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The Journal of Heredity 



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ANOTHER COCKEREL OF 1915 



Note the Dominique and Hrown Lej^horn markinj^'s and the white car lobe. It would have been easily 

 possible to establish a strain with the Hrown Lenliorn markinj^s but these have been discarded and at- 

 tention directed soleh' to the white, and the white with but! and red. The reader can now see how 

 varieties of poultry breeds are established. There is not so great a difference between the size and con- 

 formation type of the birds now appearing. The most important difference, except for the ear lobes, 

 is in color. (Fig. \7.) 



whose legs show white will afterward 

 pro\e to ha\e yellow le^s. 



In brxly type there has been, as 

 might be expected, a wide variation. 

 Flven at the present time the t\j)e can- 

 not be saitl to be \ery iniitorm but con- 

 stant selection for the type desired has 

 resulted in the elimination to a large 

 extent of the lighter bodied birds which 

 are set high on legs. In general the 

 i)ody type now obtained <-onsists of a 

 long bod\- but not aKva\s one carried in 

 a horizont.il position. 



The color of eggs laid by the hens 

 probably has pnned to be the most 

 dithciilt character to fix. As soon as 

 the offspring of the original crosses be- 

 gan to break up in the matter of egg 

 color it |iro\ed to be rather tlifhcult to 

 secure good specimens for breeding 

 which combined the red color of ear 

 lobe and which laid or whose mothers 

 laid white eggs. The only thing that 

 could be done under these circimi- 

 stances was to select, insofar as pos- 

 sible, the birds laying eggs nearest to 



