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Rural School Leaflet 



Fig. i . — Plymouth Rock 



Single comb, small to medium, five points, finely 

 serrated, erect 



The single comb is to be found on the largest number of breeds of fowls, 

 some of which are as follows: Plymouth Rock (Fig. i), White Leghorn 

 (Fig. 2), White-Faced Black Spanish (Fig. 3), Black Minorca (Fig. 4), 



Java, Rhode Island Red, Silver 

 Gray and Colored Dorking, Cochin, 

 Langshan, Orpington, and Game. 



Ask the pupils to point out the 

 differences between the single combs 

 shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4; to 

 count the number of serrations; to 

 note the difference in size between the 

 small comb of the Plymouth Rock, 

 the medium to large comb of the 

 Leghorn, and the very large comb of 

 the Black Minorca. Request the 

 pupils to name the breeds in which the comb of the female lops and 



those in 

 which it 

 is upright, 

 as shown 

 by the il- 

 lustrations. 

 Ask some 

 of them 

 to draw 

 combs of 

 and 

 of 



the different breeds and then ask other members of the class to 

 say which are males and which are 

 females and to give the reason. 



2. The rose comb. — A thick, solid 

 comb, covered at the top with fine 

 points and terminating in a con- 

 spicuous spike in the rear (Figs. 5, 

 6, 7). The rose comb is to be found 

 on the Wyandotte (Fig. 5), Rose- 

 Comb Leghorn (Fig. 6), Hamburg 

 (Fig. 7), Dominique, Rose -Comb 

 Rhode Island Red, Rose-Comb Black 

 Minorca, White Dorking, and others. 



Ask the class, among other questions, to explain the difference in the 

 shape of the comb of the Wyandotte (Fig. 5), Leghorn (Fig. 6), and 



Fig. 2. — White Leghorn 



Single comb, medium to large, five points, males 

 deeply serrated. Comb of female lopped 



females 



Fig. 3. — White-Faced Black 



Spanish 



Single comb, medium to large, five points. 



Comb of female lopped 



Fig. 4. — Black Minorca 



Single comb, very large, six points, deeply 

 serrated. Comb of female lopped 



