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to produce exhibition cockerels. The hens to match him will not require to be show specimens, but should 
be good in combs, dark in hackles, good ear-lobes, distinct wing-bars, and with pure w/iite ground colour 
and /z<;r white tails, well spangled at the tips of the feathers. From this mating the best cockerel should be 
selected and mated with his mother, the pullets being mated with their father, the produce from these two 
Fig. 79.— Feathers of full-feathered Siher-Spangled Hamburg Cock. 
matiogs being again mated with their parents ; then, again, the produce from these matings, cockerel from 
one and pullet from the other, ought to produce something high-class indeed in cockerels, the pullets so bred 
being of the greatest value for cock-breeding. 
Fig. 80 -Feathers of Hen-feathered Silver-Spangled Hamburg Cock. 
"To breed exhibition Silver-spangled pullets, quite a different stamp of cock will be required to head the 
pen. This bird should be hen-feathered, i.e., exactly like a show hen in plumage, without sickles. Mating 
him with two or three hens which are good in comb and lobes, boldly and evenly spangled throughout, the 
spangles being round and large, not crescent-shaped, or of such a size that they overlap one another ; in fact, 
