458 Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. [June 2, 1908. 



White Leghorns. 



White Lfj^liorns are, no (loul)t, an all)in() s))oit from the orii^iiuil Black 

 Spanish, and bred to a dirterent confonnity of type by the Italians. 



Their wIioIh structure and tem,»erament denote the greatest j»recocity, 

 and no doubt the bi'eed can eclipse anythinir and everythiiiL: in egg 

 production in number, under modern conditions of poultry farming. 

 Unalloyeil in Italy, they are active, hirJy, sprightly fowls of great laying 

 capacity. Tn their country of fir.->t adoption, viz.. America, they suH'ei- 

 through want of stamina in continement tlu'Du«h the insertion of lfauibur";li 

 blood. In England they have Vieen crossed with the modf-rn Minoi-ca to 

 obtain purity of colour, or snow white, and while they haw liccn much 



No. 5 White Leghorns, G. H. Arkinstall. 



increased in size, it has been at the expense of egg production. Here in 

 Australia, l)y an infusion of the American and English strains a nietlium bii-<I 

 has been bre<l which eclipses b3th in the matter of sustained egg production 

 in continement. 



In Illustration No. 3 will be found a medium type inclined towards the 

 English, and more of the old-fashioned type of America before the crossing 

 with the Hamburgh took place. 



Illustrations Nos. 29 and 30 are Ixjth single specimens of a (piarter of a 

 century ago. and are splendid types of laying breeds with a good bod}'. 



Illustration No. 6 is a good type of the real An)erican layer, and shows the 

 Hamburgh character in lines and gait and also in temperament. 



They inheiit the intense precocity of the Hamburgh, l<uc with that the 

 very nervous .system which resents confinement and from which the stamina 

 suffers. 



