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a Black-red game-hen, which laid while with chickens, 

 to run a few hours with a Brown-red cock, and nine 

 eggs produced chickens, which all resembled the fa- 

 ther, or Brown-red. 



"Another English gentleman, when residing in 

 Canada, sold his Brahma cock and one hen, allowing 

 the hen left to run afterward with a Spangled Ham- 

 burg which had five hens of his own. Every egg 

 laid for ten days produced a pure Brahma chick, that 

 laid on the eleventh day was a half-breed. 



" In America, a Mr. Woodward bought in March 

 some Spanish pullets which had been running all the 

 winter with a native cock, and, though no eggs were 

 set till two months after purchase, all the chicks even 

 then showed the native points in a high degree. 



"Another gentleman breeding Games, finding a 

 neighbor's feather-legged Bantam cock come over his 

 fence, penned his fowls in securely, and saved no eggs 

 for a month after ; but several chicks still had feath- 

 ered legs, though with no other sign of the cross." * 



Mr. E. W. Barnes, of Plympton, " allowed a 

 neighbor's Brown Leghorn cock to pass three days 

 among his pen of eight one-year-old Light Brahma 

 pullets, < for experiment's sake,' he said. The Brown 

 Leghorn cock was removed, and he has never once 

 had anything on his premises since but the Light 

 Brahmas, of both sexes, c pure.' 



" From the eggs set within a week after the Brown 

 Leghorn cock was sent home a third of the chicks, 

 when hatched, came brown, speckled - brown, or 

 patched with brown, that same summer. 



1 " The Illustrated Book of Poultry," by Wright, pp. 129, 130. 



