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Barreti Rock females, aiul strongly sugyestcd the presence of cockerel 

 blood in her veins. 



"FUiffy Rullles" was the climax. With tliis strong', intense colored 

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

 wide-barred, hlnisb pulletlired hens and pnllets. In 1900, Latham had 

 crossed cockerclbrcd bhiod 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. l'"or several years after "Fluffy Ruffles" made 



Featliers 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 Y'ork 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 neplrew. 

 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 



