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THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



brood of twenty-four; and the first and second cocks and first and 

 fourth hens at the National show, Chicago, 1920, were of the 

 twenty-four. 



The first pullet at Chicago in 1920, which was unplaced at 

 Boston, was a daughter of one of the above hens. She is a grand- 

 daughter of the mother of the twenty-four. Mr. Keller took eight 

 of her daughters, eight full sisters out of the twenty-four cockerels 



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First Golden Wyandotte Cock, Chicago, December, 1916. 



and pullets, and mated them to a partly related cockerel in 1919. 

 He was a sharply marked fellow, uniform in ground color. He pro- 

 duced the cockerel at the head of the first pen at the National show, 

 Chicago, 1920, as well as the sensational first pullet. 



Mr. Keller was the first to lay especial emphasis on the impor- 

 tance of open diamond shaped centers in the saddle feathers of 

 Golden Wyandotte male birds. He insisted years ago, as has been 

 amply proved since, that the more open you can get the red centers 



