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system, when I see the best breeders of Hamburgs and 

 Polish on this continent, using this system.— George H. 

 Burgott. 



I have always favored the golden browns, as they are 

 the most beautiful; and I have always noticed that per- 

 sons who are not interested will select those as the finest 

 color, regardless of the Standard. We who breed them 

 know they are much harder to breed than the darker col- 

 ored ones. It is not nearly so hard to breed a dark, clear- 

 winged pullet, as it is to breed a golden-colored, clear- 

 winged pullet; and when they are as finely stippled as 

 they well could be, the height of beauty is reached so far 

 as color goes in the female. — W. W. Kulp. 



The present Standard has lessened the brilliancy of 

 tlie males, causing smuttiness in saddle and hackles, and 

 mtrple in shade, instead of 



the general color very much more of the smut and purple, 

 causing the females bred from such males to lose in 

 brownish surface color — thereby making double matings 

 imperative. — J. H. Henderson. 



The present Standard makes it impossible to breed 

 both good exhibition males and females from same mat- 

 ing. Still I admire the colors of each more as they are 

 now than as they were ten or more years ago. — L. P. 

 Harris. 



Yes, females bred from present day males have little 

 resemblance to Brown Leghorns, many of them being so 

 dark as to be unfit for breeding and are salable only for 

 layers.— W. G. Warnock. 



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the beetle green we used t > 

 find. The females are very 

 much too dark — -in fact, 

 they are hiore like the 

 Partridge Cochin in mark- 

 ings. I think it would be 

 impossible to make single 

 matings and get .the beau- 

 tiful color we have on fe- 

 males, but by lightening 

 the shade of males we 

 would get more brilliar: 

 color and less of the purple, 

 which is now so objection- 

 able.— William F. Brace. 



Those extremely dark 

 matings are not at all 

 necessary and are of no 

 account, always breeding 

 too much smut and a lack 

 of led on wings. We no- 

 tice some judges are over- 

 looking this bad defect. — 

 Charles O. Miers. 



Ten or fifteen years 

 ago I had lots of males 

 that were very glossy, giv- 

 ing a beautiful effect; now 

 not over one in twenty 

 shows this gloss, if they are 

 of a deep rich red. The 

 cockerel breeding fenialo 

 of today are anything but 

 brown. The deep red binl 

 is very handsome in the 

 hagd, or a few feet away, 

 but the brighter colored 

 bird takes the eye in the 

 yard. — W. W. Carmen. 



The female that is de- 

 sired now, and that ha- 

 been desired for twenty 

 and more years back, pro- 

 duces a male so colorless 

 and characterless that it is 

 a waste of time and mental pi 

 mating proposition. — A. C. Sn 



Yes.— W. H. Wiebke. 



Males of present Standard description th 

 entirely too dark in color. — D. M. Owen. 



It has caused the color in females to win in males 

 a Dark Brahma female color. And can any breeder of the 

 Brown Leghorn realize the contrast in color to a winning 

 female? Is it any wonder for a beginner ordering a trio for 

 producing exhibition males, to be amazed at the contrast 

 in the color of females to exhibition females? 



To produce birds for the present Standard it re- 

 quires two matings to produce birds of the highest type. 

 The female-cockerel matings result in birds too dark for 

 show purposes, and the cockerel-pullet matings result in 

 birds too light; double matings are absolutely necessary. 

 — T. H. Woods. 



It certainly has. — Loring Brown. 



The present Standard makes it impossible to breed 

 Single Brown Leghorns unless you have a double mating. 

 — Florence Forbes. 



Yes. In our great desire to produce a male with the 

 extreme dark striping in hackle and saddle we have lost 

 much of the rich brilliant red and have introduced into 



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ghter or more brilliant red in 

 hackle and saddle and a 

 slate instead of a black or 

 dark slate undercolor 

 prove conducive to larger 

 percentages of good fe- 

 males and make single 

 matings possible? 



I believe brilliant red 

 is right, and also that too 

 much weight has been put 

 upon dark undercolor, caus- 

 ing so much omission of 

 stripe at ends of hackle. 

 Single matings would be 

 impossible, for we should 

 then lose the beauty of the 

 female. — George H. Bur- 

 gott. 



I have no objection to 

 having the color vary from 

 iiLiht to darker, as that has 

 1 1 ways been done and will 

 ilways be done, as the 

 i.irker ones may be the 

 ii>t, all things considered. 

 I'iUt I think it is making 

 ilie road a bit easier so far 

 as exhibition Brown fe- 

 males are concerned. — W. 

 W. Kulp. 



A lighter shade in 

 males would be an im- 

 provement, and it could be 

 done by breeding a Stand- 

 ard colored male, with 

 coarse markings. The un- 

 dercolor is not of so much 

 importance as the surface 

 color, and would have a 

 tendency to brighten the 

 shade and still retain the 

 beautiful striping, and the 

 greenish shade of black 

 would result, instead of 

 purple. It would make them as we used to find them. 

 The darker shade and Partridge Cochin breasts were used 

 to obtain an even shade in hackle, which was difficult to 

 get; even by this niethoa I think it impossible to get the 

 female color as it is today. Let the Standard call for a 

 lighter shade in males. — William F. Brace. 



We do not believe that either good females or good 

 males can be produced from a single mating, unless we 

 accept the present pullet-bred cockerel as good, and 

 change the present Standard accordingly. — -Charles O. 

 Miers. 



If seal brown were Standard for females and a fe- 

 male were mated with such a male, a single mating might 

 be possible. — W. W. Carmen. 



Single matings are not a possibility until a straw- 

 colored male will be condoned. — A. C. Smith. 



I doubt if good males and females can be produced 

 from single matings. I never could. The strong striping 

 in saddle of male would always give poor striping in fe- 

 males.— W. H. Wiebke. 



The male to throw fine-colored females should have 

 medium red hackle shading to lemon at base; saddle, 

 orange red; undercolor, slate. — D. M. Owen. 



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