Lamona— A New Breed of Poultry 



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PROGRESS IS EVIDENT WITH EACH SUCCEEDING GENERATION 



Here is a male hatched in 1916. Note the prominent breast bone and large body of this bird, the 

 absence of the fifth toe, and the white ear lobe. (Fig. 18.) 



white. Progress in this respect has nec- 

 essarily been slow. This character 

 is at present far from fixed, but the fact 

 that quite numerous individuals have 

 been obtained possessing red lobes and 

 laying white eggs encourages the be- 

 lief that the fixation of this combination 

 of characters is merely a matter of con- 

 tinued breeding and infinite pains in 

 selection. 



In making observations in order to 

 secure a description of birds in the va- 

 rious years no effort has been made to 

 get a description of any which died at 

 an early age except insofar as the num- 

 ber of toes was concerned. This prac- 



tice has been followed because of the 

 difficulty previously indicated of secur- 

 ing dependable descriptions of the ear 

 lobe, color of immature birds and of 

 the leg color of baby chicks. In addi- 

 tion it has been found that the plumage 

 color of birds at an early stage is not a 

 reliable index of their color when they 

 mature. Quite a large proportion of 

 the birds which later show buff breasts 

 or red on the back and shoulders are 

 pure white as younger birds. 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS 



A brief sketch of the color of the 

 plumage, number of toes, leg color 



