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at D will, on the average, carry 75 per cent, of the character- 

 istics of the original male. If now a pullet from group D is 

 mated with the original sire A, the progeny represented at 



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Breeding chart, after Felch and Pierce, (Courtesy of Breeders' 

 Gazette, Chicago.) 



F will, on the average, carry 87.5 per cent, of the character- 

 istics of the original male and but 12.5 per cent, of those of 

 the original female. 



In exactly the same way males from groups C and E may 



