Standard Shape of Leghorns 



Shape Oatlines for Leghorns, Male and Female, Sabmiited to Prominent Breeders for Criticism and Appro-* 

 — National Single Comb White Leghorn Glob Ideal Sketches of Male and Female— Illnstrations, 

 Like Those in the Standard of Perfection, Also Meet with Criticism 



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[E standard shape of Leghorns as illustrated in the 

 American Standard of Perfection, has been criti- 

 cised adversely by members of Leghorn Specialty 

 the National Single Comb White Leghorn Club 



so far as to repudiate the Standard illustrations by 



Ideal Male Leghorn Type. 



The above illustration is reproduced from the National Single Comb 

 White Leghorn Club catalogue of 1911. by courtesy of F. O. Groesbeck, Secre- 

 tary. This sketch is submitted by the Club as the highest possible conceiv- 

 able type of the Leghorn male. This drawing was especially designed by 

 Franklane .L. Sewell for the Club, the members of the latter claiming that 

 the ideal as adopted by the revision committee of the American Standard of 

 Perfection, differs from the ideal of Leghorn breeders in general. 



instructing Mr. Sewell to make new sketches which pur- 

 port to be the ideal shape of the male and female Leghorn 

 as favored by the National Single Comb White Leghorn 

 Club. 



These Club sketches are reprinted on this and the oppo- 

 site page, by courtesy of F. O. Groesbeck, Secretary of the 

 National Single Comb White Leghorn Club, who kindly 

 furnished the original half-tone plates for use in this book. 

 The fact that these Club sketches are also meeting 

 with adverse criticisms by Leghorn breeders, who .ire 



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non-members, clearly points out the difficulties that con- 

 front framers of the Standard and delineators of standard- 

 bred poultry in preparing the text and the illustrations. 

 .Notwithstanding the fact that the te.xt was satisfactory to 

 Leghorn breeders, and the illustrations were accepted as 

 correct at the St. Louis meeting of the 

 .'Kmerican Poultry Association. White Leg- 

 horn breeders of the east, immediately 

 after the 1910 Standard appeared, kicked 

 over the traces, and started to create ideals 

 of their own. That these Club ideals do 

 not strictly conform to the word description 

 in the Standard will be manifest to all Leg- 

 horn breeders who carefully study the 

 shape sections of these illustrations. 



That the Standard shape of the male 

 and female Leghorn does not meet the re- 

 quirements in all sections as printed in the 

 word description of the American Standard 

 of Perfection is also true. In order to ar- 

 rive at a better understanding among Leg- 

 horn breeders as to what the ideal male and 

 female should be in shape. Artist A. O. 

 Schilling was instructed to make the stand- 

 ard shape outlines for male and female il- 

 lustrated in the plate shown on page 2S. 



These outline sketches were printed in 

 the American Poultry World and Reliable 

 Poultry Journal in May and June, 1911; 

 copies were also sent to prominent Legliorn 

 breeders for criticism and approval. 



The following breeders and judges 

 sent in replies: — 



Wm. H. Heil, Easton, Pa., Buff Leg- 

 horns. 



Geo. L. Hornbrook, Decatur, 111.. S. C. 

 Brown Leghorns. 



O. T. Hallman, Charlotte, N. C, S. C. 

 White Leghorns. 



Geo. B. Ferris, Grand Rapids, Mich . S. 

 C. White Leghorns. 



Elmer V. Shultz, Webster Groves. Mo., 

 S. C. Brown Leghorns. 



Lewis T. McLean, Shushan, X. Y., 

 White Leghorns. 



N. V. Fogg, Mt. Sterling, Ky., S. C. 

 White Leghorns. 



Harmon Bradshaw, Lebanon, Ind., S. 

 C. White Leghorns. 

 Fred H. Cook, Beaver, Pa., S. C. Brown Leghorns. 

 L. E. Merihew, Marathon, N. Y., S. C. Buflf Leghorns. 

 P. R. Pfouts, Bucyrus, Ohio, S. C. White Leghorns. 

 G. J. Gerber, Dalton, Ohio, S. C. White Leghorns. 

 J. N. Coflfman, Edinburg, Va., S. C. Buff Leghorns. 

 Edward W. Phelps, Guilford, Conn., R. C. Brown 

 Leghorns. 



O. S. Gehrman, Omaha. Nebr., S. C. Brown Leghorns. 

 J. H. Henderson, Kno.wille, Tenn., S. C. Brown Leg- 



