PURITY PLUMES

THE SIGNIFICANT NAME FOR
THE NOBLEST OF NOBLE BREEDS ©

THE WHITE
PLYMOUTH ROCK

 

PRICE 35 CENTS

. Published by
THE WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK CLUB

SECRETARY'S OFFICE, SOUTHBORO, Mass.

 

 

 

 

 
To tHe Nosiest or Nosie BreeEps,
To THE Heaviest or Heavy Layers,
To THE Finest or Fine Birps,

To THE most BEAUTIFUL, THE MOST PROLIFIC,
AND THE MOST PROFITABLE, OF ALL BREEDS,
Tue Wuite PiymMoutH Rock,

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.

Copyrighted, 1912, by The White Plymouth Rock Club.
PURITY PLUMES

1912

 

 

Compiled and Edited by C. W. Whitney, Secretary

 

 

THE EDITOR’S PAGE

N presenting Purtry Pitumes to the membership of The White
Plymouth Rock Club, I do not feel that we have done justice
to the breed for which it stands. We have, however, bent every

energy towards making this book one of profit as a work that will
fitly describe our breed, tell of the work of our club, indorse the
breeders who are members, and furnish to the beginners in poultry
keeping a reference book on the care, breeding, and all other factors
of success in the breeding of the White Plymouth Rock. If the
members of this club and all those who shall read this volume are
benefited thereby, the editor will feel well repaid for his efforts. If
some beginner in poultry keeping or some present breeder of poultry
is led to breeding White Plymouth Rocks, or if any poultry keeper
is brought to realization of the benefits of this club, so that he
becomes a member, then it is that my work and time are well spent.

The White Plymouth Rock spreads its wings and laps the shores of

the Atlantic and the Pacific,
It breeds its young on the fertile fields of the Central West,
It picks the tender morsels from the beautiful Southland shores of

the Gulf
And deposits its eggs on the banks of the Great Lakes.

I give this book into your hands, lay it before you for your
criticism or approval, and as your Secretary sincerely hope that
the work will be satisfactory.

Respectfully submitted,

Cuirron W. Wuitney.
The White Plymouth Rock Club issues this year a book that will
contain the name and address of every White Rock breeder who is a
member of the club in good standing. This book contains illustra-
tions and articles on the breeding and management of the White
Rock for exhibition, table fowl and eggs. These articles are written
by the best-known authorities in America and can be followed with
greatest success. ;

The club protects its members against unscrupulous and dis-
honest men who may. breed White Rocks, but who cannot be members
of the White Rock Club.

The club offers a national cup at the annual meeting and State
cups or ribbons at all State meetings where the State has in it fifteen
or more members in good standing. These are beautiful in design and
every breeder of White Rocks is proud to own one. Only members
can compete for them.

The club offers ribbons at all shows; this year’s ribbons are the
best yet offered and will be much prized; they are given on exhibition
fowls and on dressed White Rock fowl for table use, also on White
Rock eggs. All shows may have them by addressing the Secretary.
Ask your local association to do so. Where the last-mentioned classes
have not existed in local shows we will tell the association how they
may exist at no expense to it.

 
 

Wuire Piymoutu Rocx Hen No. 717 1n Nationa, Ecco Layinc Contest aT
Mountain Grove, Mo.
Photo taken June 1, 1912 after she had laid for 59 consecutive days, her record
being 82 eggs in 82 days. Her total to date is 237 eggs.

 

 

Leapinc Pen or Waite Rocks at Contest ConNeEcTICUT
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

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THE WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK

By Joun Henry Lyncn, Epwarpsvitte, Itt.

ARGE, long-bodied, full-breasted, stylish birds with single red
] / comb, bright bay eyes, clean yellow legs, beautiful, lustrous
snow-white plumage — that’s a White Plymouth Rock.

Hardy, thriving in all climates, maturing evenly and early;
most desirable table fowl; gentle and domestic, requiring no high
fence to keep them yarded; males grow to weigh around eleven
pounds; hens weigh from seven to nine pounds, are layers of many
large, brown eggs; quiet, friendly mothers; beautiful, attractive
show birds — that is what

White Plymouth Rocks
are.

As a breed for fan-
ciers there is no other so
profitable. Hundreds of
dollars are frequently
paid for single specimens
and eggs find a ready
market at good prices.
It requires merit to sus-
tain prices, and the long-
continued and growing
popularity of White
Plymouth Rocks firmly
establishes their worth.
As egg producers they
are unexcelled. In the
National Poultry Associ-
ation test a pen of exhi-
bition White Plymouth
Rocks proved themselves
superior to all competi-
tors. Lately in the Ore-
gon State test White
Plymouth Rocks headed
the list with a record of
two hundred and forty odd eggs per hen in a year. Well authenti-
cated instances of single hens laying more than two hundred and
sixty eggs in three hundred and sixty-five days are recorded. For
broilers, frying or roasting, they are excellent. ‘They reach broiling
size quickly, maturing evenly and rapidly, cockerels making four-
pound and pullets about three-pound fryers when sixteen weeks old.
Cockerels caponized grow to weigh fourteen pounds, and their plump,
yellow-skinned, tender-meated bodies find a ready market at top
prices, being the first choice of exacting customers.

The Agricultural Department of the United States selected
White Plymouth Rocks for use in the Experiment Station, and when
Uncle Sam decides they are the stock to tie to more breeders should
make them their choice.

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WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS — THE
UTILITY FOWLS

By F. W. Warner, WILLIAMSBURG, Va.

ILITY given a simple definition means usefulness, profit.

In a broader sense it means the quality or qualities combined

to produce the most useful or profitable results with the least
expenditure of force, exertion or expense. That this quality of util-
ity is the desideratum among poultry breeders in general cannot be
denied, even though the, strictly speaking, fancier may give: it less
consideration in his selection of breeds.

Among the numerous breeds of fowls may be found a variety that
will very closely fill the requirements of the poultry fancier, or
specialty breeder, be those requirements beauty in form or plumage,
stylish, graceful carriage, clear bright eyes with harmonious blending
in color of comb and wattles—birds with vigorous, wide ranging
tendencies, or with ability to retain health and vigor when closely
yarded; strong producing laying qualities whether on range or closely
confined — fowls that will produce the most pounds of flesh in the
shortest time with the minimum of food, flesh that is a delicacy sought
by epicures— fowls that are egg producers only, or fowls that will
hatch their eggs and brood their young — all this and more is possible
to the specialty breeder who has but the one purpose in view, or who
may by a selection of varieties obtain all the above requirements.
But as the specialist is in a class by himself, and usually able to fol-
low out his desires without giving so much thought to utility qualities,
it is to the great mass of poultry producers in general that utility
qualities appeal so strongly. While they desire all of the above quali-
ties as nearly as may be, they require them to be combined in one
breed, as they have neither time to devote to, nor room to accommo-
date, a variety of breeds. The strictly utility fowl is the greatly
desired and much sought after bird, and the breed that most nearly
combines all the desirable qualities in its own one variety is what the
general poultry world demands, and this desire has had its own ful-
filment inasmuch as there is at least one breed of poultry that
practically fulfils every requirement.

The White Plymouth Rocks today stand pre-eminent as the great
utility breed, with but few competitors and equaled by none. In
every test as utility birds they have proven their title to the crown of
excellence over all. Even compared on any single point of merit they
need never be ashamed of their record. They are one of the most
beautiful and graceful birds of the feathered tribe (a utility quality
only inasmuch as it appeals to the pride and interest of their owners,
and begets better care and attention that means much along utility
lines). In health and vigor there are few breeds their equal; they
are all that could be desired as foragers afield, going out early and late,
but always within reasonable bounds, seldom ever leaving their own
premises. Closely yarded they are equally desirable, retaining their
health and vigor and laying qualities as few other varieties do or can.

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They are always satisfied and contented, thus being easily controlled,
a four-foot fence being amply sufficient to pen them. On range or
in confinement they are ever and always egg producers the entire
year through. Given White Plymouth Rocks one is sure of the full
egg basket any and every day in the year. That they are constant
and consistent layers to a degree equaled by few, if any, other breeds
has been proven in too many tests to require any argument here.
The largest known yearly record was made by a pen of White Ply-
mouth Rocks, their average being 285 eggs each, or something over
one hundred dozen for the five pullets during the year.

In the present national tests being made at Storrs College,
Connecticut, the highest laying average of each variety in all pens
entered is being made by White Plymouth Rocks. In the Missouri
Experiment Station tests a White Plymouth Rock hen (No. 717) has
the record for continuous number of eggs laid to date. These records
with the many, many other recorded laying contests are conclusive
evidence that as consistent layers they have no superiors. Their
large, beautiful brown eggs command top prices in the markets. As
a table or market fowl, they are the ne plus ultra of the feathered
kingdom. They gain rapidly in size and weight with the minimum
amount of food and have all the desired qualities of shape and color.
Their fine-grained, tender flesh, combined with long, deep breast and
large, juicy thighs and beautiful golden yellow skin, appeals to the
consumer as no other fowl does.

While the incubator has partially relieved Mother Cluck of her
many duties, still the general poultry public have not reached the
point of entire dependence on incubators for hatching, and still look
to their hens for at least part of this work. While White Plymouth
Rocks are not disagreeably broody and are easily dissuaded if not
wanted for the purpose (forty-eight hours’ cooping will usually put
them back on the nests laying again), yet as quiet, gentle, sensible
setters they have no superiors. They are dependable from every
standpoint, can be changed to any nest desired, and will settle down
with a satisfied cluck, always willing to let you approach their nest
and examine their eggs, seeming to understand that you and they are
mutually interested in the outcome. As mothers they have few
equals, are not inclined to rush their chicks out through the wet
weeds and grass as many breeds do, always seeming willing to
adopt any little foundling that may seem to need their care, as the
mothers in many breeds will not do. Being gentle, docile mothers
they do not sound the alarm cry on your approaching their brood,
causing them to scamper into the weeds or brush as frightened as
if you were their worst enemy. ‘These may seem small matters, but
they count for much from the utility standpoint.

Summing up we find that in the White Plymouth Rock are com-
bined to a marked degree the excellences of every known breed with
few of their various faults. For that reason they should be, and are,
justly famous as the world’s best utility fowl, filling the demand of the
great poultry public as no other breed can. They leave little to be
desired by the specialty breeder, and combine all that is desired by
the utility man.
WHY WHITE ROCKS ARE THE BEST FOWL
FOR THE FANCIER

By M. L. Cuapman

HY is it that White Rocks generally win the sweepstake
prizes in our large shows for best display of any variety —
best bird in show, cup for whitest bird, etc.2 How do you

White Rock fellows do it, is often asked of me by breeders of other
varieties.

The answer is that White Rocks of the present day inherit a
correct breeding foundation that is superior to that of the average
breed. Something like thirty years ago Harry Graves of Higganum,
Conn., began breeding White Rocks in a small way. To this work
he brought great natural talent, or breeders’ instinct some call it.
At the beginning of his breeding he had no especial thought of exhibit-
ing his birds or of making it his serious life’s work.

White Rocks at that time were a rather short-bodied bird with a
fairly high tail. Brassy backs were plenty and a good white bird
very rare. Harry Graves, having an artistic eye, was not suited
with these birds and, depending solely on his own idea of what was
beautiful, without reference to what the Standard described as cor-
rect shape for a Rock, began to lengthen the bodies and lower the
tails of his birds, all the time paying great attention to color.

He was content to raise two or three hundred chickens a year,
hatching them under hens, letting the hens range with the chickens
in a fine chestnut grove near the house. Some losses from hawks,
etc., are bound to occur when birds range freely this way, but those
that survive have constitutions that make them the salt of the
poultry world.

Every fall the birds that did not measure up to what his idea
of a perfectly healthy, strong and beautiful bird should be were dis-
posed of, got off the place entirely. With the improvement that
followed, came inspiration, and he decided to make White Rocks his
principal life’s work. He decided to breed his improved type of
Rocks for a number of years before offering them to the public, in
order to get the type thoroughly fixed.

As nobody else had the kind of Rocks that he was trying to get,
he could not go outside for new blood. He did make one or two at-
tempts to do so, but with bad results each time. He gradually estab-
lished different families, putting some of them on neighboring farms,
that he could intermingle and escape the evils of too close inbreeding.

Mr. Graves bred and improved his birds for about fifteen years
before making an exhibit or selling any of them to speak of. Fifteen
years is a long time to wait for profits. In these days people begin
to advertise themselves as specialists when they buy their first
breeding pen.

Fifteen years of discarding every inferior bird and of breeding
only from birds that measure up to a certain standard and that are
all of similar blood lines, fixes the type, so that breeding birds from

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such a flock will reproduce themselves with certainty and will con-
tinue to do so for generations, with only ordinary attention to breed-
ing laws. Mr. Graves made his first exhibit at the Hartford show
in 1900, if I remember correctly, winning all the firsts and nearly all
the ribbons. A month later he did the same thing at Madison
Square Garden. He put Higganum, Conn., on the map so that
people have never forgotten it, and from that time on until his
death, a period of about six years, he was invincible. Mr. Graves’
birds were far from the Standard of Perfection as then written, differ-
ing, as I have before stated, in length of body and in having lower,
better-spread tails. Anybody with half an eye could see that he had
birds that were much more beautiful than the Standard, and the judge
did right to give them the prizes. Breeders of other varieties of
Rocks began working for longer bodies, lower tails, etc., and the
wording of the Standard was eventually changed to fit this new and
improved type of Rocks.

This is practically the way we have gotten all the improvements
in the Standard, by some breeder cutting loose and showing large
strings of birds that although not exactly in shape what the Standard
called for are really more beautiful.

The average person is a pretty good judge of comparative
beauty after it is worked out for him, consequently this new type of
White Rocks won for itself many new admirers, and the White Rock
classes at the shows have been growing ever since.

These new admirers of White Rocks have been successful and
well satisfied with their choice, because a certain man had worked
and waited for fifteen years without profit that his beloved White
Rocks might be true to his own ideal of the beautiful, and when
offered to the public might stand on a foundation of scientific breed-
ing that would eventually enable them to be considered the most
beautiful and useful fowl in the world.

Practically every breeder of White Rocks of those days went to
Graves for new blood to improve his flock with, and Harry Graves,
being an honest man and having also the welfare of the breed at heart,
did not send out anything but first-class birds. Mr. Graves’ un-
timely death prevented him from receiving the large financial reward
that was due him for his work with White Rocks. He lived long
enough, however, to greatly improve the White Rock breed all over
the country. Fortunately for the breed his flock was kept intact
after his death and went into good hands.

Nearly all of the present-day strains trace back to the Graves’
flock to some extent, and that is why the White Rock is the best
breed for the fancier, because they go back to better breeding and
longer continued good breeding in the same hands than most breeds
have been favored with.

They will be the best breed for your customers for the same reason
that they are the best breed for you.

We have passed through the dark days with White Rocks.
We have now got the club and the breed into grand shape, and it is
up to us breeders of the present day to go in with the flood-tide and
os White Rocks the acknowledged leader of the American poultry
world.

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MATING WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

By H. W. Hatpacu, WaTErRrForp, WIs.
Breeder of the Famous “Stay White” Strain of White Rocks

N writing this article, little need be said about the superior merit
of the White Plymouth Rocks. Their great laying ability, quick
growth, large size, beautiful appearance, and supreme vigor are

a few of the reasons why they have become so popular, not only with
a certain class of our poultrymen but with all. The great egg farms,
the broiler and market poultry farms, fanciers’ yards, the city man’s
yard, will show a large percentage of White Rocks. They do not
need to be boomed for their sterling qualities appeal to all.

Now, in telling you about mating White Rocks, I shall explain
how my birds were mated each year in order to produce my winners.
The first necessary thing to do is to select your good females, those
that you are going to use in the breeding pens. Right here I want to
tell you to take your time. It is right and proper to be a hustler,
but when it comes to selecting birds to produce your winners, my
advice is, take your time.

If you go about it in a hurried, slipshod way, failure will be
inevitable.

Select all birds free from disqualifications, such as white ear lobes,
stubs, etc., and be sure not to overlook the utility value, size, appear-
ance, laying ability and health. Do not use an unhealthy bird, no
matter how good it is. Vitality is one of the greatest assets of our
White Rocks and we should not sacrifice it at any cost. Also remem-
ber that quality is better than quantity. So if you can only raise
seventy-five birds in a season, do not put ten birds in a pen if you
have only four or five birds that are good enough. Better raise only
from the best. If you can have a good male to head your pen all
right; if not, buy one, for in a great measure your chance of success
depends on him. Now after all the breeders have been selected,
put the male birds in pens by themselves.

The very best way to show you how to mate your birds is by an
illustration. Supposing a breeder has enough good birds to mate
four pens. At the head of Pen 1 is a cock bird which fits to the fol-
lowing description: a good five-point comb, grand shape, but a little
too low on legs. Is somewhat creamy in color, his eye is light bay,
but he has fine yellow legs. At the head of Pen 2 is another cock
bird. He has a good comb, which has four points but is slightly ir-
regular in front. He has good eye, color, good back, but his tail is
too long and somewhat pinched. At the head of Pen 3 is a cockerel

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whose faults are that he has a long comb which is too large and does
not follow the head. He is long but narrow; his color is perfection,
but his legs are pale. At the head of Pen 4 is a cockerel. His
breast is flat, comb unevenly serrated and his back is very broad
but not quite long enough. In other respects he is good.

When a breeder comes to select his females again, he finds one
that is a little high in legs, is pure snow white, excellent red eye and
is fairly good otherwise. In looking over the male birds he readily
sees that this female will make a perfect mate for the cock bird in
Pen 1. The next bird he gets his eye on is a nice pullet that has a
six-point comb that is regular in front. She has a short, well-spread
tail but is a little creamy, and in looking over the males he sees that
she would mate finely with Pen 2. Then he picks up a hen. She is
very broad in back, a fine, low comb, is creamy in color, but as she
has fine yellow legs she should be put in Pen 3. After this he picks
up another hen. She hasa good, full breast, evenly serrated comb and
is very long but not broad enough. This hen has all the good quali-
ties which the male in Pen 4 lacks, so put her in Pen 4.

In this manner go over all of your females, carefully selecting
and mating them so that the fault of one is offset by the good points
of the other. When you have finished mating your pens go over them
again and again so that you are sure you have mated and matched
them properly. Do not be afraid of taking too much time. I often
spend more than a day in mating a single pen of birds.

In conclusion I wish to state that those who have and are using
score cards to assist in mating up their pens of White Rocks, or for
that matter, of any other breed, should make a bonfire out of them,
so that he will not be tempted to place an inferior high-scoring bird
in a pen just on account of the score. As long as any breeder uses
the score card as his guide in mating pens, he will be a back number.
Score cards are worthless, and I firmly believe retard the greater
development of fancy birds. Several of our leading national judges
now refuse to work with the score card in placing awards, and I trust
that other judges will soon be following them. When we no longer
have the score card, breeders will study their own birds and thus
progress at a greater rate.

Nore—The above, from Poultry Item, by Mr. Halbach, is cer-
tainly well illustrated. He has been one of the sensational winners
at the Great Chicago Show for years and his suggestions should be
carefully followed and success will come.—F. W.

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CARE OF WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS FOR
EXHIBITION PURPOSES

By U. R. FisHer

of White Plymouth Rocks but know about all there is to
be known about caring for and preparing their birds for the
show room.

To those that know I would say this article is not intended for
you, but for the new convert to White Plymouth Rocks who desires
to show a few of his birds at his local or State show.

The best and most attractive birds I have ever exhibited are
those I pick up off free range and place in the wash room just
three or four days before the exhibition is held. If you are so situated
that you can do the same I would advise you if possible to select
your exhibition birds that way; if not so situated then it is a good plan
to ‘select your birds a week or so ahead of date of exhibition, and
coop them where you can spend some time training the birds, etc.

While selecting your birds for exhibition always run through their
plumage carefully and pluck out all flecked feathers or those badly
soiled, providing, however, these feathers do not appear in the wing
primaries or secondaries. Some fanciers think they are committing
a great wrong by plucking thesé flecked feathers; it is no more a sin
than for the lady to powder her face, for it is a matter of appearing
to the best advantage. It is as natural for White Plymouth Rocks
(or any white chicken so far as that is concerned) to have these
flecked feathers as it is for a Barred Plymouth Rock to have solid
black feathers, and I do not think there ever lived a Barred Rock but
that had black feathers nor a White Rock but that had flecked or
partly barred feathers.

After you have gone over the bird carefully for flecked feathers
feeling pretty sure you have found them all, go over it again and you
will find the very one the judge would have found first, and possibly
disqualified your specimen.

After this work is done, you can wash your birds by the method
used by most all breeders; viz., wash in one tub and rinse in two or
three waters. I have found ivory soap the best soap to use. Dry
your birds slowly, and be sure to get all soap out of the plumage.

After the birds are washed, keep their coops clean and spare no
time in giving the birds every attention.

When you coop them to be shipped to the show dust them well
with corn starch, as this will assist in keeping the plumage from
becoming soiled by coal smoke, dirt, etc. It is no secret to properly
care for a string of White Plymouth Rocks for the show room; it is
simply a matter of care and close attention.

AN T this age of the world there are very few breeders or exhibitors

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ESSENTIAL FACTORS IN BREEDING PURE
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS

By W. R. Graves

T is a common saying among poultry breeders that “Like begets
like,” and if you breed from pure white birds you will have pure
white stock from them, but it is a well-known fact that there

are many shades of white in white poultry, and the old theory that
“black is black” and “white is white” will not apply in describing
the colors of poultry. Oftentimes I have been approached by exhibi-
tors at shows, with a chip on
the shoulder, wanting to know
why I cut their birds two,
three, or four points for color
when their birds were really
white. While their birds would
look white by themselves, the
only way I could convince
them that they were not was
to compare them with a bird
that was dead white color, one
that you could almost feel was
white, then they would admit
that there were at least two
or three shades difference in
the two birds. The question
is, how to get those very
chalky white birds and still
keep up the stamina in your
flock, for it is a well-known
fact that a bird that is consti-
tutionally weak of the white
breeds will be whiter in
plumage than the vigorous,
husky birds. There has been
much written from time to
time for and against the feeding of yellow corn to white-plumaged
birds on account of its effect on the plumage. Some will say that
it does affect them and others will say it does not. About twenty-two
years ago, when a real white White Wyandotte was a rare speci-
men, I, by accident, happened to get a lot of white corn from my
grain man, as he had a lot on hand and sold it for less than the
yellow corn. I fed this to my growing chicks and that winter had
by far the whitest lot of birds I had ever seen, and they made
quite a sensation in the show room. I have score cards made
out by A. C. Hawkins, with a score of 94 to 9534, with very small
color cuts. Profiting by this experience, I have continued to feed
white corn, and any one that has followed my showings for the last
twenty years knows that my string of birds has always excelled in color.
There may be strains of white birds that yellow corn will not affect,

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but I have noticed that some of the strongest advocates of feeding
yellow corn do not cut a bush or weed in their growing yards for fear
the sun will strike the growing stock and affect their color. I had
much rather get my white plumage through the feed and let them
have all the sun
there is, as I x ¥
think it is nec-
essary for their
health and best $
development. I
also notice that
the advocates of
feeding yellow
corn have many
birds whose
quills will be real
creamy and full
of sap, and they
have to excuse
it by saying the
“feathers are
green” and will
whiten out when
they are ripe.
This no doubt
has been the
cause of so many
bleaching their
birds to get rid
of this creami- > |
ness which does
not ripen out in ’
time for a show. aad vee for ae ERS Cre ree CLASS,

A line of birds | | ee; dumeo’on BALTIMORE~1912 |
that have been | (Zetsted dy ‘I ""RECKANDETTE FARM - Southboro. Mass _
fed white corn |_ a
will not need this :
bleaching, as the feathers will come in pure white and be white at all
stages of their growth. I have found out that by feeding white corn,
kaffir corn, wheat and oats I can give the birds a good variety, and by
governing the color to a great extent by feeding I can pay more atten-
tion to mating, so as to produce more perfect-shaped specimens. As
long as there are persons of different minds, just so long will there be
arguments for and against feeding yellow corn to white birds. My
advice is, to any that have trouble in getting that creamy color out of
quills, to try feeding white corn. It may not produce the desired
results in one season, but if not, the next will show a decided im-
provement. Give the growing chicks a grass range, so as to give
the legs a good yellow color, and help the plumage through the
right kinds of feeds, and you will have much less difficulty in getting
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THE WHITE ROCK FOR EGGS
By Cuartes H. Warp, BETHEL, Conn.

ANY persons ask the question, ‘“‘How are the White Plymouth
Rocks for eggs?” I have been in the position to keep in touch
with much of this line of work, and will give, to the best of my

ability, a true answer to the above question, without trying to pad
up any records or exaggerate. I have communicated with several
large poultry plants who cater to the market end of the business
almost exclusively. They are unanimous in their replies that they
chose the White Plymouth Rocks because they had proved the best
all round utility fowl for their purpose, viz.: Eggs for market and dis-
posing of the fowl for meat after their utility as egg producers had
begun to wane.

One party wrote me that on trap-nest records his best five
hens laid 218 eggs each in 365 days; one, 217 eggs; eight, 209 eggs, and
17 averaged 185 eggs. ‘These hens averaged from eight to nine and
one-quarter pounds each, had medium combs and had deep, wedge-
shaped bodies. Contrary to the experience of many others, these
hens had rather high tails. It is the concession of all that the me-
dium-sized bird is the best layer. Now, from my own experience, I
do not claim that my White Rocks can beat a good strain of Leghorns
in number of eggs laid in a year, but I do say that weight for weight
of eggs the White Rocks will outclass the Leghorns in the same length
of time, and as you get most of your White Rock eggs when prices
average high, and most of your Leghorn eggs when prices average
low, the balance swings in favor of the White Rocks, to say nothing
of the carcass you have left for market purposes, as compared with
the “pigeon” bodied White Leghorn. I have kept the White Leg-
horns beside the White Rocks, pen for pen (and the Leghorns were

. from one of the best laying strains in New York State), and the Rocks
outlaid the Leghorns nearly one-third, with the same feed and care,
for three months. I have had thirteen varieties of poultry in my
twenty years’ experience, and have bred White Rocks for over
fifteen years, the last nine exclusively — and I say that for all gen-
eral purposes the White Rock gives the best satisfaction. They lay
well if properly cared for. No fowl can do so if not cared for.

Treat them right, feed them well on a varied ration. Plenty of
green food, grit and water.

Speaking of White Rock eggs, they will average large in size,
rich in nutriment and many in number, if your birds are well housed,
well cared for and well bred.

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FEEDING AND BREEDING FOR COLOR
By M. L. Cuarpman

OLOR in white birds is divided into several classes. There is
the white bird with brassy hackle and back that nothing can
be done to improve and that is worthless as a breeder.

Brassy birds are very rare in White Rocks. I have not seen one
in any reputable breeder’s yard in several years. Then there is the
bird that is absolutely pure white at all times of the year. These
birds are usually poor in leg color and rather thin in flesh, and appear
to lack in vitality. In fact I believe the reason that they are pure
white at all times is because they never have any surplus fat to throw
into their feathers. Such birds are not of much value in the breed-
ing yard. Then, there is the bird that is pure white when the feathers
are mature and the sap is dried out of plumage. These birds will
show cream when new feathers are growing and perhaps for a month or
so after the new plumage is grown, but if kept in a light, airy coop
will gradually bleach out to a pure white.

This kind of a bird is the most valuable as a breeder, as it
usually has great vitality, good leg color, etc. There is also a class
of white birds, which is always creamy in surface and has yellow
quills. Such birds are allowable in a utility flock, but have no place
in a fancier’s yard. A large percentage of White Rocks are good
colored, but care should always be exercised in the mating, for color
is one of the important things.

A great deal has been written from time to time about feeding
for color. After a great many years of experience I have come to
the conclusion that feed has but little effect upon color. The fatter
the bird is at the time of molt the more cream will be thrown into
the feathers. This will not necessarily do any harm, as I have before
stated that the naturally white birds will gradually bleach themselves
out. It makes no difference whether the bird is fed on white corn or
yellow corn, the effect is the same. It is possible that certain kinds
of feed if fed for generations might have some slight effect on color,
but nobody has yet proved that such is the case.

It is also possible that soil, climate, elevation, moisture, etc.,
may in the long run have some slight effect on color, but these things
are for scientists and need not bother the practical fancier, who
simply wants to win prizes and make some money. I have seen as
white birds as grow that were fed continually on yellow corn, and I
have seen them grown on all kinds of soil, at the seashore and in the
high mountains. These things may have some slight effect on color,
but the careful selection of breeding stock, discarding absolutely all
birds that are not white after the feathers have dried down, is about
ninety-nine per cent of the problem.

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TRAINING AND WASHING WHITE ROCKS
By C. W. WuitNEy

HERE is little or no reason for washing colored birds further
than to clean their legs and face. After this they should be
placed in small, comfortable cages with plenty of clean litter

in which is scattered a small amount of wheat which will serve to
preserve the natural oil that it is desirable to retain. :

White birds only must and should be washed. The process is a
matter of practice more than anything else. The careful following of
these directions with practice should after a few trials make one
efficient in washing any white bird for a show.

Only pure ivory soap should be used. This may sound like an
advertisement for this soap; it is not; they do not know I am writing
it; it is an established fact that no soap or soap powder will do the
work like this soap, and with no other can you be assured of having
your bird free from cream so far as the soap is concerned as the cause
of it.

The soap should never be rubbed on the feather, but shaved up
in the hot water and reduced to a heavy suds by swashing with the
hand. Have the water of such temperature that the hand may work
in it without inconvenience. The bird is dipped into this and wet all
over. He is then held firmly with one hand while the suds are
worked in with the other so that it penetrates to the skin. Each
feather should be gently rubbed the length of it and not across.
For this take the fleshy part of the thumb near the end or base of the
hand. Care must always be taken that the feather is rubbed the
way it runs and never against it. Also you must be extremely care-
ful not to break a feather either in washing or holding the bird.

After all stains are removed pass the bird through a rinsing water,
and thoroughly rinse out the soap. Examine and pass through
another like water. Examine again very closely, for any trace of
soap, should there be any, must be rinsed off, as this will give the
plumage a creamy appearance.

After the final rinsing, the bird is placed in the blue water.
Each of these waters has been warm, but each is of a degree less
in heat than the other. This last should be the coolest. Never use
chemical blues. They do not give results, and will injure the feathers.
The old-fashioned indigo blue in powdered form may be purchased
at any druggist’s, and diluted in water will give best results. Havea
large amount of water in this tub and blue about the same as for
clothes. Grasp the bird firmly by the legs above the shanks, with
one hand, and firmly hold the wings with the other in such a position
that when the bird is immersed the water will cover all parts at one
time. The bird’s head must be kept out of this water. This is accom-
plished by immersing the back first with the breast upwards.

Passing the hands over the bird gently, the water is pressed out
and an even surfacing of bluing water is had all over.

The bird is now placed before a fire where the heat rays will

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strike directly upon him, and where he may as he dries off plume him-
io There are some who advocate the use of towels for drying the
owl.

The first washing takes place about two weeks before showing,
if there are to be two; if only one or the last washing is given, about
three or four days before the bird is sent to the exhibition hall.

After the washing of white birds and as soon as any birds have
passed through the preliminary work of preparation, they are placed
in cages similar to those used in show rooms.

They are bedded on clean straw that is removed as many times
a day as is necessary to keep free of droppings.

By passing to and fro in front of the bird, by showing them to
friends and with gently talking and the use of a dowel to stroke them
down, they are accustomed to the procedure of the judges. In train-
ing be gentle in all you do.

As they are leaving for the show, with a brush and nail file groom
the legs and nails until the latter shine. Remove all dirt from under
the scales, and wipe off with a cloth dampened with sweet oil and
alcohol mixed, equal parts.

Do not let it remain on, but wipe off with a clean cloth, as other-
wise it will gather dust to the legs.

Just a word on shipping to the show. Give plenty of head room,
so the bird may stand upright without the head or comb protruding
from the top of the coop. Place but one bird in a coop; if more than
one, have a cloth partition divide them. Put in clean straw and feed
and water just before leaving.

If you can be at the show do so; handle them there, and again
groom the legs, head and nails.

Learn to take the bird from the coop. To do this right is impor-
tant or the feathers may be broken.

To do this, turn the bird so it will face you, pass the right hand
over the head to the back and firmly pin the wings to the side in the
natural position. Pass the left hand under the bird, letting the index
finger pass between the legs, the thumb being around one leg and the
second finger around the other.

Draw gently from the coop, but act quickly, lifting the elbow
to a horizontal position, the bird’s head passed under it, the arm is
lowered and you have the bird in correct position for examination.

 

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WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND THEIR
ORIGIN

By C. W. Wurrney

HE White Plymouth Rock owes its origin to the hatching of

several white chicks from eggs laid by Barred Plymouth Rocks.

So far as the writer has been able to determine these are the

first known White Plymouth Rocks. ‘The White Rock is a so-called
sport from the Barred variety.

There are two causes for such a variation in breed. The Black
Java was part of the original foundation stock, and all black fowls
have a tendency to throw white chicks. For the purpose of enlarging
the size of the old Barred Rock a cross with White Asiatic fowl was
made. This increased the tendency already mentioned, consequently
it is not surprising that there have been white sports from the Barred
Plymouth Rocks.

The credit of having the first White Plymouth Rocks is given to
Qsear- F. Frost, of Monmouth, Maine. Mr. Frost in 1876 hatched
several white chicks from what he knew to be Barred Plymouth
Rock eggs. Shortly after this, when the White Rocks began coming
into prominence, others made claim to a similar experience.

It is stated that the white sports thus hatched came in largest
quantities from the Essex and Drake strain of Barred Rocks. The
originator of this strain claimed to have used a cross of White Birming-
ham fowl in his flock, and this is stated to have been in part at least
the reason for their having produced white progeny. One very
notable feature that has existed from the very first is that the White
Plymouth Rock has always been truer to the Plymouth Rock type
than any other variety. ‘The least careful breeders have in their
flocks many excellent typical White Rocks.

Another fact for the breeders of the White Plymouth Rocks is
that they have been found in nearly every strain to be more prolific
layers than the other varieties. Probably these two facts, well
established as they are, may be said to be the fundamental reasons
why the White Plymouth Rocks have so many strong advocates
and why they each year become more and more popular with breed-
ers of domestic fowl.

Less blood of other breeds has been used in the breeding of White
Rocks than of almost any other breed or variety. White Rock
breeders do not have to go to other breeds to attain all the essentials
of a profit-producing fowl, for they haye them in the pure blood of
the White Rock fowl.

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BREEDING WHITE ROCKS FOR FANCY AND
UTILITY QUALITIES

By H. W. Harsacu

tical view they take in all matters. Although this is true in

every way, it is especially emphasized in the breeding of fowls.
Unless a bird is also a layer or a producer of good utility stock we do
not consider him a profit payer, even though he may be a show bird
of great worth. That this theory is correct has been proven by the
fact that the majority of greatest winning American birds we have are
healthy, vigorous, prolific-laying, quick-growing stock, besides reach-
ing perfection in shape and color markings. Here and there certain
booms and fads take some from our ranks, but it does not take long
for them to realize that they are on the wrong track and to return again
to our great breed. In this way our grand variety — White Ply-
mouth Rocks — has at all times been a leader and now enjoys a
greater appreciation for its superior qualities than ever -before.
The combination of fancy and utility qualities is the happy medium
all of us should work and strive for. It is indeed with pride and
pleasure that we White Rock breeders can point to our wonderful
variety and say, “In no other breed of today are these qualities
exemplified so strongly as in the White Plymouth Rocks.”

Now, let us consider why it is that we have succeeded in weaving
these qualities into one breed. After carefully looking into the mat-
ter we find that: First. The Standard description of requirements not
only goes to make up one of the most beautiful varieties in the Stan-
dard, but also includes the points in which a good utility fowl must
naturally excel. Second. White Rocks have never been boomed
suddenly. Their growth has been steady, and in this way we have not
gone backward as so many other breeds have done. Third — perhaps
the greatest of all—the majority of the White Rock breeders have
for many years looked after both the utility and fancy points in
producing their birds, so that now our highest class of show strains is
also the equal of the best in egg laying.

Knowing now the superior worth of the White Rocks, what we
must do is to see to it that our variety does not go back, but that it
pushes steadily ahead as it has been doing for years. In order to
keep up and ahead of what we have been doing it is highly necessary
that in breeding White Rocks we should look for the combination of
utility and fancy points. How can this be done? Certainly in no

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A MERICANS have always ‘been known on account of the prac-
other way than by careful selection and studying the results we get
from matings.

In mating pens there are several features that should be placed
above all the others. I have herewith arranged them in their order
of importance: First. Health. Never use a bird that has a tendency
to sickness. They can never produce robust chicks. Keep up the
vigor of your flock. Second. Egg laying. By carefully watching
our birds and weeding out the poor payers we succeed in getting
heavy egg production bred into our birds. Third. Fancy or show
points. Use only your best birds. Never mate a male and female
having the same defect, as this will intensify that defect in the off-
spring. Of course we can overlook slight defects, but in general try
to have a male bird strong where the female is lacking and vice versa.
Fourth. Quick growing. We can improve this feature of our flock by
selecting the early maturing or the largest cockerels and mating to
the females we have.

Birds combining all of the above qualities are not as a rule very
plentiful but, at the same time, remember that it will pay far better
in the long run to have five good birds than to have fifty inferior ones.
Do not overstock. This perhaps holds back more amateurs than
any other cause and spoils the chances of many chicks which would
otherwise have developed into winners. Another factor that is often
overlooked, to the loss of many beginners, is the male bird that is
used in the breeding pen. Nothing can possibly raise the standard
of value and productiveness of your flock as quickly as the use of a
good sire. Not only will he improve them in winning points, but if
so bred will also help the egg laying and other desirable qualities.

 

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REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF WHITE
PLYMOUTH ROCK CLUB

The annual-meeting of the Club was held January 18 at the Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Show, President G. H. Hilderbrand presiding. Meeting called to order 2.40 P.M.
Minutes of previous meeting approved as read.

The Club was welcomed by President Davis of the Pittsburgh Association in a
neat speech thanking us for meeting with them. Report of the Secretary-Treasurer
for past year accepted as read. The report showed receipts of $689.33 and expendi-
tures of $580.71 to date of meeting, giving a balance of $108.62. Two years ago
at the annual meeting there was a deficit of $51.22.

On vote to proceed to election of officers for ensuing year it was moved and
_ seconded nominations be made individually. Carried.

Mr. George H. Hilderbrand was nominated for President, and, there being no
other nominations, Secretary was instructed to cast ballot.

Nominations for Secretary-Treasurer placed in the field Mr. C. W. Whitney of
Bridgeport, Conn., and Mr. Charles H. Ward of Bethel. On motion nominations
were closed. The result of the ballot was the election of Mr. Whitney by five votes,
which was made unanimous. Mr. Whitney is Associate Editor of The American
Poultry Advocate and should be of great assistance to the Club through that publica-
tion. He accepted office with a neat speech.

The following Executive Committee was elected: F. J. Coll, Atlanta, Georgia;
Charles H. Ward, Bethel, Conn.; A. D. Severe, Dows, Iowa.

Letter from John Henry Lynch of Illinois with a bid for 1913 meeting was ordered
spread on the minutes: ‘‘We had a meeting of the State membership last Thursday
afternoon and decided to raise a purse of $300 to be placed on White Rocks next year
at our show, and later the Board held a meeting and voted to give seventy-five per cent
of the entry fee as premiums if the National meeting of The White Rock Club would
come to Springfield next year.

“When you go down to Pittsburgh please spread the news that great things
are doing in Illinois for the White Rocks and that the Illinois State Poultry Association
show wants the next meet.

“With best wishes, I am, very truly yours, «y s s 3
oun Henry Lyncu.

A letter received by Mr. Hatton from * * * was read and called forth consider-
able comment. Mr. Lazarus’ motion to ignore the letter was lost on a rising vote.
Motion to write * * * demanding apology both to Mr. Hilderbrand, Mr. Hatton
and the Club (drawing attention to changed dates) was carried.

Motion to reduce semi-annual bulletin to annual year book carried.

Mr. Whitney asked the Chair to request Mr. Reeves V. Hicks, President of
A!P. A., to make a few remarks. Mr. Hicks gave a short address on A. P. A. matters,
which was received with applause, and a number of new members enlisted. Mr.
W. R. Graves made a motion that a $10 prize be given for the best article on “White
Plymouth Rocks as a Business Proposition,” and any or all articles become Club prop-
erty; judges to be President, Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Committee. Motion
amended to read that the prizes be $5 for “utility” and $5 for “fancy” articles.
Carried as amended.

Meeting adjourned at 4.15. as
Cuartes H. Warp, Retiring Secretary.

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REPRINT OF THE PRESIDENT’S AND SECRE-
TARY-TREASURER’S MESSAGES FOR
SPRING OF 1912

To tHe Orricers anD MEMBERS OF THE WuiTE PiymoutH Rock Cius:

Greeting:

We are at the close of another show season and one in which there has been a
marked improvement in all breeds of poultry.

Particularly is this true of the variety of our choice and the one which this Club
represents. Just how much the Club has done to accomplish this we do not know,
but if it is at all creditable for the growth of the White Plymouth Rock during this past
year, then it can, by the adding of a goodly number of active members this spring
and summer, place the White Rock and the Club representing it on the top round of
the ladder of success.

At the last annual meeting of the Club, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., on January
18, 1912, a discussion took place on the following subjects: Shall we issue a year
book in place of a semi-annual bulletin, having the same of more value to the members
and breeders than the last bulletins have been, by the adding of meritorious con-
tributions on the White Plymouth Rock, history, qualifications, breeding, etc.? Placed
to a vote it was decided to do so this year, and a further vote taken instructed the
Secretary-Treasurer to advertise for contributions from Club members, offering
therefor a prize of five ($5.00) dollars for the best article on “The Utility Value of the
White Plymouth Rock,” and a prize of five ($5.00) dollars for the best article on “The
White Plymouth Rock as a Fancier’s Fowl.” In addition to this our new Secretary-
Treasurer has notified me of having offered a further prize for the best article on “How
may we Breed the White Plymouth Rock that it will be a Better Fowl of Combined
Utility and Fancy Qualities?”’ This prize is also five ($5.00) dollars. All contribu-
tions are to be the property of The White Plymouth Rock Club and are not to be sent
for publication by the author to any publication.

This ought to be of great value in making our next year book of prime value.
We hope to make it as nearly equal to a breed standard as possible. Just how much
will be accomplished depends on the members co-operating with us.

Another question of importance was the amending of the Constitution, and
on this subject we ask that every member will consider it his duty and pleasure to
send in his recommendations.

We desire as a Club to do more to interest breeders of our variety in it, and also
interest those just starting or considering new breeds to enlist with the White Rock
breeders and affiliate with the Club. Steps to this end will be announced later in
the year and as formulated.

We want one thousand members to the Club this year— there are now over
400; an average of one from each member will give this to us. We call upon you
to help, and the Executive Board will as the requests for the next annual meeting
place come in consider this point in with the offers of extra prize money. We must
do more for the breeders at large and not depend entirely on the exhibition end; we
must consider the utility breeder, for in this breed we have a fowl of unexcelled qualities
in this respect. We are glad to get all the prize money possible at our annual meeting,
but we want more at the local shows and at the State meetings as well, for not all
of our members can attend the annual meeting. To accomplish this we must have a
more united effort and a larger number of active members.

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The Club is now in good financial condition; it can still retain this and yet have
more money to work with if more members are added. It will take money to do
the things we ought to do this year, but we will have it to do with if each present
member will send just one new one.

We believe you have the interest of the Club at heart, but have felt that it was
doing so little for you personally. This may be true, and if so, we want to rectify
it this year. Will you help us by your co-operation?

This is your club and for your breed. Will you write our Secretary a letter of
your recommendations that you believe will be of lasting benefit to the members
of the Club and the breeders of the White Plymouth Rock at large, who once the
Club has become of proven value will quickly join? We hope you will. Please do
not stand off and criticise; bear in mind none of us are infallible, but that instead
of criticism you should suggest and be active as a worker.

As the past has proven the White Plymouth Rock to be the peer of all breeds
we hope the future will make The White Plymouth Rock Club the peer of all specialty
clubs.

Jump into the thick of the fight, friends, and let your colors be seen and your
voice be heard.

Wishing every one of you, member and non-member, a most profitable season
and year, we are

Your obedient servants,

Gerorce H. Hitpersranp, President.

Beaver, Pa., January 30, 1912.
Currton W. Wuitney, Secretary-Treasurer.

BripGeport, Conn., February 3, 1912.

 

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THE WHITE ROCK CLUB OFFICIALS

Executive Boarp
The President, Secretary-Treasurer.

F. J. COLL,
E. D. SEVERE,
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GEORGE H. HILDERBRAND, Presipent
Meadville, Pa., 1911-1913

At the last annual election of this Club, the following Division and State Officers

were elected:
Division VicE-PRESIDENTS

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StaTE SECRETARIES
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State SECRETARIES

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CLIFTON W. WHITNEY, Secrerary-TREASURER
Southboro, Mass., 1912-1913

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CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I.

Secrion 1. The name of this organization shall be The White Plymouth Rock
Club.
Sec. 2. The address of the Club shall be that of the Secretary-Treasurer.

ARTICLE IJ — Osyects

The objects of this Club shall be: To maintain and improve the breeding of
White Plymouth Rocks, and to advance the interests of their breeders; to stimulate
the interest of the public in their breeding by the dissemination of correct information
concerning them and to affiliate with other organizations for the advancement of
poultry breeding in general.

ARTICLE III — Memspersuip

Section 1. Clause 1. All members in the Club shall be Active members.

Clause 2. Any person of good character and reputation may become an active
member of the Club. Application shall be made to the State Secretary or to the
Secretary-Treasurer, and must be accompanied by the membership fee for one year.

Clause 3. Membership shall be acknowledged by the Club Membership Card,
and shall date from the time of such acknowledgment, terminating on July 1 following,
unless renewed. Membership for any year may be proven by the card of the Club
for that year.

Sec. 2. Clause 1. The membership fee shall be one dollar ($1.00) per year.

Clause 2. A payment of $10, at any time, shall entitle to life membership without
. additional fee, subject to expulsion as provided for in Section 3 of this Article.

Sec. 3. Clause 1. Charges of misconduct of a member shall be made in writing
to the Secretary-Treasurer; they shall be considered, with the defense of the member,
by the Executive Committee, and the said committee may, on a majority vote, expel
the member.

Clause 2. An expelled member may appeal from the decision of the Executive
Committee and the matter shall then be submitted to the vote of the Club members.
Unless the majority of the members voting shall reverse the decision of the Executive
Committee an expelled member shall be ineligible for future membership in the Club.
If the expelled member is a “‘life member” the Club will deduct one dollar per year
for the actual term of membership and refund the balance.

ARTICLE IV — Orricers

Section 1. The officers of this Club shall consist of a President, five District
Vice-Presidents, a Secretary-Treasurer, a State Secretary in each State having member-
ship in the Club, and an Executive Committee consisting of the President, Secretary
and three members, to’be elected annually.

Sec. 2. Clause 1. The general supervision and conduct of the affairs of the
Club shall be vested in the Executive Committee.

Clause 2. The Executive Committee shall carry out the instructions of the
Club, shall authorize expenditures (but no expenditures shall be authorized beyond
the assets of the Club), shall devise means to carry out the objects of the Club, shall
make such rules as may be deemed necessary during the year for the conduct of meet-
ings, the awarding of prizes, etc., and shall perform such other duties as are delegated
to it by this Constitution.

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Clause 3. The President shall carry out the instructions of the Board, shall
approve proper and authorized claims against the Club, shall fill vacancies in office,
shall preside at such general meetings as he’ may attend, and shall perform such other
duties as are herein provided, or such as are customary to the office and not herein
otherwise delegated.

Clause 4. The Vice-President of districts in which meetings are held shall
assume the duties of the President when from any cause the President is unable to
act.

Clause 5. The Secretary-Treasurer shall, as Secretary, conduct the general
correspondence and keep the records of the Club. He shall, as Treasurer, collect
all money due and shall pay from the funds of the Club such claims as are properly
authorized and approved. He shall furnish a bond covering the maximum assets
of the Club.

Clause 6. The Executive Committee, other than the President and Secretary-
Treasurer, shall constitute the Auditing Committee. They shall examine and certify
to the accounts and records of the Club at the end of the fiscal year for which they
are elected.

Sec. 3. The supervision and conduct of the interest of the Club in any State
shall be vested in the State Secretary, who shall be a resident of that State.

Sec. 4. Officers shall be supplied with uniform stationery and may be reim-
bursed for the actual expense of correspondence, and the Secretary-Treasurer may
be paid a salary not to exceed twenty-five per cent of the annual membership fees
and life-memberships received for and during the fiscal year for which he was elected.

ARTICLE V — Votine

Section 1. Clause 1. A list giving the States in each district and a call for
nomin@tions for offices shall be issued on April 1.

Clause 2. Members may make nominations for Vice-President in the districts
in which they reside and for their State Secretary. Five votes shall be necessary
to nominate for Vice-President and two for State Secretary. Nominations will be
received by the Secretary until May 15.

Clause 3. The official ballot shall be issued by the Secretary on June 1, and
shall contain the names of all the nominees. All members shall be entitled to vote,
and the polls shall remain open at the Secretary’s office until July 1.

Clause 4. Ballots shall be returned in a double enclosure or envelope with
the member’s name on the back of the outer envelope, but no voter’s name shall
appear on or in the ballot or inner envelope. Envelopes shall be opened and votes
counted in the presence of at least three members of the Club who will certify to the
accuracy of the count. The outer envelope shall be removed and destroyed before
the ballot envelopes are opened.

Clause 5. A plurality of votes cast for any office shall constitute election to
that office. In event of a tie vote the President shall dissolve the tie.

Clause 6. An officer shall remain in office until his successor is elected or ap-
pointed.

Sec. 2. Clause 1. The President shall declare any office vacant and shall
fill it when the correspondence of that office shall have been neglected for a period
of more than thirty days. '

Clause 2. The President may declare any office vacant and shall fill it upon a
request by a majority represented by that office.

Clause 3. Appointments of the President will take effect at once and hold until
the next annual election.

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ARTICLE VI — Commrirrers

Section 1. The President may appoint committees to prepare for and handle
any special matter, meeting, event or action.

Sec. 2. A Vice-President may appoint committees to prepare for and handle
any matter, meeting, event or action pertaining only to his district.

Sec. 3. A State Secretary may appoint committees to prepare for and handle
any matter, meeting, event or action pertaining only to his State.

Sec. 4. The Executive Committee may decide for the best interest of the Club
whether any meeting, matter, event or action shall be considered general, special,
district or State.

ARTICLE VII — MEetincs

Section 1. Annual meetings of the Club will be for the election of President,
Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Committee, to discuss and decide any changes
in the Constitution or measures for the good of the Club and to act on any business
not properly covered by the Executive Committee.

Sec. 2. The annual meeting place will be decided by the vote of the entire
Club membership. In addition to a general annual meeting there shall be a District
annual meeting in each of the five districts. Meeting place of these meetings will
be decided by the members of said district.

Sec. 3. Clause 1. Special meetings as may be deemed advisable will be ar-
ranged for by the Executive Committee and announcement of the time and place
will be made at least thirty days before such meeting.

Clause 2. Special District meetings may be arranged for by the Vice-President
of any district and announcement made as per Clause 1.

Clause 3. State meetings may be held at such time and place as the members
from any State may decide by vote. Such vote shall be requested by the State Secre-
tary and he shall notify each member in the State of the place and time of said meeting.

Clause 4. Special meetings may be called at the request of three members
for a State or ten for a District meeting, or may be arranged for by the proper officers
without request. Notice of such meetings shall be given members in the territory
covered by the meeting.

Sec. 4. Inthe absence of proper presiding officers at General, District and State
meetings, a chairman will be chosen and a clerk appointed who will send a copy of
the minutes to the Secretary.

ARTICLE VIII

Section 1. A year book or register shall be issued each year and shall contain
a full list of members, the Constitution and its amendments, the report of the
annual election, the rules adopted by the Executive Committee, the report of officers
for the preceding year, records and announcements of the Executive Committee,
and essays and papers by the members. This shall be carefully edited and the Execu-
tive Board may insert or omit any matter at their discretion. The expense of the
publication may be defrayed by subscription or by paid advertisements of members.

Sec. 2. Notices and announcements may be issued through the poultry press,
but notices and announcements so made shall be sent to at least three Papers, and
those of the Secretary-Treasurer to the offices of all papers with a circulation of ten
thousand or more.

Sec. 3. By a majority of votes cast an official publication may be adopted
for one year for the Club for any District or for any State.

Sec. 4. Stamped envelopes shall be issued with ballots and otherwise as may
be necessary to obtain the opinions and wishes of members.

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has been the claim for our White Plymouth Rocks
ever since we began breeding them nearly thirty
years ago. Not only as a fancy fowl do we make
this claim, but as egg producers as well.

U. R. Fishel’s

success in the poultry business is attributed to the
one thing, viz: White Plymouth Rocks. Remember
we have 120 acres devoted to the one breed. All
the birds are reared on free farm range, therefore
their superiority in every way to other White Rocks.
Our winnings at twenty-two largest shows and five
expositions surely are proof enough that our

White Plymouth Rocks

are “the Best in the World.” Our sixty-four page
catalogue is the largest and finest poultry catalogue
ever issued. Send twenty-five cents for a copy
worth dollars to any White Rock breeder. Exhibi-
tion Birds, Selected Breeders and Utility Fowls for

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BABY CHICKS. EGGS $10 PER 15
SALE STOCK EGGS $10 PER 100

U. R. Fishel, Box 9, Hope, Ind.

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ARTICLE IX

Section 1. Amendments to this Constitution may be submitted to the Secretary
by members, ninety days before the annual meeting. A copy of the proposed amend-
ments shall be submitted by the Secretary to all Club members sixty days before
the annual meeting. A proposed amendment will become a part of the Constitution
upon receiving a majority vote at the annual meeting.

AMENDMENTS

The following amendments have been submitted by the members, and a mail
vote on same is hereby called for by the President. The ballot enclosed must be re-
turned to the office of the Secretary on or before January 1, 1913. Should amendment
to Article IV, Section 1, be passed the President and Secretary-Treasurer will necessarily
remain in office until the taking of the next mail vote under the revised Article IV,
Section 1.

AMENDMENT TO ArtTicLE VII, Section 3

Change to read:

State meetings may be held at such time and place as the members from any
State may decide by vote. Such vote shall be taken by the Secretary and he shall
notify each member in the State of the place and time of said meeting. The Secretary
shall have the option of calling such vote at the time he considers best for all interests.

AMENDMENT To Articte III, Secrion 3, CLause 1

The following section to be added to the above mentioned article:

Each State having a paid-up membership of fifteen or more members may organize
itself into a State branch. The presiding officer of such branch shall be vested in
the office of State Secretary provided for elsewhere. Such State branch shall have
the right of collecting additional dues from the members of its State, if provided for
by a majority vote of the members of said State. ;

Such State branch shall have the right to award prizes at its annual meeting
place, paying for same from its own funds, such prizes being in addition to those
awarded by the national organization.

The dues of the State branch may be fixed at any sum desired by said branch
but not to exceed fifty cents a year.

All members of the State branch must be members of the national organization
to be eligible to receive prizes or other benefits from either or both the national organiza-
tion and the State branch.

AMENDMENT To Articte V, Section 1, CLAUSE I

Date of nominations for offices to be changed from April 1 to June 1

AMENDMENT To ArticLe V, Section 1, CLAUSE 2
Date for closing of nominations to be changed from May 15 to August 1

AMENDMENT To ArticLEe V, Section 1, CLAUSE 3
Changing date for the issuing of the official ballot from June 1 to August 15. Also
changing date for closing of the polls from July 1 to September 15.

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Secretary-Treasurer of The White Plymouth
Rock Club, is also Editor of this Journal.

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AMENDMENT To Articte VIII, Secrion 1
Changing the paragraph:
The expense of the publication, etc., to “‘ The expense of the publication may be
defrayed by subscription, paid advertisement, and from the treasury, provided that
the treasury shall not be depleted beyond reasonable amount by such expense.”

AmEnpDMENT To Articte VIII, Section 2
By addition of:
At each annual meeting of the national organization an official organ of the
Club may be chosen.

AMENDMENT TO Artic.e VIII, Section 3
Omit entirely.
AMENDMENT To ArticLe VIII, Section 4
Changing the word:
“Shall” as used in stamped envelopes shall be issued, to the word “ may,” thus
reading, “stamped envelopes may be issued.”

AMENDMENT TO ArticLEe IX, Section I

Changing to read:

Amendments to this Constitution may be submitted to the Secretary ninety days
prior to the annual election time. A copy of the proposed amendments shall be sub-
mitted by the Secretary, to all Club members, on the ballot for the annual election.

The proposed amendment will become a part of the Constitution upon receiving
a majority vote at the annual election.

AMENDMENT To ArTICLE V, SEecTIoN 1, CLausE 6.
Changing to read:
All officers shall be elected for the term of one year and may be re-elected at each
annual election at the discretion of the members.

AMENDMENT To ArticLE IV, SecrTIon 1

By the additional words “ all these officers to be elected by mail vote to be taken
August 15.”

To read when complete:

The officers of this Club shall consist of a President, five District Vice-Presidents,
a Secretary-Treasurer, a State Secretary in each State having membership in the
Club, and an Executive Committee, consisting of President, Secretary and three
members to be elected annually. All these officers to be elected by mail vote to be
taken August 15 each year.

AMENDMENT To Articte VII, Section 1

Changing the section to read:

Annual meetings of the Club will be held to discuss and decide any change in
the Constitution or measures for the good of the Club, to act on.any business not
properly covered by the Executive Committee, and to install officers. At this meeting
the Secretary-Treasurer will submit an annual report.

AmenpMent To Articte VIII By THe AppitTion oF a SEcTION 5

Which should read:
Section 5. At all shows requesting same, the Club shall offer special prizes or
ribbons on dressed White Plymouth Rocks and on White Plymouth Rock eggs.

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200 Acres Devoted Exclusively to Show Birds

Write us your individual wants; we like to talk and write about our Rocks
THEY WIN THEY PAY THEY WEIGH THEY LAY

 

FORT ANN, NEW YORK, in the Adirondacks
Free Clover Range, Vigorous, Snappy, WHITE ROCKS

A POOR PICTURE, BUT A GOOD BIRD

We
Win

First 8
Utica

First
Schenectady

White
Plymouth
Rock
Special

And
Many
Small
Shows

 

The Underhill Farms, Fort Ann, N. Y.
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HALBACH’S WHITE ROCKS

“Stay White
Strain’

HE greatest winning strain produced. Won
grand championship at Chicago for four
years. In 1911-12 in a class of one hundred

and eighty-six of America’s best White Rocks, I won
first and third Cockerel; first, second and third
Hen; first, third and fifth Cockerel; first and second
Pullet; second and third Pen. Every bird bred
and owned by the writer.

As layers they cannot be excelled

 

 

One customer writes as
follows:

Dear Sir:

Wish to inform you that
the pen of four Pullets won
at our fair and besides this
made a great record of lay-
ing three hundred and sev-
enty six eggs in one hundred
days or an average of ninety
four eggs each in one hun-
dred days.

 

Yours respectfully,

 

GRAND CHAMPION
Best Bird in Show, Detroit, 1912

 

MY GRAND CHAMPION PULLET LAID TWENTY-FOUR EGGS IN TWENTY-FOUR DAYS

H. Ww. Halbach WATERFORD, WISCONSIN

 

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A Pen of Wonderful Winter Layers that Won First and Special for Best Pen
All Varieties inZShow at Detroit, 1912

YOU WANT
The PAYERS

HAT?’S the kind I breed and sell. I can furnish

you with show birds to win at any show. Just

write me about it. Beat out the other fellow.

Also have fine Utility Females at $2.00 each, Males

$4.00 each. Fine Breeding Hens $4.00 and $5.00.

Special Breeding Cockerels $8.00 and $10.00. Bred

right and will produce results. Eggs in season

from my Champion matings at $10.00 per fifteen.
Utility eggs at $10.00 per hundred.

 

a Dee

H. W. Halbach WATERFORD, WISCONSIN

 

 

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CLUB MEETINGS FOR 1912 13

The annual meeting of the parent body will take place at Springfield, Ill., and
will be held with the exhibition of the Illinois State Poultry Association, week of
January 6. The offer of the Illinois State Poultry Association has not been stated,
further than as was published on the election ballot. This reads as follows:

“Not positively stated, but expect to offer seventy-five per cent of entry fees
if over one hundred entries. A purse of $300 to be divided equally on all classes.
Champion cup, champion ribbons.”

A purse to constitute sweepstakes prizes will be given at this show. This purse
has been obtained through the efforts of Mr. Henry Frank and Mr. John Henry Lynch.
These prizes are as follows:

SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES.

$100 for best and largest display.

$50 for second best display.

$25 for the third best display.

These prizes to count on points as follows:

Ten for first, 8 for second, 6 for third, 5 for fourth, 4 for fifth, 2 for sixth and 1
for seventh place.

To be eligible for this prize a breeder must be entered in all five classes.

£50 for first pen.

$25 for second pen.

$15 for third pen.

$10 for fourth pen.

$5 for fifth pen.

$3 for sixth pen and $2 for seventh pen.

$30 for first cock.

$20 for second cock.

$10 for third cock.

$5 for fourth cock.

$3 for fifth cock.

$2 for sixth cock, and $1 for seventh cock.

These same prizes will be paid on cockerels, hens and pullets.

At the time of going to press we have already received subscriptions towards
these prizes for $345. Several hundred breeders are still to be heard from and every-
thing points to the fact that we will pay every prize as designated above; however,
in the event we do not collect quite enough money, the money will be paid out on a
pro rata basis of what we have in hand at show time; if, however, we receive more, the
prizes will be increased on the same pro rata basis.

(Signed) Henry Frank, Jr.
Maple Farm, Tinley Park, Ill.

This club makes the following offer for this meeting:

In consideration of the Illinois State Poultry Association Exhibition having been
chosen the place of the annual meeting of The White Plymouth Rock Club, this club
offers to the exhibitors at this Exhibition that are members of The White Plymouth
Rock Club, the following:

For the best display, a handsome silver cup.

To the winner or winners of the best cock, best hen, best cockerel, best pullet
and best pen, a magnificent medallion ribbon, a separate ribbon being donated to
each class. These ribbons are not of the usual character, but expensive and beautiful.

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The Rockandotte Farms
White Rocks have years of careful

; breeding back of them,
following back in the same line to the old “ Harry
Graves” Strain that were the sensation in their
day. Is it any wonder that birds of our own breed-
img can go into the large shows of the country and
win Five Firsts and other prizes on Ten Entries
and Four Firsts on Five Entries? Only the highest
class of breeding by people that know how can do
this. We have more and better ones this season
and can fit you out with Winning Show Birds, or
the highest class breeders. We also breed White
Wyandottes that are making the same Records.

Write US for full particulars on either stock or eggs) REMEMBER
WE have a RECORD. Telephone Marlboro Exchange.

ROCKANDOTTE FARM, SOUTHBORO, MASS., R. 10
W. R. GRAVES MRS. 8. H. GRAVES

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The Hen of Profit

IS THE HEN THAT LAYS

 

This has been demonstrated too often to be doubted

Hen No. 717: Lady Snow Ball

The leader of leaders at the Missouri
Contest was bred and owned by me.
She is only one of many in my flocks.
As show winners they are as superior.

Send for my catalogue

J. A. Bickerdike, Millersville, Ill.

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In addition to the above offers this club will give to the winner of third ribbon in any
one of the five classes one dollar in each class; to the winner of the fourth ribbon in
any one of these classes the sum of seventy-five cents. To be eligible the present or
past members’ dues must be paid up to July, 1913, before December 1, 1912. New
members may compete if their membership is received on or before December 15, 1912.

The points under which the cup will be given are the same as those for the Grand
Sweepstakes Prizes offered elsewhere in this premium list for the White Plymouth
Rocks. To compete for the cup and ribbons, exhibitors must have entered at least
one bird in each of the five classes, and there shall be two or more club members com-
peting. For the money prizes exhibitors must be entered in two or more of the five
classes, and there shall be two or more club members competing. The annual meet-
ing of the State branch will be held on Wednesday afternoon of the show. Competi-
tion is open to all exhibitors that are members.

Club meetings will be held in several States.

Magnificent ribbons will be offered on all five classes at each one of these State
meetings. These ribbons are elaborate and expensive, and will cost as much as an
ordinary cup, but are used instead of a cup, as by offering one ribbon on each class,
more members exhibiting at a show will have an opportunity to win something at the
club meeting. Winning will not be confined to some one member.

Where the State meetings have already been arranged for the name of the Secretary
is given. Where not yet announced the members are requested to address the State
Secretary of this club in their State for particulars.

Two division meetings have thus far been arranged.

The Eastern division meeting will be held with the Boston Show, January, 1913.
Special ribbons are awarded on the first prize winners of each class, and the sum of $2
is given to the winners in each class of third, fourth, fifth and sixth ribbons. These
are extraordinarily good prizes and should mean a large entry. :

The Southern division meeting will be held at Baltimore, Md., in December.
George O. Brown, Secretary of the Association at Baltimore, Md., will advise as to
their show offer. At this meeting are being offered a silver cup for best display, a hand-
some rosette for second best display, and one dollar each on the five classes to the third
and fourth ribbon winners.

The following States are at this date entitled to a State meeting:

Massachusetts at Springfield, December 9, address George W. Pike, 5 Madison
Avenue.

Connecticut, New Haven, November 20, address W. J. Maher, Box 1525, New
Haven.

New York, Albany, address Adolph Schwind, Chatham, N. Y.

New Jersey, address State Secretary.

Pennsylvania, address State Secretary.

Arkansas, address James V. Johnson, Little Rock.

The following States have nine or more members and would be eligible to receive
the ribbons as will all other States, if they have fifteen members on or before December
15, 1912.

California, address State Secretary.

Georgia, address State Secretary.

Indiana, address State Secretary.

Iowa, address State Secretary.

Ohio, address State Secretary.

Virginia, address State Secretary.

W. Virginia will be considered with Virginia,

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White Hill

F a r MEADVILLE
PENNSYLVANIA

 

 

Breeding Exhibition

WHITE ROCKS

under the supervision of

G. H. HILDERBRAND

 

 

G Our Birds are white, with
yellow legs, bay eyes, and
have the winning type. We
condition them and ship them
to you, ready to win. Write us.

 

 

 
 

Snow Krinc. Ownep sy Conecrest, Moopus, Connecticut

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White Plymouth Rocks

LEXINGTON STRAIN

BRED

FIRST: Tolay. Many will not have any other
and come back every year.

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Good Pullets. Extra fine Cockerels this fall.

 

 

 

SAMUEL KNOWLES

46 Lincoln Street Lexington, Massachusetts

 

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CONECREST

@ We wish merely to remind
you that we are breeding here
a proven strain of White
Rocks, the worth of which
has been demonstrated re-
peatedly in show season and
out of season; that it is our
sincere aim to give a dollar’s
worth of White Rock value
for every dollar invested here;
and that a postal addressed
to us at MOODUS, CON-
NECTICUT will bring our
interesting booklet.

eee CONECREST

BOSTON WINNERS, 1912.
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ROSTER OF MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING
UP TO JULY, 1913

The following members’ dues in this club have been paid for the year ending
July 1, 1913, and they are accordingly entitled to the full benefits of the club and are
recommended to all poultry keepers as honorable breeders of the great breed for
which this club stands.

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CALIFORNIA
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ARTHUR A. PETERS: ii ccevceeeeeg be ceetsesense 2445 Franklin Street, Denver
CONNECTICUT
CHARLES: Wi (BAUSERiocesean 5944448 3 Qeneioegaesarye tee Route 20, Danbury
Ropert A. BROWN: coho gana swans dated Os bara Route 4, Box 72, Rockville
RS CHALKERY nictnpipatnceeeios.g 58 Rig lias en greek Gb heal eRdinnimanaeedee Higganum
Eis Wi CROCKER b stasersusctnioiviaiseas ip Vides ded bDe Sd mula enews x giantp ann eee East Hampton
CYRIS, CRIMMIUS.. .oc2c de hansmmdasanmnennede ecu» Glenbrecken Farm, Noroton
Joun DmwriksON.......... 006. e eee eee 144 Elizabeth Street, Norwich
FRANK PNOSt tc cnaciie wosas a aca. gab icnhbecncw nee ae = 60 Ward Street, Norwich
De PiseP WACK estes asta Se 2S Soa 5 arab ace gaed tansy pena re Sosa a attenteaapie bin aes Oronoque
HENRY: GREEN ctenscccanie ous Wink 4 Gwen neuen 586 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven
Mr. Ry Gi HENRICKS.0c:ccesaneryngeau restau rele Wilson Street, Bridgeport
WashincTon HOLT,..5 os 6230 sraddaweceadere sures R. F. D. 2, Box 53, Norwich
A. By HOPKINGs ¢.5 xeanatenheicrynharcnnaaeceraduean es R. F. D. 260, Windsor
Pauy. Ps IVES ise ese sees oe 555544600449 0s SoM eee bane te aa Rbaean Guilford
Bi Kes) JUDD chs ois int 583-249 SMEAR Eh Got sche bait hanasu d sae te Montowese
CHranues.B, LOOMISs. icin doo.8 bod wantnanindug akties ys Pa oI OREA Reed Manchester
Wiuram T. MAHER.... 2... ee eee 8 Lattney Place, West Haven
FRANK M@RRICE: 4 324502104 4ye eanee canteaauanmueced4 174 Benton Street, Hartford
Wocort: C. PAUMER sp nqussentviunssn tra siodoneiabanse coosgone Stonington
Ream O.PARKER: sccncnsnes caanss amare enews 652 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven
Rotanp A. REUWET.... 0... eee eee 182 Joy Street, New Haven
 

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White Rock Club Champtons
are at Rancocas

 

 

 

 

 

EDWIN pcan
ROSE OF RANCOCAS CORNERSTONE

First Pullet at Buffalo and the Club First Cockerel at Pittsburgh and the
Female Champion, 1911 Club Champion Male for 1912

HEN Rancocas Poultry Farm decided to add a

heavy breed we chose the White Rocks as being

: the best all-around fowl in the world. In order

to maintain the same high standard in this variety that
Rancocas had already attained in White Leghorns, we pur-

chased as foundation stock, M. L. Chapman’s entire flock.
This strain of White Rocks has been one of the

Largest Winners of New York and Boston for many years

We now have a flock of several hundred birds, sired by the Club
Champion Male, 1912, third Cock at Madison Square Garden, 1910,
third Pen Prize Male at Madison Square, 1910, and other noted males.
We can furnish at reasonable prices, breeding birds of exceptional quality
or guaranteed winners for any show.

Catalogues and further particulars about the World’s
Largest Poultry Farm upon request

Rancocas Poultry Farm
Box 000  BROWN’S MILLS, NEW JERSEY

Joet M. Foster, President M. L. Cuapman, Manager Breeding
and Exhibition Department

 

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Dist Ges RUN GES oiz pace ian pisicaivs wr Spaatincensiocentnd Sted imei oo ae ee on ee Stratford
Wee Oe DROGERS 3 ra c srt i hct Gomi Sm acinil di Se daadadandnbscade beau aL 161 Main Street, Norwich
He ROS Saha c aida a28 narash punk teh Gcenne Gna Beane foaSion 48 Hinkley Street, Norwich
Cod: RUSSEL ao ciacataeaaaead Wak achananeaninn ena da kaa Conecrest, Moodus
RAUL SCHUMAN d.sauau- sida saa seomee ee ae ee TIE nee en West Hartford
(Co Di SHERMAN iota ton nents MMI eGR ote 83 Peck Street, Norwich
JAMES F-. SULLIVANG ac cmcdatetead Han. ger o Pinmpiy Smlebiegoinnes Box 112, Glenbrook
Witttam T. Swift) ;<s52220908egers vine saeers 02 84 Martin Street, West Haven
WILiiAM TayLor......... 0000 eee ee Box 346, Pequot Poultry Farm, Southport
CHartes FH: WARD. Jccccuwiear kes yabuee yet d a4 bemeeeeay Route 24, Bethel
DELAWARE
Cuares NOELLE..........00-0. 000 eee eee 1801 Lancaster Avenue, Wilmington
GEORGIA
BACON: 82: TAY WOOD 4 ds. Janae d SADA GR AGRA Da ae are wed ah Ble Dat Guyton
By J COthes..a3ckasncas dog Meet ARR 321 Gas Building, Atlanta
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RulGoHOokSiis. aanicinsnnen ae urenaanearrss 229 North Moreland Avenue, Atlanta
Prank Je SRIMABYS 2\c'cicgstin Meee tlie aaa deacon amie Rd Sacnme ented Clarksville
Henry W. LESTER eens geessanenen a eowaenbeawnieseseccares ewes Thomasville
Eels JAMES; [Riccres sa5 4 op eeeeeed eee RaeeeEw Enea Lock Drawer C, Adrian
IDAHO :
W,. As KINGStiy's.coccccasasoo eegeeeeeees 310 Capitol Avenue, Idaho Falls
ILLINOIS
Percy, M:: GRABS, os ssicdncnaadl otshe0sooesa ewe eae eee Box 137, Reynolds
bs Ay DOOLMTRLB gia scsi ica vies ewe ee wie y de abe Orchard or Farm, Waukegan
HENRY PRANK 3 g:ca-c pine idd ues auiueacionde alc Oodaak edu R. F. D. 2, Tinley Park
ALICE M: HEDGES. 00.4.5 ce eacher a catia eran ens 506 West 5th Street, Pana
RAY SCARGUIEE xp jra.t nce ene aed ah TRAIAN BASH AED bRcin ncnaleen Glasford
TE BRAMURT co ccenaa cate eek AEA diene e eee Aad & told a des Eldorado
E.. Be Bp piGics¢.:.naenciacceseanicie aa nace 87 East Washington Street, Chicago
Sunpate Pourrry Farm (Ira H. Sheet)... 0... eee Macomb
Jorn? HH LYNCH pissy tac aeakgavene Ue sia dows girdaeaceaey ay Edwardsville
INDIANA :
Lumis BooTHE..............002 0000 ee 126 East Barker Avenue, Michigan City
Guy DAY vase mou ensy eens SONS U Lee eh) e Gee NsNe a4 eS Route 1, Jeffersonville
WR. GREER sores i senn gs anges bees bn be BSRERS ees oe eee e eee ae Auburn
Martin HANSON.......-0... 0000 e eee eee ee 314 West Douglas Sixees, Goshen
Oscar. Py HACKIERG:: ¥o5 26 ne4490-5 Sovinaee eit Es PERE a be Eee Elnora
Mrs. MELVIN HAVENS.... 0... eee eens Route 7, Box 70, Shelbyville
WILLIAM: MORE Bs iicctslinssoites tack bie dbase 8 GbE OA Guguaunsnadee Heed Mamie Farmland
Mars. AtMA, Co REB Is ccidissanissiags toe aed 9-4. Bi teleonailyn dah deh dlanciceelatg ica a bh hae Littles
UI. RAB ISH EBs wor. sysiere a eagatnuniceciclaunee aah a hde had ahaa ats cole GRMN Nabe Weak Hope
Dy T ROOUSi: oo ice nana d Foe mtidubneh hi-cRRARee eae e RERIRR CES Comersville
IOWA
NOW FARK eccxas a aareenmeicnsaiyes aetananad 115 5th Street, North, Oelwein
Caanies: Ay Gutiiesgira com atioaatesen onc, gag indignant naighgiet gatas a ciao ae Berwick
Be A OLE WAN oon ga uaninstomene ot acral ite ciate s walelgae nian mele ate alg aiken Lytton
GEORGE-LEWIS3 ch ss sacauaasndnye Rageeenenas ae R. F. D. 3, Box 36, Dubuque
JO: MUCHAS sso 5-0¢t. ne gsceengeeden saan 1112 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine
Craupe H, PEVERILL 1. cccagesdacevernctagaaans 104 East 4th Street, Waterloo
Ep By .RistRias ooc.ctneneee eee se Sa Se oF es o48 5 tarot whe vO be weber Stanhope
A. Ds SEVERE Sse. o55 355-4384 F062 codaedn Wore bw oboe ane tea Wuhenluagtana need Dows
De MEST GEEY cis mioiccdine vaietineaeed U do-at nde Gwe dd apna Convenient Hotel, Muscatine
KANSAS
LS) CUAR Vaiss 34 Peden shanks Ga RRMNEN HN GAA Reese dd goin soe Troy
FIUTCHINSON BROS... .awnwnn nei bi da RR RETA Aa aM ReRCE RRS Kee Bellaire
Ty Tis POLLOCK ytecnn scat ein eae Wares Raw ae 1050 Splitlog Avenue, Kansas City
OTe VINSONHAL ERS siecsa diese ae tioeginaene Aw a's Scag gland as Agee Sue b-4 en Bellaire
Dil, WARD a cocina: capers pada ama LA eee gn eURR Kaa we wReED a eEe eeed Severance
 

 

BROOKSIDE FARM

Cuas. E. Kesty, Proprietor Bioomspurc, PENNA.

Breeder and
Exhibitor of

WHITE
ROCKS

Exclusively

Satisfaction guaranteed’
Correspondence

oe 5
solicited First Cock, Aso winner of SIOOPLYmouTH
“Roun CHALLENGE CUP, SCRANTON

BROOKS! DE FARM—BLOOMSBURG, PA.

   

 

Our birds have
won for years at
the leading
shows including

Madison Square
Garden

Absolutely
pure white with
plenty of size
and type

 

 

 

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KENTUCKY
Mrs: Quanmia Lis CHURCH. ci iicec ease fae a ba ede died ee eodeecad palace Paducah
Masi ES: JACK ic cis esicnd enanenaeeaaeed ss 647 Chestnut Street, Lexington
ARTHUR JACK, siiivaoumec ton nnidadaadeton mnie 647 Chestnut Street, Lexington
J: COLEMAN NEBR i 2.4.2.24420 qnacaiandane¢ 4 eaeeae sce aan aR Richmond
LOUISIANA
)s Hs: BEGANGER onan marannnaeny ave teeeonsena ns apmammlgieieanetaas Houma
MAINE
Js, As CHADBOURNE: nnaundeete aacddaytxdees 66444 podem a RTE eee Bridgton
MARYLAND
ALEXANDER .R. FARELYY «oo sgees6 Ges eeasn helena ds Ree he Se pez Rees Se Roslyn
JF DEPANDORP 5:32. wrcdinicaahaece sea dias doe ib mshaitise te dibertucsantaes Garrett Park
Amuerst B. Ha ............... Senses at NGO ese ee net Arlington
JOHN TT. WOU is cieitio's Gs duetatdncerauarare wee 8 Pine Grove Poultry Farm, Halethrope.
WIULTAM J. SNYDER, “ip si. 2de-cnuag se rammauincoRea ee ngnnea rede ....Rohrersville
Ria SB: LEB icelcgui dnb ae ta eaiies Sid Aco abaiernnbectatie A Goan neue Ail d Kensington
Die LAB Bis a ipptesscati ctr tw toa wea ee acaeces sana ata Sesto wean an fe aahaeid cae Rockland Farm, Benson
GEORGE SCHRADE’s 0.c.< caccnisincamend ey Minlia a deren ko walrae dale eal Sykesville
MASSACHUSETTS
Tue Bay Farm CoMPAany...ccccscceseeeeceeseeraseowaesueesoes Island Creek
Oscar: He CLAPP yi ieysecaewses 5.49 Wee RAB eeROR Ree EN OELLE REAR LE GS Campello
Wituiam D, DeCost. oes n¢ee5583 5 54445 be Renown Washington Street, Dedham
M. Appatr FRAZAR. 1.0... ccc eee e eee Knollwood Farm, Townsend
Harry L. FREEMAN... 2622 eens Box 74, South Duxbury
Mags. |\Gs GALBRAITH Scie ins b Nod Peds essa RRR A e auseuniemre ne Southboro
We ReGRAV ES oar sesecice er aaniiduumanectiaess agen phe ba Rockandotte Farm, Southboro
SAMUEL KNOWLES.............00 00 cece eee neers 46 Lincoln Road, Lexington
Harorp E. Lewis........ 0.000: e eee eee eee 70 Mt. Vernon Street, Lawrence
MARTIN: Ji MOONE i 3.4.54 aseenlmmennars aes agence de PaaS Fair Haven
Wituram Barry Owen........... Lock Box 176, Owen Farms, Vineyard Haven
CWE WEIN Ee crs. saretece aac ivGnii Worst Sees ec a Sea bse neta hala cea Southboro
Maurice F. DELANO............0 0000000 ee Owen Farnis, Vineyard Haven
MICHIGAN
JANE SAL: DALEY Ss ealecpceninwenisl eas Ade eReR EOE wee ess ceeeaeeod Mohawk
WILtraM Jn. GOETZ sasocsadeumgaavs seuenes4ces 1150 Cadillac Avenue, Detroit
EARL. Jj, JERFSnnaagiay pinonds 284 eS FSS a Ee R. F. D. 2, Box 58, Ottawa Lake
Crarves Hy RING~ sade 924 sae bog e4 eeonedake Kenholme Farm, Decatur
MINNESOTA
LS: DAVEREY 224505 G4 454 Vea pocnseea ad brs desde dads R. F. D. 1, Crookston
De DAN GSTAD of esis dose evinaiegetasiece yb 6 bare Adah Gee ne Sopcuaesd R. F. D. 1, Climax
MISSISSIPPI
Wiriiam J. BRINKLEY 6s 6 is pc ce awk daa eng a eanulndinmede de ces Box 11, Iuka
Mirtrs, POULTRY “FARM. cad. ciu eaemerneaiian + Yan oe aetna Bt Byhalia
MISSOURI
Epw. FUHRMAN..............- doobathisgoone Route 1, Eureka Stock Farm, Oregon
Pe OMS) GAS Sig i 8 09 6 actors dea. ck ci ences entenryannes ean aeal aloaioa naa as Harrisonville
WADTTAM: TKOGE ss sevsuacsis aucarnten oie aga ee MlaGua deve ey Seweek ews Wright City
ATBERT E.. LDAWRENGES ccc peda dou ws swisnamaxnie ach aeeees oes Box 102, Craig
Drei. LEGER jncovos cals pace ade tees SE E408 838 3 Monroe Avenue, Kirkwood
Mgrs: J. Wi PORTERS ache ys a8a.nd 95.2256 se aR EA Ew ARG RET ORE REG Holt
Ji CoRICKEN ss 5.4.4.5 a we Wieehe Meee es Moatgaed PRE decninmipiadens Rak Ba Clarence
TON, WHITTEN: ¢ tyseeseeese dein pa diane aan adandme 115 Elm Street, Trenton
NEBRASKA
VEE RUB TLE scsi 5 5 pear S ates pags 0s ccs shales Rees tei Gc aetna boa hte ean Mitchell
Mas,. JOHN: FIENSLER . 0 6 sca sates a a cement niinwltea wns mae Box 16, Malcolm
TIENRY LIN KE aoncntisce aon eotng y aaeniee hoe oa aban hacienda neo oo & R. F. D. 4, Wayne
Fs Pi RANIREN saci o-ectantarnigecna saedhipgivas na Ae AG aRR ARO aera a ats Lincoln
Co Ma REYNOLDS: « anon aucasisitiante ee een ead euneds 4a suena Fullerton
 

Standard White Plymouth Rocks
The Birds of Quality

The best is none too good, we breed no others.

Forty-four out of a possible seventy ribbons was our last
year’s record at the shows. Write ycur wants and be
assured of fair treatment. Address

STANDARD WHITE ROCK FARM

 

 

 

Port-Ideal-on-the- James WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
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MY BIRDS WIN ™ ™xs#o%."°"
AND NEST
AS a small breeder, I have the opportunity to always
know the profitable birds. I weed out quickly the
unprofitable ones, which means that you buy eggs and steck
from SELECTED BIRDS ONLY.
Write me today
LESTER T. P. REINERKE
86 WOODLAWN AVENUE CRAFTON, PENNSYLVANIA
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NORTHUP’S “PIONEER STRAIN”

White Rocks

Leaders for over 25 years
It is no exaggeration when we say we shipped stock and eggs all over the country long
before most of the breeders of today ever saw a ‘‘White Rock” and we now have on our
facm the most up-to-date flock in America. No inflated prices charged for either stock or
eggs. Write your wants specifically so we can inform you quickly what we can do for
you. Honest treatment guaranteed.
Eggs: Specia Imatings all yards $3.00 per 15. | Eggs for Incubator Hatching $7.00 per 100.

NORTHUP’S POULTRY FARM
Locx Box 7 NORWOOD, RHODE ISLAND

 

 

 

| White Plymouth Rocks

BRED EXCLUSIVELY AT

BRIERWOOD POULTRY FARM

G. B. Hatron, Proprietor
Secretary-Treasurer Western Pennsylvania White Rock Club

Stock For Sale
Eggs from $2.00 to $10.00 for 15 SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA

 

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NEW HAMPSHIRE
Cuarves I. AKERMAN ..... 0.0.0.0 c eee eee R. F. D. 1, Hampton Falls
BENJSMIN’ Es LOW 25s ced sages bxye eg gacee sop dy datmR SARS Derry
NEW JERSEY
CoC, BURROUGH y: sch cus yesys oo 54eGe eres 2g R eR eeeR EE eae esaeed Clayton
Mz Tks CHAPMAN cc.oin cn So kaenaas eS dy FUSER ES Foy BP ae Brown’s Mills
ANDREW. Si JHARRIS  o.3) p39 Sehdecanere ee oe seams oe aE R. F. D. 1, Quinton
CHARLES: W:. JONES canis nic) Fedde tedeG maa saulgbauaae Slow se wma Holmdel
PRED OG. NEABIB yg cid a54 bao 8 Aled Da hmedana ahd dubia Spring Lake Beach
Ae IG: RUSSELL cowomnye aa teeta GaAEh TA MAMAN N MeRADA CoG Washington
C.. “H. SNEDEKER} 33.u2dccc areas ne aa treaunaedednae aeaees Hamilton Square
WSTOK ER: ceya,: oc cineca ne Sree oe 19 New Street, 79, Trenton
Jc ELA SYMONS: (aysielals avis ppaigie denganaececne patie ES 31 Taylor Street, Orange
Wi. Ni SUAVERNER: oc 2a¢edhdanee se galmbntat é ba oe 4 Sargene pane eaMapeant Westfield
Witiam T. THOMPSON, SR... 12. Box 123, Westmont
Jacos: Ry WiSks sees aus sss senneetesé 27 E. Madison Avenue, Collingswood
WILLIAM WRIGHT cp ocau5 pa 3 5a Seam Lea EROS Sees see ea Winslow Junction
NEW YORK
He As (BAYES oo eih oohd asa 0k GOREN Rae SULA OREN NG DEE OER Huntington
Percy To: CALUENDER(: 6.0.6,5,.45058-40 dadntadcanie Meoudod bude ge bees Ml bamueies Chatham
JACOB DAMME oo 4..4acthimanatieiiniiad J28S Sai2448 .....12 Clover Street, Yonkers
ELOYD M;, DODGE. <522.44.49 nevrmaenae ain pdwn 218 OR 84 le dea R. F. D.1, Frankfort
CLAUDE D) EDGERTON b:65.5.05.4 securing Ha TRGa HRY EIAE KANE 4A TROON Hartsdale
Ge We BIN OPT asf acento ea tiag a Hae een 29 Conkey Avenue, Norwich
JAMES: PORSYT Hig ga csniaciamiin eee tas anes Riverside Poultry Farm; Oswego
DD: WSs GRAY cc trun dyyie 4s Wahiamunteieinies Groveland Stock Farm, Groveland Station
RED. GREENE piaaioe e 9 9-0g act otis ik ba Herneaia a a eee otetarh eas R. F. D. 1, Savona
Saw: Pi sGReene ys youn gens mice auld deen ee ees gene's West Fayville, L. I.
R. Mone yt HERZBERG... 1... eee 542 Warren Street, Hudson
Isaac T; MERRY: ohe22ss0e ees 3499444 sddaawews 34 Albany Avenue, Ogdensburg
Hy Ji REINKE: oa5cccoceuue 4 00 OSE eRe oe See ES R. F. D. 4, Canandaigua
Louis: Cy ROGERS! ccsusiagces ee ass saa bo 65 North Water Street, Rochester
HIENRY: Pe SCHWAB scsseuinivi a yeh aide vpehaadndenne haa RE eon ias Irondequoit
Ge Ms SOVERMILE oo 4c gssseuend eb abeappss vadaebesauss 16 Tuxedo Place, Buffalo
ERE SUDTON ademuyaeeus nab ohhh Tena Sten va hale ne OA Mdainnies hu RNa eae Bath
URBAN FARMS) 322 o00/6).4 64 AO RE EEe he noddasaAn ROAD nseKh dade eee hes Pine Ridge
C. G. VREELAND...........000005- Bact ce pak te Sica Se. cage tht ena es cla Salamanca
Mrs. M. C. Van WINKLE... nents Stone Ridge
Rev. Waiter AusTIN WAGNER............------ 31 East Avenue, Middletown
Ty Ee WALDRONG « caceict du Gerace a en hebsintn deel e 77 Mansion Avenue, Ogdensburg
James H. WESTCOTT..............2.0 00000005 22 Arlington Street, Rochester
Es EDWIN WOOLEY aiigiivid chase Sonne amee ere EES wae T BERENS VR EO Fulton
NORTH CAROLINA
Te Ay BUINER Sova dee yaeeeeeereard pea gsaceweee ene en es Winston-Salem
Paur Ps BROWNiscne {Soe8cu. fo noen ee 84 Care American National Bank, Asheville
FRANK Ay POTTS )s 0-0 4 occ cmarik & don tedwanued on ay ate 507 Tenth Avenue, Charlotte
W. A. WortMan & SON... 0.0... nett enn en nes Morganton
OHIO
S$. Wi ATSDOR Fiiccscnn SSAA ano ae eee etka ee so1 East High Street, Mt. Vernon
Berxnap & RUSSELL... 6... eee 402 West Street, Ashtabula
Ri: ©. CAL WELD esihaga daa aaa cnqmine me wamced badilaiemanie ba o.2clncia mays Lyndon
FRANK) COGWELE cacaoscs cai ges ecmenun mae en 668 Dennison Avenue, Dayton
AUBERT iS ON Gap dtinckteed Sgn ae cena gee iae din kina eee oA Bradford
Cuarves E. GARNER......... 0000022005 1025 Edgewood Stréet, East Liverpool
A.J. RHINEMILLER......00.0..0.000. Route 2, Ogden May Poultry Farm, Huron
Lewis R. SMITH...............0 00000. 629 Union Quest Building, Cincinnati
Ax Gy SPAURS ». ugiguig dite o oS 8 8 y load & wilaseue tees dadodavaniecbser’ 302 Hill Street, Xenia
Mrs: Myrtie: Bin "TImBsys:sicssicscacis b vaca dhartad juga hn asob do balandaveancrcrcy dens Lakewood
i: D:. VAN RENSSELABR 24 24.0.tinebisinigal se-nead cong mean aavnneWnelen eames Kent
 

All White Rock Breeders

Should get acquainted with our superb strain.

SHOW STOCK A SPECIALTY

Eggs for hatching and baby chicks from September to June
CATALOG AND MATING LIST FOR THE ASKING

BACON & HAYWOOD

118 SPRINGFIELD AVENUE : 4 GUYTON, GEORGIA

 

 

O. T. VINSONHALER
BELLAIRE, KANSAS

Breeder of Exhibition and Utility
White Rocks. Reasonable prices.

 

 

A. B. HALL  srceper or
White Plymouth Rocks

CLARK’S LANE, ARLINGTON, MARYLAND

 

 

 

 

JAMES H. WESCOTT
ceinp vtitity White Plymouth Rocks

EXCLUSIVELY  ,

- Stock and Eggs in season. Send for list. _I will please you.
22 ARLINGTON STREET, ROCHESTER, N. Y.

 

 

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Was Ae CATTERAUL: 2 433.00 eese4s 52 seamen 1728 South 7th Street, Chickasha
Mas. Re He HINTON Ac. ce ekeaanteaGo 4G sone ae be eee ew eee a4 a a8 Hydro
W.. Jc HORSEMAN 5/5 ssc foe eines ta ueniiiveoniemialere G8 eas Care C. M. Briggs, Elk City
JiecE RODGERS! .c.6:,.0 fad paeanepemeuusaliincedd eee nbnwe amtansietpeie vas Chickasha
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J. OssMAN AREGOOD.........00 0000 e cece eee 434 East Arch Street, Pottsville
W.. M, BALMER wasaxs eve eece chases ase 1944 West Market Street, Pottsville
Wi. Be BECK a5 sncscuninbd eapeaimes eye eed tae P. O. Box 283, Greenville
He P Sy BOT. ag sc Reece bien ck nec eeveeemnee seeds oo ee oan P. O. Box 118, Altoona
HarayY B. BREMSEN, ¢ oa sensuaoroive ane vip ch d bdo eaild lenkie he sonaigasnnanaaar ey ., Legonia
Mrs. L. M. BuckwALTER...........-.00005 814 Elberon Avenue, Philadelphia
JING. Hes HEM OFT scot sus a seeitatiathieniteeca and Da at has ht Ghia leelaises New Castle
Epi Ba PRITZING ERY cach ds eave moadinta hme gitins Ga aeaier wea RTS 3 Lehighton
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G, Dic HIDERBRAND, JRaua usccageneaueeg pagedeagyicawue sve se Siar Meadville
Lesuie JEFPERIS. ¢ 2.0.44 \e's a5 eeaesaeusinynodns ges Red Hill Farm, Bridgeport
CHartes Ey Kesty's ii; cassaaavasaeneanerss vipat este eewere oa eRe Bloomsburg
©. Fe RUMMERS ens nado ns see e ag eee ee eaeges 122 East Wayne Street, Butler
D: H. Me@toun. 32505. passe es db pie rede4 aa Saas See eee es Ruton
Bi Mi. (Cs MCP BAK seo oa daodnachaee a ous 435 Ridge Avenue, Cannonsburg
Je Ge MERCER 55 4 isiicinedionachavn nd ewe neh eta 217 Beltzhoover Avenue, Pittsburg
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ALL-WHITE
POULTRY
YARDS

The home of
“The Quality Kind,”
WHITE
PLYMOUTH
ROCKS

PERCY M. CRABS

PROPRIETOR

REYNOLDS, ILLINOIS

 

Lewis R. Smith

BREEDER OF

White Plymouth Rocks

Won thirteen ribbons in fourteen entries
at Hamilton County Fair, August, 1912.

Stock, Baby Chix and Eggs for Sale
Write for free catalogue.

Poultry Yards: 3522 Evanston Ave.,
Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 

 

Hedges’ Pedigreed
White Rocks

Winners and layers. Trap-nested.
Egg records to 255.
Stock and eggs in season.
Mating list free.

MISS ALICE M. HEDGES

PANA, ILLINOIS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEBSTER’S

 

| GRAVES STRAIN
White Plymouth
Rocks

The New York Champion Winners

C. F. Webster, Prop., Girard, Pennsylvania
E. H. Lightenwalter, Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Charles D. Ettinger, Proprietor
Walter A. Cook, Manager

Henry Frank, Jr., Superintendent
Poultry Department

 

Are birds that are equally as good and
profitable for the Fancier as for the
Breeder and Utility Poultryman.

@ They have demonstrated the past year
at St. Louis, Chicago and Springfield,
Illinois that they have quality to suit the
most exacting Judges and Critics.

@ As Egg Machines and producers of
choice broilers and roasters that mature
quickly, they are without a peer.

@ Breeding Stock of both sexes and all
ages for sale the year round. Eggs for
hatching from January to August.

Catalog sent on request

Correspondence solicited Inspection invited

Maple Farm of Midlothian

 

Post Office, Tinley Park, Illinois
Railroad Station, Midlothian, IIlinois
Telephone Blue Island 362
ROSTER OF MEMBERS — Continued

 

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VERMONT
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OVA - White
Plymouth
= Rocks

Catalog FREE

BACON AND HAYWOOD
613 Springfield Avenue GUYTON, GEORGIA

 

 

 

ROBERT A. BROWN OF ROCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT BREEDS

of High Quality
He has raised a fine lot of birds this year and will sell fine Show or
Breeding Cockerels, Pullets or Yearling Hens. Eggs in season.
A square deal guaranteed. Write or visithim. Address

WHITE ROCK POULTRY FARM
Rosert A. Brown R. 4, Box 112 ROCKVILLE, CONNECTICUT

 

 

 

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STAMINA
PRODUCTIVENESS
BEAUTY

 

 

These words fitly describe our strain of

WHITE
ROCKS

Our foundation stock was of fowls carefully
selected for these — our young are the result
of breeding methods that produce these.

 

 

Our birds are pedigreed, line bred and the
breeding from an established strain of
sufficient size to permit the exclusion of
inbreeding is enforced.

We have no stock for sale this year, but
will have a few settings from our best pens

in March, 1913.

C. W. Wuitney, Manager
PINE RIDGE FARM

Wuite’s CORNERS SouTHBoro, Mass.

 

 

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BOSTON