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FARMERS ’ BULLETIN 898. 
back and wings should be of a darker color than that shown in 
the standard-colored female, and should show very coarse stippling. 
The neck should be strong in striping. The breast should be dark 
reddish salmon, although some breeders use females with a dark 
stippled or penciled breast. It is essential that the undercolor be 
quite dark, even to the skin. It is also well to select females with 
small, evenly serrated, upstanding combs, as they tend to produce 
better combs in the male. This mating is known as the cockerel mating, 
because it produces a greater percentage of standard-colored males, 
while the females produced are too dark in color for exhibition, but 
are suitable for continuing; this line of breeding. 
In mating for females of exhibition color, females should be 
selected which are as near the standard description as possible. 
Mate with these a male which should be out of a female of fine quah 
ity. These males are invariably considerably lighter colored in all red 
sections than the exhibition male. The base of the neck and the sad- 
I'k;. 7.— Black Leghorn, male. 
