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matured and the sap has disappeared from the quills— 

 which it will do, if the bird is white— the color of the 

 plumage will not be affected by the feeding of yellow 

 corn. — H. E. Humphrey. 



Yellow corn will affect the white plumage on most 

 birds by giving it a creamy or straw color, but I have 



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ited above stands a very good chance of win- 

 ning in the strongest competition. While the comb of this 

 bird is rather large and approaching the Minorca type ot 

 comb, the head, lobes and wattles are well balanced; the 

 neck, back and tail outline is characteristic of the modern 

 type Leghorn; the tail is well spread and carried at an 

 angle that harmonizes with the rest of the body sections. 



had some birds that it would not hurt at all. — -Harmon 

 Bradshaw. 



Yellow corn will certainly give white plumage a 

 creamy tinge, if fed during the moulting season, espe- 

 cially. — George A. Barrows. 



Yellow corn will "cream" all pullets and "brass" the 

 cockerels. It will even change the blue-pink skin of a 

 pure white bird and make it yellow. As to why and how 

 I have my theories; let someone else'ans^i-er. — Robert I). 

 Parmenter. 



Cannot say personally. — Harln T. Fisk 



It will to some extent if fed while feathers are grow- 

 ing — Ijut not much. — C. W. Sixt. 



It is my experience that it will. There are some birds 

 so white that a diet comprised largely of yellow corn will 

 leave them reasonably white; but even these birds vvould 

 be whiter without the corn. There are others that, if fed 

 much on corn, will be decidedly creamy — so much so that 

 they are ruined for exhibition; yet, if raised on other 

 grains, they would be exhibition birds of the finest 

 quality. The bird that can stand corn without becoming 

 creamy is really a white-skinned one that will never make 

 a prime market chicken. A yellow-skinned bird kept 

 white by judicious feeding is much more valuable because 

 It is easily fattened when desired. — George B. Ferris. 



Yes, this is a settled fact, and I will not give the rea- 

 son. Will it make an egg yolk yellow? Yes. — L. S. Day- 

 hoff. 



We believe that the feeding of yellow corn affects 

 only the oil in the quills, having a tendency to make the 

 quills oily and creamy. Yellow corn does not further af- 

 fect the olumage. Creamy plumage and brassiness are in 

 the breeding of the bird, and are not the result of what il 

 is fed on. We do not, for an instant, tolerate a brassj 

 bird on our farm. — E. J. Huber. 



That breeders of White Leghorns are not a unit on a 

 number of the subjects discussed in the above symposium 

 is readily perceived, but the points brought out pro and 

 con will prove valuable, instructive and lead to a more 

 thorough investigation of some of the problems that have 

 not been satisfactorily solved up to the present time. 



One of these is the effect the feeding of yellow corn 

 has on the plumage of white fowl. Until more thorough 

 tests in feeding white and yellow corn to selected pens of 

 white fowl are made, and these tests are carried on for a 

 period of years, breeders will continue to differ in their 

 views on this subject. Personally we have always con- 

 sidered real silvery white plumaged fowl immune, believ- 

 ing the color of the grain fed to such in no way affected 

 the color of their plumage. 



That the majority of Leghorn breeders agree on the 

 1 mg bodied bird as the best layer is evident after reading 

 the answers to question No. 2; neither are they very far 

 apart on the average egg yield per annum per capita of 

 a flock of White Leghorn hens. While a few individual 

 records show layers that produced over 200 eggs in one 

 year, the yield can safely be placed at fifty per cent or 

 182 eggs for the highest and ISO eggs for the average 

 flock. 200 egg hens are evidently not in sight yet, at least 

 ■hot in large flocks of Leghorns. 



A White Leghorn hen that lays 12 dozen eggs in 

 twelve months is a very profitable producer, if the figures 

 giving the cost of maintenance for the year are correct. 

 As $1.00 to |1.S0 is given as the cost of the grain and 

 other food a White Leghorn hen consumes in 365 days, 

 it needs only IZyz cents a dozen for the eggs to balance 

 the feed bill. With White Leghorn eggs averaging 25 

 cents a dozen, a gross profit of I2y2 cents a' dozen can be 

 realized. What the cost of labor, interest on the invest- 

 ment and other items of expense amount to depends on 

 the poultry raiser, but he has a very safe margin in the 

 12'/< cents profit to work on. 



