26 Farm Poultry 



they attracted much attention. As the popular 

 animals and crops are most written about, it is 

 not strange that a more or less unpopular breed 

 should pass for nearly half a century with com- 

 paratively slight notice. Since the introduction 



FIG. 1. A White Leghorn cockerel. 



of the Leghorns, however, they have been consider- 

 ably changed and bred to that degree of perfec- 

 tion that has designated them an Americanized, 

 if not an American breed. In the early history 

 of these fowls in this country they were spoken 



