Lamona— A New Breed of Poultry 



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ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THE MATING OF PEN 17 IN 1914 



Note the Dominique markings. It will be recalled that the Dominique was used in making 

 the Plymouth Rock. The mixture of blood from other breeds has caused the barring of the latter 

 to revert to the Dominique type. (Fig. 14.) 



addition to having the Black Red 

 markings, had many feathers through- 

 out their plumage of a bluish gray 

 color. I bred a few specimens of this 

 colorage for two or three years and 

 finally abandoned them as I could see 

 no necessity of trying to perpetuate 

 them as a variety. They bred true 



and could have been very easily bred 

 up to approach our present day Brown 

 Leghorns as the type was principally 

 Leghorn although an occasional bird re- 

 sembled the Game being tall on its legs. 

 The so called Pyle markings seen on 

 some of the specimens is probably due 

 to the White Leghorn blood as we get 



