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Fig. 400. Buff Plymouth Rock hen 



(Photograph from owner, J. A. Ashhne, 



Fitchburg, Massachusetts) 



difference ever actually existed, 

 it has long since disappeared. 

 The color needs no special 

 description. 



Bttjf Plymouth Rocks. As 

 first shown. Buff Plymouth 

 Rocks were Rhode Island 

 Reds of light shade and with 

 single combs, selected from 

 farm flocks in the district 

 where the Rhode Island Red 

 had become the common fowl. 

 This was in 1890, when Buff 

 Leghorns were being intro- 

 duced to Americans and the 

 "craze" for buff color was 

 beginning. This Rhode Island 

 Red stock was the foundation for some of the early strains of 

 Buff Rocks, but seems to have had much less influence on the 

 variety as a whole 

 than the crosses of 

 Asiatic and Mediter- 

 ranean races which 

 were made to produce 

 it directly. The Buff 

 Cochin with White 

 Plymouth Rock or 

 Buff Leghorn gave the 

 best results. White 

 Leghorn and Buff Co- 

 chin were also used. 

 To some extent the 

 Bucks County Fowl 

 and the single-combed 

 specimens of the Buff 

 Wyandotte entered in- 

 to the making of the y\g. 401. Buff Plymouth Rock cock. (Photograph 

 race. Like the other by Graham) 



