CHAPTER III 



COMPARISONS OF FOUR LEADING BREEDS 



A STUDY of the records kept at the important 

 egg-laying contests held each year gives us some 

 very helpful and interesting facts about the four 

 leading breeds in America. 



Out of a thousand birds entered at the annual 

 laying contest we may expect to find the following : 

 490 Leghorns, 149 Pl37mouth Rocks, 147 Wyan- 

 dottes, 130 Rhode Island Reds, with the remaining 

 84 made up of Anconas, Buckeyes, Buttercups, 

 Campines, Dorkings, FaveroUes, Hamburgs, Hou- 

 dans, Langshams, Minorcas, Oregons, Orpingtons, 

 Sussex, and one or two local and less well-known 

 varieties. 



This shows more than three times as many Leg- 

 horns as any other breed. The American breeds 

 are very evenly divided among Rocks, Reds, and 

 Wyandottes. These four breeds comprise more 



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