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this varietj' today, we sent 

 fanciers in the East and Wi 

 this symposium from: 

 Geo. H. Burgott, New York 

 \V. W. Kulp. Pennsylvania. 

 W'm. F. Brace, Xew York. 

 Charles O. Miers, Penna. 

 \V. VV. Carmen, New York. 



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1 list of questions to leading 

 ■St. We received answers to 



D. M. Owen, Tennessee. 

 H. C. Short, Kansas. 

 T. H. Woods, Missouri. 

 I.oring Brown, Georgia. 

 l-"lorence Forbes, Alabama. 



.■\. C. Smith, Massachusetts. J. H. Henderson, Tennessee. 



W. n. Wiebke, Indiana. 



L. P. Harris, Nebraska. 



W. H. Warnock, Illinois. 



The questions and answers follow: 



1. How does the Brown Leghorn of today compare 

 in color and shape with the Brown Leghorn of ten or 

 more years ago? 



The Brown Leghorn of today is decidedly a more 

 beautiful bird than was produced under the Standard 

 prior to its revision at Boston, and an improvement on 

 the specimen of ten years ago. — George H. Burgott. 



It is a little over ten years since the very fine, clear, 

 golden Browns have been bred and shown, and in that 

 time I think but little change has been made, for some very 

 fine females have been bred. — W. W. Kulp. 



The shape of both male and female perhaps is some- 

 what better. The color of male is not as good, but that 

 of female is greatly improved. — William F. Brace. 



I believe the males have improved both in shape and 

 in color. The females have improved in color of hackle, 

 and there are more good females, more people are breed- 

 ing good females. — yet. the back and body color has not 

 improved. — Charles C. Miers. 



Some breeders are getting better color, especially in 

 females. The males in R. C. Browns are very much 



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better. Shape as a whole is better, but with a tendency to 

 too long bodies and not curve enough in back, and tail 

 lower than should be. — W. W. Carmen. 



Improved in shape, size, color and markings. Males 

 and females more even in color. Females, less shafting 

 and brick in best specimens.— .A. C. Smith. 



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The males are darker in color and the female^ lighter. 

 Size has also increased some. — W. H. Wiebke. 



The color of males is better than ten years ago. Color 

 of females is not so good as some few of the best speci- 

 mens of ten years ago. — D. M. Owen. 



The females are much lighter on backs and wings, the 

 males darker in hackle and saddle, making it impossible 

 to produce winning males and females from the same 

 mating, thereby having unsatisfied customers, especially 

 if beginners in the poultry business, and a very uneven 

 flock in color, both males and females being dark and 

 light.— H. C. Short. 



Males have better combs, more perfect in stripe, 

 especially in back, lower tail shape. Females are not so 

 dark, are finer stippled, with but very little shaft and 

 brick; in fact they are very much improved.— T. H. 

 Woods. 



.\o, by no means. It seems impossible to get any 

 l;'io<1, true Leghorns any more, so I have given them up- 

 ihis year for the Whites, after breeding Browns oontinu- 

 cilly i"or thirty-eight years. — Loring Brown. 



Most of the judges prefer a lighter shade of brown. — 

 Florence Forbes. 



The prize winning male of today is very much darker, 

 and most of our leading judges seem to favor the male 

 with the extreme black striping in hackle and saddle, 

 thereby encouraging the breeder to produce a male of 

 much darker shade of color throughout. — J. H. Hender- 

 son. 



The cocks are much darker red in neck and saddle; 

 the females much lighter in back and wings and more 

 evenly penciled. — L. P. Harris. 



.\ better colored female, but little improvement in 

 male aside from better stripe in saddle. The males of 

 today have much more purple in plumage, the craze for 

 heavy striping in hackle and saddle being the cause. — W. 

 G. Warnock. 



2. Has not the present Standard's description of the 

 color of males lessened the brightness of surface color 

 and caused the females bred from such males to lose in 

 brownish surface color, thereby making extreme double 

 matings more necessary than in the past? 



It will be impossible to breed a beautiful bird even 

 under the last revision — from a single mating. I am 

 unable to see a cause for dropping the single mating 



