COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE.S. 



The Latest Variety of this Popular Breed to be Recognized by the Standard- 

 One of the Most Popular Varieties Ever Perfected. 



HEN, by accident, the blood of our royal 

 Light Brahmas was mingled with that o( 

 America's greatest middleweight fowl — 

 the Wyandotte — there was little thought 

 that this cross was the foundation for 

 one of the best as well as one of the 

 handsomest of the Wyandotte tribe. The 

 commercial breeder saw and admired 

 this middleweight breed with its Brahma 

 markings without giving a thought to its 

 future as a fancy fowl. Its true worth to them was its 

 market value as a broiler or roaster, and its wonderful 

 winter egg yield, and in these particulars the Columbian 

 Wyandotte of today is not excelled by any middleweight 

 breed. 



From these experiments, made by some of the best 

 breeders of Brahmas and Wyandottes, and assisted by the 

 blood of the truest thoroughbred fowl in our American 

 Standard — Light Brahma — such improvement was made 

 that in three years a large per cent, were breeding free 

 from disqualiflcatiqns, and the color of neck, wing and tail 

 was so close a resemblance to the Brahmas that a class 

 was made for them in our large exhibitions. When these 

 birds first made their appearance in the shows the poultry 

 editors from all sections of the country began to make 

 notes of them, and the result was that more fanciers took 

 them up, and the improvement that has been made in the 

 past two years is something marvelous. 



I have watched the rapid advancement of the Colum- 

 bians and noted with interest the class of fanciers that is 



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Fig. 69. 

 STANDARD COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE MALE. 



But the fanciers saw more in them than their com- 

 mercial value. Crude as the first cross showed them, due 

 largely to inferior birds of both breeds being used, a foun- 

 dation was laid to build upon, and the best of these crosses 

 were selected for an experiment. 



breeding them. This list is composed of the best,informed 

 poultrymen in America — men who are not led astray by 

 every passing fad, but who have been first to see the merits 

 in every good breed that has become prominent in the last 

 twenty-five years. 



