THE CAMPINES 



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The majority of Campine fanciers have decided that 

 at present the Standard barring on the body should be 

 of black bais, four times the width of the white bars. 

 No doubt this is the safest plan at the present period 

 of Campine history. The gray in the black bar is most 

 easily obliterated by this extreme dark plumage. When 

 the plumage can be bred to show clear black and pure 

 white, the temptation will not be so great for such an 

 over-dose of the dark color, and with a lighter body 

 plumage it will be more possible to obtain purer color 

 in the much desired silver-white hackle. 



On specimens possessing bars of absolute black 

 (greenish glossy black) without a trace of any sooty 

 gray admixture and with bars of pure white, unspotted 

 by gray flecks, it will be found that even three times as 

 much black as white gives us a sensationally bright 

 plumage of undisputed beauty and with such a body 

 plumage almost spotless hackles are possible. Cockerel 

 No. 4 in Group I is an example of this type, one that 

 is an unmistakable gem seen either close at hand in 

 the show pen or at some distance. Fanciers of the 



Wyandotte remember that their favorites went through 

 a period when very dark plumage was fashionable and 

 the reason for it was that gray was easily obliterated, 

 especially in the first year's plumage. Later when gray 

 could be more successfully bred out, the brighter, clearer, 

 more plainly observed plumage proved to be the most 

 valued. This may prove to be the history of the Cam- 

 pine and is worth keeping in mind by those who expect 

 to make the most of the breed in the future. 



After serious imperfections of shape, this gray in 

 the plumage is one of the first defects to be criticised 

 by exacting admirers of the breed. Judges will not tol- 

 erate it any more than they will eyes that are not typical 

 of the breed in color, or "hackled" plumage. These 

 three defects are in the class of blemishes that are apt 

 to disqualify in good competition. Gray in the plumage 

 is the most common color defect in the breed today and 

 nothing more surely sets a bird outside of high-priced 

 exhibition quality breeding stock. On farms where the 

 production of eggs for market is the sole aim — where 

 eggs sell for cents instead of dollars — such little fine 



Group II---N0. 7 is a Jones-Kennedy hen that won first at Madison Square Garden, December, 1911 Afterwards 

 she contributed her strong breeding qualities to the yards of J, Fred N. Kennedy, Birch Cliff, Ontario No 8— A choice 

 ^^'^,?*r.?t° '■,1i'5 o^^y^' 1"°^ the yards of Dr. J. H. Prudhomme, Thurmont, Md., which was first at New' York Fair, New 

 York City 1913. No 9— A wonderfully clear colored pullet bred by Frank E. Bering, proprietor The Willows Farm 

 ^°"iv*i'i^^"^'J"''- "^l?^"/ of first at Chicago, December, 1913. No. 10 is a much admired pullet wiSSer of Trstpr^™e 

 at Madison Square Garden, New York, December, 1910, owned by M. R. Jacobus, Ridgefield, N. J. She is of the tvne 

 recommended by Mr. Jacobus as particularly strong for egg production. The uniformity of barring and almost ner- 

 fectly curved breast line are among this pullet's unusually strong breeding and show points. Mr. jtcobus has always 

 placed egg production first of all qualities in his Campines. No. 10 and No. 12 are types from his yards that he points 

 to particularly as illustrating the egg laying type. No. 12 being from his first prize Madison Square Garden exhibi- 

 tion pen, December 1913 No. 11 is a type of Jones-Kennedy pullet favored for breeding the highest class exMbition 

 females m the yards of J. Fred N. Kennedy, Birch Cliff, Ontario.— F. L. Sewell s si i-iass exniDUion 



