THE LEGHORNS 



Give us the old time color and let there be some 

 shafting and red in wing-bows, and get back to the good 

 old time color and away from the B. B. Reds. Then we 

 will have a much smaller percentage of culls and three 

 times as many eggs and fewer persistent setters. — Loring 

 Brown. 



Too much importance is placed on back of female. I 

 prefer darker shade in back, with a good hackle. With 

 the light females you do not get a perfect hackle or a 

 rich-colored breast. — Florence Forbes. 



I do not anticipate any great reform or change to- 

 ward more uniformity in color and judging of exhibition 

 females until we can get our judges educated in the same 

 schools on what constitutes Standard color. I am of the 

 opinion that we must have and furnish our judges, for 

 comparison while judging, a visible ideal color guide, 

 specimens of real feathers taken from a live female of the 

 most nearly perfect Standard color type, to assist them in 

 the right interpretation of our present word-picture 

 Standard. — J. H. Henderson. 



I should think it would; still at the same time it will 

 not help to correct the evil of double-mating. — L. P. 

 Harris. 



The above change and description meets my ideas 

 exactly. I do not think stippling or shade of color alone 

 should decide an award; excellence should win, freedom 

 from shafting being considered the greater defect. — W. 

 G. Warnock. 



5. Will the revised American Standard of Perfection 

 prove of material benefit to the Brown Leghorn, in pro- 

 ducing a greater percentage of exhibition males and fe- 

 males? 



I believe it will, but they cannot be bred from a 

 single mating unless you should adopt Partridge Cochin 

 color — and then not, as the best of our Partridge Cochin 

 breeders use the double matings to a certain extent. — 

 George H. Burgott. 



It is likely that in Single Comb Browns the best 

 bird ever shown was shown last year. He, or the same 

 yards, may not produce as well this year, but in a year 

 or two will do it again or better. — W. W. Kulp. 



The proposed or revised Standard will improve both 

 males and females, but there is a tendency to too low 

 tails, especially on females, giving them the appearance of 

 having what we call 'pinch tails." — William F. Brace. 



We are satisfied with the Standard, but some judges 

 need a few lessons on color, or should occasionally visit 



some one who breeds good Brown Leghorns.— Charles 

 O. Miers. 



I do not know. — W. W. Carmen. 



Yes; by giving a better understanding of what is de- 

 sirable in female color. — A. C. Smith. 



Do not know, but hope so. — W. H. Wiebke. 



I think it will. The description of female is very 

 good. The description of male could be improved some. 

 — D. M. Owen. 



I hope so, should the Browns once again be ever 

 placed in the foremost rank of poultrydom, as they have 

 been and should be. The making of extreme double mat- 

 ings necessary to produce exhibition males and females 

 lessens their popularity or any other breed, for that mat- 

 ter, in my judgment. — H. C. Short. 



I think the revised Standard will help the Brown 

 Leghorns, and that they will be much improved in the 

 next few years, as there has been a great improvement in 

 the past four years. — Tom H. Woods. 



No, not like it now is, but will kill the breed, espe- 

 cially to the navice, who is the very one we must depend 

 upon for most of our future business. There are very few, 

 if any, good old time Brown Leghorns in the South like 

 we used to have, which always were the leading classes at 

 our Southern shows fifteen or twenty-five years ago. 

 They sold like hot cakes and laid eggs by the bushel, and 

 a sitter was always killed and considered not pure. Change 

 the Standard back, with few exceptions, to read as it did 

 when B. N. Pierce and Thos. Pottage produced the hardiest 

 birds ever bred, that were real Brown Leghorns, and we 

 will some day have them back — good and true money 

 makers, with size, fine large comDs, and workers to stay. 

 - — Loring Brown. 



No. — Florence Forbes. 



Very much depends upon the interpretation. Our 

 Standard will be made better, our breeding more satis- 

 factory, when our judges learn the same lesson — Standard 

 color. — J. H. Henderson. 



No. — L. P. Harris. 



I hope so, but I doubt it. About the time breeders 

 get to producing a nice uniform flock some few will ask 

 for a change and, judging the future by the past, they will 

 get it. Standard tinkering has driven the Brown Leghorn 

 from many show rooms and has made the production of a 

 95-point specimen almost an impossibility, and has made 

 one-half of our flock culls, as judged by Standard require- 

 nents. — W. H. Warnock. 



S. C. BROWN LEGHORN MALES 

 A noted pair of winners showing excellent type; good head points and lobe 



