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FOULTUY PRODUCTION 



these cliaraetcristics, as in fecundity, tlic Leghorn is more 

 extreme save in the largeness of the egg, for wliicli the 

 Minorca enjoys an excellent and well-deserved reputation. 



The l)hje Andalnsian is reniarkahle in tluit it ne\-cr hrecds 

 true for color. The otl's]3ring of lilue parents arc, on the 

 a\'cra2;e, in the ])roportion of one black to two blue to one 

 white, splashed with bhie. The black offspring when mated 

 together give only bhicks. The white-splashed mated 



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Single C'fjuil;) Wliiti.' Leghorn, IVuialt- { Mc(li1cri;incaii) . (< '(.airtcy^- ol (Jwuu 

 Farms and KcliaMo Puultii' Journal. j 



together give all wdiite-splashed. The blue offs])i'ing give 

 blacks, blues and blue-splashed just as did their part'uts. 

 Nt'ither the blacks or whitc-S])la.shed are recognized as 

 standard varieties, though they breed true. 



It is ]irubable that the Hlne Orpingtons and lilue I'lyniouth 

 liocks traei' then' anceslry fo the lilue Andalnsian anioni;- 

 others and their breeding belia\'i(ir corrcsjionds to that ol' the 

 Andalnsian. 



