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THE CAMPINES 



there is no male bird (the determining factor) of the 

 Gold-pencilled Hamburgh variety which possesses the 

 requisite characteristics to produce our type of cockerel. 

 We believe that a certain pencilled Hamburgh 

 breeder has conducted almost similar experiments with 

 his varieties, but we have not examined any of his 

 results. 



The Series of Matings Which Produced the English- 

 Type Gold Campine At Heyope Rectory 



(a) The first experiment made was the crossing of 

 a Gold Campine cock with a Silver hen. The result of 

 this mating was disappointing — the cockerels were all 

 Silvers of the Belgian type, the females all Gold. Next 

 year one of these Silver cockerels was mated with the 

 Gold pullets, his sisters. 



(b) This pen produced Gold and Silver cockerels. 

 Gold and Silver pullets; but the cockerels were all of the 

 Belgian type. Clearly an English-type Gold male was 

 not to be produced in this fashion, and two years' work 

 had given no result. 



(c) The same season, however, an English-type 

 Silver male — an excellent breeder, sire of several Palace 

 winners — was mated with pure Gold hens of best mark- 

 ings and type obtainable. The chickens from this mat- 

 ing were most vigorous, and were all reared to maturity. 

 But again an impasse seemed to have been reached; 

 for to all appearance both cockerels and pullets were 

 pure Silver. The cockerels were , all well-marked birds 

 of English type — not a Belgian saddle-hackle feather 

 among them. 



The next step seemed to be the mating together of 

 these Silver cross-breds in the hope of producing a Gold 

 male in the next generation. But at this stage in the 

 experiment it was observed that, so far, the results ob- 

 tained were exactly parallel with those obtained by 

 Messrs. Doncaster and Raynor in crosses made between 

 two specimens of the Currant Moth — Abraxas Gross- 

 ulariata and its variety, Laticolor — (c) a male gross- 

 ularia'ta moth crossed with a female alticolor produced 

 only grossulariata — both male and female, just as the 

 Silver male and Golden female gave all Silver chickens. 



The first English-type Camplnes were imported to America in 1907 by M. R Jacobus Rldeeflelfl -NTpw 

 Jersey, and the first exhibits at the Madison Square Garden, New York, Show were made bv' Mr TaTnhn'a whn 

 filled the classes with his Camplnes, although at that time there was no prize money to be won Mr Taro^ns 

 exhibited Campine eggs in the dressed poultry and egg section of the Boston Show, 1910 and that vear nlsr. In 

 1911. 1912, 1913 and 1914 won first prize for the whitest dozen of white shelled eggs. He ^as the foSnder and 

 since Its organization, has been the efficient secretary of the American Campine Club. To him of all Americans 

 belongs the credit for the great strides in popularity that the Campine has taken, for he has been the cSmolne's 

 greatest champion. Being a man of independent means, the opportunity to "cash in" on this new hree,i ?i5 %,«+ 

 take hold of -Mr. Jacobus. He steadfastly refused to meet the demand by importing birds and senlna- them ni e?2« 

 from them, knowing full well that the stock was not acclimated to conditions In this country and tha?' a /en? 

 ration or two of breeding was necessary to fit them to their new environment. Again after orlenatinV hi-^wn 

 strain of Golden Campines, he declined to sell eggs for hatching until he had improved the egg aualitifs tn tTe 

 Silver Campine Standard, ^^ uuaiiiies lo tne 



