SPLASHED ANDALUSIAN 



Splashed Andalusian, male (Kansas 57M). When mated with the White Wyandotte (Fig. 5) 

 she produced four kinds of offspring with regard to color. These are shown in Figs. 13, 

 14, 15 and 16. (Fig. 11.) 



While one of the rules laid down in 

 the constitution (Article XI, Section 1) 

 of the American Poultry Association-^ 

 for the admission of a new breed or 

 variety to the Standard of Perfection is 

 that "it must be able to produce 50 per 

 cent of the specimens reasonably true 

 to the type and characteristics of the 

 breed or variety, as set forth in the 

 (its) proposed standard," as a matter 

 of fact appearance and not pedigree is 

 the criterion of poultry breeding. Very 

 few poultry breeders keep careful and 

 complete breeding records (though hap- 

 pily the number is steadily growing), 

 and there are no official records 



Pen matings of one male and several 

 females of individuals within the vari- 

 ous breeds and varieties are usually 

 made from year to year. If a bird is 

 purchasd for breeding purposes, the 

 buyer has only the word of the breeder 

 and the appearance of the bird to as- 

 sure him that the bird purchased has 

 been bred pure. 



As a matter of fact, however, poul- 

 try is, in all probability, nearly if not 

 quite as "pure bred" as any other line 

 of live stock, even though no breeding 

 record, official or private, is kept. The 

 types and colors could hardly be main- 

 tained without it. That the fact of 



a mere are no oiiiciai recorus. Laiiieu wiuiuiu ii. iiidi ine laLi ui 



^American Standard of Perfection, 1910 edition, p. 328. Published by the American 



Poultry Association, Mansfield, Ohio. 



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