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Title: Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Drevenstedt, John Henry, 1857- Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company American Poultry Publishing Company
Subjects: Orpingtons
Publisher: Quincy, Ill., Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co. Buffalo, N. Y., American Poultry Pub. 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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nner at oneend of the big showarena, the real Orp-ington boom in theUnited States andCanada was launched,As an advance agent,William Cook was ina class by himself; asa salesman he was astar, the prices real-ized by him for Orp-ingtons at that mem-orable show beingexceedingly high. Thepurchasers were menof wealth, as a rule,who realized thataside from the fancyend, it would be agood business invest-ment as well. A studyof the comparativegrowth in popularityof Orpingtons in D.E. Hales article on another page of this book, will justifythe judgment of these shrewd fanciers who bought at thattime. Orpingtons First Exhibited in America in 1890 Single Comb Black Orpingtons were first exhibited atthe show of the Massachusetts Poultry Association, heldin Boston in 1890. Single Comb Buff Orpingtons werefirst exhibited at the Madison Square Garden Show, NewYork, in 1899, twelve single entries and one pen being thetotal. In 1901 the entries increased to nineteen single and WM. COOK,Orpington Fowl
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THE ORPINGTONS 13 one pen of Buff Orpingtons, Charles Vass, Wallace P.Willett and Doctor Paul Kyle being the exhibitors. AtNew York in 1909-10 157 Single Comb Buff, 122 SingleComb Black, 134 Single Comb White, 17 Diamond Jubilee,5 Spangled, 25 Rose Comb Buff, 13 Rose Comb Black and5 Rose Comb White Orpingtons were exhibited, makinga total of 478 Orpingtons—a remarkable showing for abreed of English origin in a country where there wassupposed to be little demand for poultry with white skinand white or black shanks. Early Orpington History Wallace P. Willett of East Orange, New Jersey, sendsus the following interesting data relating to the early his-tory of the Orpingtons: I have been keeping fancy fowls as a hobby not as abusiness, except in certain instances, for the past fiftyyears, and have handled in that time almost every name-able breed from the Shanghai, my first purchase in theeighteen fifties, up to the present time. I was always onthe lookout for something new and promising

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