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Title: The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Leghorn chicken
Publisher: Quincy, IL : Reliable poultry journal 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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put in a few rather dark hens, butguard against getting the matings too far apart. In all thematings the following points should be given prominence inthe selections, siz., size, form, style and vigor. Many breeders, and judges as well, go off after thefeathers of the bird and lose sight of the shape. Study theStandard of Perfection not only in the abstract, but learn toapply it, and by this means it can be fixed in the mind. Al-though the standard describes no limit as to the weight ofLeghorns it offers a premium on size by awarding ten pointsto this section. I like as minimum weights, six pounds forcocks, five pounds for hens and cockerels, and four poundsfor pullets. While believing in these as the lowest weights Iwould not increase any of them more than one pound as amaximum. We must not get them too large, as they willbecome coarse. In the above limits we have a bird that willlay an egg as large as the American classes and be of prac-tical service for the table. W. H. BARKSDALE.
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SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS. SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS. History of Their Development Uniform Flocks Bred Thirty Years Ago—Judges Differed Then More Widely ThanSow—Old Style Leghorns Described—Factors That Have Brought the Brown Leghorns to Their PresentExcellence—Changes In Scale of Points, Shape and Color—Ideal Leghorns of To-day. By Arthur C. Smith. (From the Reliable Poultry Journal. ; IAM very glad to furnish the readers of this book withwhatever knowledge has come within the scope of myobservations during the twenty years that I have beena breeder and exhibitor of this ever popular variety,and those facts which I picked up during the few years prev-ious. It was the ambition of my boyhood to own the bestBrown Leghorns that any one owned and therefore I beganto study them as seen at the shows in my locality, about1880 or a year or two sooner. I have also recollection of a fine flock of these fowls thatwas kept on the next place in the early 70s. These may ormay not have b

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