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Title: Burpee's farm annual, 1892
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua00watl (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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THOROUGHBRED FANCY POULTRY. i6i
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SHERWOODS. THE BEST GENERAL PURPOSE FOWL EVER INTRODUCED. This new breed of fowls is so called from the Virginia plantation of Mr. Timberlake, where they originated from crosses first made some forty years ago. About 1850 there were introduced among the stock bred on this farm some pure White Games from Georgia. During the period of twenty years these White Games and their progeny were allowed to run at liberty on the farm, intercrossing with the stock of Cochin Chinas and Light Brahmas. The Game cocks being more courageous than the Cochins and Brahmas, the cocks of the latter breeds were after some years entirely removed. In succeeding years the white cocks from these crosses were selected for breeding by Mr. Timberlake's mother, who was a very practical poultry raiser. At the time of her death, some twenty years ago, Mr. Timberlake began selecting the fowls ^Y^th a view of fixing their characteristics in an established breed. The Sherwood derives from its Light Brahma or Asiatic parentage a hea^y rW T body, but is shorter in leg, while also deriving from the Game parentage fuller j breasts. They are very stylish birds; majestic in carriage, with close, compact V \r^l j) bodies ; yellow bills ; beautiful erect combs of medium size ; bright red ear lobes and white plumage with j^ellow legs lightly feathered to the outside toe. They endure the cold weather better than the Asiatics or other fowls of equal size ; the young chicks are also very hardy, the damp weather seeming to have no effect on them. They grow rapidly, mature early, and are fit for broilers at the age of twelve to fourteen weeks ; they are of excellent quality for table use. The Sherwoods are very careful and attentive mothers, yet gentle and tractable to handle. They are very prolific egg producers, and the eggs are of large size and fine flavor and good quality. They are of good size, the cocks weighing 9 to 10 pounds and the hens 7 to 8 pounds each. SHERVAAOODS ^^^^^^ being exclusively^ introduced by us. We will be pleased to have intending purchasers inspect our yards at Fordhook Faem. To those at a distance would say that the illustration above conveys a fair idea of their appearance, having been engraved from photographs. Our Prices for 1892 are : Single cock or cockerel, $5.00 ; pair, $10.00 ; per trio, $14.00. Eggs for hatching, $1.50 per 6 ; $3.00 per 13 ; 30 eggs, $6.00. Mr. Jas. Graham, Jr., Taftville, Conn.,Oct. 1st, 1891, ; Mr. Martin Tipple, Camden, N. Y., Oct. 6th, 1891, writes :—I got 7 chicks out of 12 Sherwood Eggs ; 2 of the i writes:—The Sherwoods seem perfectly hardy ; hatched chicks were killed by boys, leaving 5, 2 cocks and 3 pul- ! about 80 per cent., bright, sprightly chicks, all white and lets; not so bad after all. The chicks grow rapidly and i true to description. The first order is about 3 months seem to be very hardy. I have as nice birds as you 1 old, and four of the cockerels look as if run in the same would want to see. I think they are worth all I paid. I mould. Am much pleased with them. U

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