Lamona— A New Breed of Poultry 



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A CROSSBREDIMALE 



The hens shown in the three last preceding photographs, Figs. 5, 6 and 7, comprising pen 

 No. 22, were mated to a Single Comb White Leghorn male in 1913 (see Fig. 3), giving a cross 

 of White Plymouth Rock, plus Single Comb White Leghorn on the Dorking foundation. The bird 

 shown in this picture is one of the offspring of that mating, and this male was bred to the pullets in 

 pen 9 the following year (1914). There is a slight amount of red in the ear lobe. Note also the 

 thick, low set body and the heavy bone. (Fig. 8.) 



made nor was any other purebred indi- 

 vidual of the three original varieties 

 employed. The offspring from the 

 various matings in the different years 

 were selected and mated without re- 

 spect to the proportion of blood which 

 they carried, but simply on the grounds 

 of how closely they approached to what 

 was desired, or in some cases for the 

 purpose of strengthening some special 

 point. 



OFFSPRING OF THE FIRST CROSS 



From the first cross of the 1912 mat- 

 ings seven chicks were hatched and ma- 

 tured, all of them being females. Four 

 of these had the markings of poorly 

 bred Barred Plymouth Rocks and three 

 were grayish barred except on the 

 breast which was lighter and barred 

 with buff and grayish black. Four of 

 these birds had four toes on each foot. 



