Suburbanite rears a flock from that male and a number of 

 equally poor females, his more-knowing neighbor is called 

 over to pick out the "finest" for next year's breeding. If 

 his neighbor (who may be informed) is honest, they will 

 decide that the whole season has been spent rearing "just 

 a flock of culls" worth only the price per pound at the 

 same market where their sire and dams were purchased. 



Heads of Prize Winning Males 



When comparing these Leghorn heads and combs, it 

 should be borne in mind that they illustrate the leaders 

 of a breed that has been well established and pure-bred in 

 America for nearly half a century. Variations will not be 

 so great or at once so noticeable as during the first ten 

 years of the history of a variety. However, sufficient 

 variation will be seen to show that there is opportunity 

 for careful selection and breeding to the ideal. 



The earliest of this collection to appear before the 

 public was cock No. 7 group two. He was shown by Ezra 

 Cornell and won first at New York, 1899. This strain was 

 built rather high on the legs with sloping backs and rather 

 close plumage and not large tails. The comb is not un- 

 like the description of the bird — "up in front, rather slop- 

 ing to the rear." The base of the points of nearly all 

 male Leghorn combs, or we might call it, the line where 

 the serrations join the blade of the comb, slopes slightly. 

 Some are not far from level. A few will be found to be 

 carried so that the line is elevated as the points are 

 counted backward. In the latter style the rear blade will 

 be found to extend well up away from the head where 

 the neck joins. 



No. 7 shows a straight comb well joined to the head, 

 quite free from wrinkles. The second and third points are 

 too high. The rear blade loses character by a sixth point. 

 In general form the wattles are fair, but look somewhat 

 thick and heavy. The general outline of the ear-lobe is 

 good, but it is rather thick and puffed. The eye looks a 

 trifle small. The neck arches well behind and is joined 

 neatly to the head. In front the neck is rather straight. 



No. 11 was first winner at Pan-American. 1901, and 

 was sold by Ezra Cornell to White Leghorn Poultry 



Yards. It was a smart, high-stationed cockerel with quite 

 regular and sharply defined points on the comb. The 

 blade terminates in a double instead of a single point and 

 is straight instead of nicely curved on the lower edge, but 

 extends well back away from the head. The wattles are 

 neat and nicely rounded. 



No. 15, Group 3, the next to appear in 1903, was D. 

 W. Young's "Arch 1st," the first winning cockerel at 

 New York. He possessed a comb with just five point: 

 and the rear blade had the desired "one terminal point." 

 The back end of the blade is rather square. The fifth 

 point might look better just a little shorter and the curve 

 of the front over the beak might be a trifle bolder. The 

 wattles to balance the comb could be a very little longer. 

 The ear-lobes are fine and the whole head shows a valu- 

 able bird as a breeder for Standard points. 



No. 13, Group 3, was the first winning cockerel at 

 Boston, 1903, and was owned by Chas. J. Fogg. He was 

 a sturdy young bird with plenty of size for a young Leg- 

 horn and was of a fine, vigorous type, having firm plumage 

 and full rounded breast. The comb is very straight and 

 regular, although it shows six instead of five points. 

 Breeders have agreed upon five points for the ideal al- 

 though some would be quite willing to fancy six were that 

 the ideal number instead of five. The lobes are well 

 formed and of nice size. The wattles are of proportion- 

 ate length, considering the comb and are well formed ex- 

 cept that they turn backward a little on the front edges 

 which should hang so as to form a moderate curve for- 

 ward. 



No. 9, Group 2, was the second winner at the World's 

 Fair at St. Louis, 1904. He was not quite so matured as 

 are the birds usually seen at the winter shows, but he was 

 well balanced in bodj and general form. The comb does 

 not show quite the refinement and niceness about the ar- 

 rangement of points that could be desired. The fourth 

 point is too broad at the base to harmonize with the rest. 



In No. 3, Group 1, we see another upstanding type of 

 similar blood lines as the first two mentioned. This cock 

 was a winner at Rochester, 1904, and was owned by the 



White Leghorn Porltry Yards. The general for 



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Group 3: No. 16 



