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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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and produce a dull black plumage. Infact, the advantage is to the Whites only to the detri-ment of the Blacks thus crossed. I name this because I3cnow that, in the effort to get size, bulk, and character in Whites, some of the biggest Blacks have been and arebeing used for the purpose. Returning, however, to the kernel of the nut—viz.,the alliance, progress and severance of these three sorts—those of the old brigade, like myself, who remember thefirst imported Cochins, and thirty-five years later thefirst draft of Langshans, and still later the making ofBlack Orpingtons, may have solved the problem ofdescent for themselves, and therefore probably will regardthese notes as unnecessary, but in the interval there hassprung up a new generation of fanciers, who, less ex-perienced, would be justified in doubting fhe allianceof these three up-to-dates, Nos. 6, 12 and 18, whichhave now become so dissimilar in structural points asto baffle those of limited experience as to their pedigree.
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THE ORPINGTONS •2: I have heard the British bred Langshans described asOstriches, as Storks, as Malay-crossed, because of theirabnormally long legs. I have heard and also read ofthe Black Orpington being the result of crosses withthe Minorca, the Java, and the Black Rock ( I couldaccept a judicious infusion of the latter), but in thewhole course of my experience have never observed evena suspicion of Minorca in their composition. I havealso heard it suggested in the usual strictly confidentialwhisper that Mr. So-and-So obtained his brilliant greensheen by a cross with the Black Hamburgh! Well, whenone hears such stuff uttered by young men or chatteringprofessors, it seems in the face of such ignorance ex-cusable in me to expose the real position. I have seen pure-bre-d Langshans, both Croad andmodern, with red feathers in hackle and saddle. Per-sonally I did not look upon these blemishes as indicativeof outside or alien color cross. Certainly not; if thereare not such occasional rev

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