THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



" PAEALLEL BARS SHOULD BE AS STRAIGHT AS 

 POSSIBLE " 



While the Standard fails to say anything 

 about the straightness of the bars, it does 

 describe them as " parallel." This feature, 

 combined with their being as straight as 

 possible, gives the most attractive effect and 

 helps a great deal toward the feathers match- 

 ing their bars side by side in rings, round the 

 body of the bird. On the pencilled Ham- 

 burg, the bars have been bred to the straightest 

 pattern of any variety of fowls, and they are 

 famous for their " ringy " effect. We have 

 seen birds so marked where the bars bent back- 

 ward and also males in which the bars of the 

 surface color bent forward towards the tip, 

 that were severely criticised by experts. Mr. 

 Arthur Smith, of Grove Hill Poultry Yards, 

 has often called our attention in the show 

 rooms to this failure in quite evenly-colored 

 birds, that otherwise were attractive, but did 



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