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vVhite Leghorns portrayed, has 



:s below, in ^yhich he states that 



lorn fowls. In the year 1853 ^^ 



jm what port the ship came he did 



; Leghorn hen. They differed from 



■arger and had iv^ite legs. (See our 



.-se fowls in-and-in before he could get 



.-n he bred some magnificent, Dominique 



Mr. W. Simpson, of West Farms, New York, who sent us 

 favoured us with a short communication covering the egg str 

 he believes he was the first person in America to breed the 

 purchased from a young man, who had got them from a shf 

 not learn), a cock and four hens White Leghorns, and one 

 the fowl of the present day in that they were somew' 

 remarks above as to the legs of the Minorca.) He br 

 any fresh blood to cross with them, and from the V 

 Leghorns* (what are called cuckoo colour in '■' id), which he exhibited at the American 



Institute Fair in New York City several year ^e they attracted much attention, but being a 



new breed no prize was offered for them. .t the year i860, he says, some importations of 



yellow-legged birds were made, and thr jur oeing preferred, the white-legged ones soon 



disappeared. We are however of opinir .ilready stated in the chapter on Cochins, that in the 



majority of cases the yellow leg and .irdiness together have been introduced by a cross with 



the Asiatic ; to which cross Amer' .edecs are, as will be seen, very prone, and which is known 



to have produced in the Danver.'^ ite breed an almost similar result. 



jeen bred with care for a number of years by several breeders, 



jwls with large combs (upright in the cocks, and falling over in 



ire white ear-lobes, red faces, white plumage, and brilliant yellow 



id and shape of body is decidedly Spanish in appearance. Their 



, very superior for table use, but passable ; but they are remarkably 



e eggs, and are non-sitters. As definite proof is better than general 



indly sent us statistics of a small stock for three separate years, adding 



, were well fed, and in the spring kept confined, to Keep them out of the 



The White Leghorn fowl 

 and they are now medium-si? 

 the hens, just as in Spanis' 

 legs. The character of th 

 flesh, Mr. Simpson says, ' 

 good as layers of large 

 remarks, Mr. Simpson ' 

 the remark that " the 



garden." His table is as follows, only the total for each year being added by us : — 



Year 1856. Ten Hens Laid. 



Year 1868. Five Hens Laid. 



• The relation of blue or slate-colour, and this Dominique marking, to white and black, we have before pointed out on 

 several occasions. 



