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Barred Rock females, and strongly suggested the presence of cockerel 

 blood in her veins. 



"Fluffy Ruffles" was the climax. With this strong, intense colored 

 female winning at New York, the day was now gone for the old, 

 wide-barred, bluish pulletbred hens and pullets. In 1900, Latham had 

 crossed cockerelbred blood in his Boston hen line, and had won for 

 himself the distinction of being "the man who had put color into 

 the exhibition Barred Rock females." Welles now clinched the argu- 

 ment of stronger color. For several years after "Fluffy Ruffles" made 



Feathers from the back of a male used in the breeding of exhi- 

 bition females. Such a male is termed "pullet-bred." The male 

 from which these feathers were plucked is owned by W. D. Holter- 

 man, Fort Wayne, Ind. 



her debut at New York, Judge Schwab continued to give the prefer- 

 ence to the darker females; and in 1910 and 1911, Riley won 1st hen 

 at New York on very strong colored birds. 



Thompson as a master breeder. E. B. Thompson, with the greater 

 resources, and a better organization in his son, Valentine, and nepnew, 

 John, to carry on the breeding business, at last outdistanced all com- 

 petitors. From 1887 down to the present time, his "Imperial Ring- 

 lets" have won largely at the Garden shows. It probably is with- 

 out precedent in any breed or variety of livestock for one breeder to 



