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Show COLUMBIAN BREED RESULT OF ACCIDENT Just because a White Wyandotte hen found a hole in a fence and crawled through, a new breed of poultry poul-try came into existence, according to the Suburban Life. There was a flock of Barred Plymouth Rocks on the other side of the fence, and, when the eggs of the White Wyandotte were incubated in-cubated the birds were of a kind never seen before. With the size and shape of a Wyandotte, they were marked f like light Brahmas. Rev. B. M. Briggs, who originated the White Wyandottes, was so well pleased with this accidental cross that he mated and culled until he had fixed the type. Thus it is that new breeds are sometimes made. All this happened hap-pened some time before the Columbian Colum-bian exposition, ln honor of which event the new breed was given the name of Columbian Wyandottes. |