever shown in America. This bird 

 is now mated to Empress and her daughters. 



It is now May 10th and we have cockerels and pul- 

 lets alinost large enough to exhibit; early spring hatched 



chicks, showing the won- 

 derful growth and vitality 

 of the Goldens when prop- 

 erly bred and mated. As 

 regarding fast growers, 

 heavy layers of large mar- 

 ketable eggs, beautiful 

 plumage and type, we place 

 the Goldens first of the 

 Campines, and as soon as 

 they become better known, 

 we believe, they will rank 

 with the Campines as 

 White I^cghorns do in 

 I^eghorndom. 



We experimented with 

 Silvers the first year, care- 

 fully comparing thein with 

 Goldens. Now Carver's 

 Red Farms breed only the 

 latter. To our poultry 

 friends who are unac- 

 quainted with Campines, we 

 say, compare them, for 

 they are winners and will 

 stand the test. 



The Golden Campines 

 have proven extraordinary 

 layers with us of large 

 uniform white eggs, with 

 the exception of possibly- 

 three or four hens in our 

 matings showing tinted 

 eggs. By careful selection 

 and restriction we will soon 

 eliminate this from the 

 Goldens. This is a feat- 

 ure, I think, the English 

 and Belgian fanciers have 

 neglected, and which the 



ing sensational Rocks for many years, that a great fe- American fancier will quickly weed out. It seems that the 

 male mated to an inferior male brought better results Campine has iinproved as it migrated and it is up to the 



than a superior male to an inferior female (and to breed 

 the sensational we must mate the best to the best.) bo 

 this great Golden Campine hen became our property, 

 and is now living amid her daughters and grand-daugh- 

 ters in the Campine hennery on Carver's Red Farms. 



fanciers of this countrjf to put the finishing touches to its 

 beauty and usefulness, by breeding for better type and 

 eggs, since its laying qualities will be hard to improve, as 

 well as its beautiful plumage. The Golden Campines 

 owe much to their noted English friend, Rev. E. Lewis 



