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POULTRY CULTURE 



Fig. 428. Buckeye cockerel. (Photo- 

 graph from owner, Eugene Cowles, 

 Shelbyville, Kentucky) 



The intensity of interest there 

 made a wide impression and at 

 present it is well distributed 

 in America. 



The Buckeye was first bred 

 in Ohio as a red pea-combed 

 fowl before the Rhode Island 

 Reds were known there. They 

 differed so slightly from pea- 

 combed .Rhode Island Reds 

 that when the originator made 

 the acquaintance of the Rhode 

 Island varieties, the name 

 " Buckeye " was discarded. 

 After the Rhode Island Red 

 fanciers decided not to con- 

 tinue breeding a pea-combed 

 variety, the name " Buckeye " 

 was again given to the Ohio 

 stock, and under that name it 



was admitted to the American Standard, with some changes in 



description of color and form to give a different breed character. 

 The Orpingtons. This breed 



takes its name from the town of 



Orpington, Kent, England, where 



it was developed by Mr. William 



Cook, the avowed object being to 



produce a breed of the general- 

 purpose type better adapted to 



English requirements than the 



Barred Plymouth Rock and the 



Silver- Laced Wyandotte, both of 



which were rapidly growing in 



popularity in that country. The 



characteristic difference between 



Orpingtons and the American 



general-purpose varieties is the 



color of the skin (gray or white) 



Fig. 429. Buckeye pullet (Photo- 

 graph from owner, Eugene Cowles) 



