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THE CAMPINES 



the untrained eye, although he may not be able to dis- 

 cover the cause of the awkwardness in the specimen. 



With beauty in form or proportion will be combined 

 those practical qualities for which most poultry keepers 

 maintain their flocks of hens. With irregularity of form 

 may be found unreliability in the qualities that should 

 make the bird profitable. Those who keep poultry for 

 profit have learned by expensive experience to avoid 

 freaks and extravagant extremes. 



The Campine form impresses the eye of an old poul- 

 try keeper as being full of common-sense hen values — 

 of having the beauties of form that make little hens 

 pay big profits. 



There is a gamey fineness of bone and flesh with an 

 apparent minimum of waste. When handled, one re- 

 alizes their plumpness in every section and that the 

 breast is broad for a bird of its size. There is a busy 

 sprightliness of action that means that nothing will es- 

 cape them that can be turned to account for their liveli- 



hood and productiveness. These points of beauty in 

 form and action are possessions of genuine value, es- 

 pecially when found in a fowl possessing interesting 

 plumage. 



The Plumage of the Campine 



The rounded surface of the Campine's plump form 

 present a most advantageous model over which to dis- 

 play plumage of sharply contrasted bars of color. When 

 the Campine plumage is clear, strong, sharp and ar- 

 ranged in a pattern that presents a color scheme that 

 is plain to the eye; when the birds move at a little dis- 

 tance where one can observe them as they feed about 

 their attendant, an ideal in plumage is secured that ex- 

 hibits truly practical beauty — a beauty that serves the 

 purpose of making the bird charming to every lover of 

 feathered life. The color arrangement of the barred 

 plumage must possess great regularity in order to be 

 most attractive. 



Group I— Upper row No. 1 is a typical Jones-Kennedy cockerel, winner of first at Madison Square Garden New 

 ^o^'^' December 1911. This bird has distinguished himself as a breeder in the yards of J. Fred NKennldy Birch 

 Cliff, Ontario. No. 2 is one of the originators of the "Green Sheen" strain, imported bv Prank >TTeriT,,i nrn 

 prietor of The Willows Farm, South Bend, Ind He is a cock bird and has d'enS"^ black bars aSd wbnferfSl g?een 

 sheen. No. 3 is a very plump, full-bodied, well-matured cockerel that made a striking success at tireea?[v autumn 

 shows of 1913, owned by Dr. J. H. Prudhomme, Thurmont, Md. No. 4 is a Jones-KeSy cockerel of bS^tiful 

 shape and extraordinary clear color, showing dec ded' contrast in the black and white barring, with a neck hacWe 

 of rare purity. No. 5 was a first prize cockerel at Madison Square Garden, December 31 1912-Januarv 4 iqi>! 

 ?r??'^i^T,^''"^''^"',? Farms, Brighton, N. Y No. 6 was a first prize cockerel at Madison Square Gardl7 December 

 26-31, 1913, owned by C. F. Rankin, proprietor Schenley Heights Poultry Farm, Pittsburg, Pa.— F L Sewell 



