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POULTRY CULTURE 



Fig. 405. Silver-Laced Wyandotte 



hen, owned by J. C. Patterson, 



Monsey, New York. (Photograph 



by SchilHng) 



"American Sebright." With 

 statement of the develop- 

 ment of the breed is simph- 

 fied by applying the present 

 name to it at all stages. 



The Silver-Laced Wyan- 

 dotte. Accounts of the ori- 

 gin of this variety are very 

 unsatisfactory ; the most cir- 

 cumstantial of them credits 

 a Mr. Ray, of Hemlock 

 Lake, New York, with pro- 

 ducing, about 1 868-1 869, 

 from a cross of Silver Se- 

 bright Bantam and Yellow 

 Chittagong (or Buff Cochin), 

 fowls which he called Se- 

 bright Cochins, which be- 

 came the foundation stock 

 of this variety. These birds 



The Wyandottes. The popu- 

 larity of the Barred Plymouth Rock 

 led to a search for, and to the de- 

 velopment of, another breed even 

 earlier than the development of 

 the white variety of the Plymouth 

 Rock. The ideal of the Barred 

 Plymouth Rock was definitely fixed 

 from the beginning of the history 

 of the breed. Not so, apparently, 

 was the ideal of the first of the 

 Wyandottes, — a name conferred 

 on them in 1883, when they were 

 admitted to the American Stand- 

 ard. Prior to that time fowls of 

 the general-purpose type with rose 

 combs went by a number of names, 

 the most familiar of which was 

 this explanation to show the fact, the 



Fig. 406. Silver-Laced Wyandotte cock, 



owned by J. C. Patterson. (Photograph 



by Schilling) 



