OF STANDARD FOWLS 
plumage is the result. Take the same bird again 
and put willow, green, white or blue on him, as 
he is without black stripes in hackle and saddle, 
again the color aura is perfect and a beautiful bird 
appears. Put in the black stripes with the willow 
legs, etc., and a coarse harsh color greets the eye. 
Seemingly in support of the above, most stippled 
breeds have willow legs, etc., most penciled 
breeds yellow legs. 
In stippled breeds it is a law that the female 
shall have salmon breasts, yet some breeders of 
silver varieties that are stippled, claim they should 
have silver breasts as they claim it enhances the 
entire silvery grey plumage. Yet silver breasts 
are related to pencilings not stipplings, and ab- 
sence of salmon will cause pencilings on breasts 
and also tends to produce pencilings or coarse 
stipplings on back and wings. This shows con- 
clusively a transgression of law. Furthermore, 
such females will have a tendency to produce 
black stripes in males. In stippled breeds, males 
having an inclination to dark stripe in hackle, 
with shaft of feather light colored, will produce 
females full of that objectionable shafting on 
back and wings, as well as coarse stippling. This 
light shaft in hackle of males of penciled breeds 
and even laced breeds is the source of so much 
light shafting on back and wing of these breeds. 
It is a very bad defect in any breed and it is 
found in nearly every breed even to white and 
black birds. It should be avoided in every case 
in the breeding yard. Note that its source is in 
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