THK ITALIAN FOWL IN AMERICA 



Single Comb White Leghorn Cockerel bred at the Bureau of Animal Industry Experimental 

 Farm, Beltsville, Md. This is perhaps the most popular breed for egg production in the 

 United States. In Germany, according to Professor Ehlers, the breeders have spent 

 all their time on developing fancy points, and have failed to raise the egg yield. It is 

 therefore proposed to rebuild the breed in Germany, making from it a distinctively German 

 breed with rose comb. Photograph from the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 (Fig. 16.) 



the single comb and wattles arc likely 

 to freeze in cold weather, the rose- 

 comb breed has proved ])articularly 

 valuable. Farmers ])raise its useftil- 

 ncss, its hardiness, and its egg yield, 

 even where the single comb is at its 

 best. As to the egg i)roduction of his 

 breed. Director Barth gives statistics 

 [found on page 569]. 

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"The figures show that as the breeding 

 continues, the egg yield of the fowls 

 continues to increa.se ]:)retty .steadily, 

 n(jt only in number laid Init in weight 

 of each individual egg. In the last 

 year rc]jorted, we have figures that 

 exceed all exi)ectations and are but little 

 short of the figures reported by experi- 

 ment stations in the United States." 



