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preferred. To liim mate liens of a shade darker than standard, with 
small,evenly serrated, standing combs; a trifle brick color on wings is no 
objection, as it will give a brighter color on wing bows of the cockerels. 
Shafting on the back will also help the black stripe in the saddles. 
The pullets raised from tins pen will be too dark for exhibition, but 
they will be a great help in breeding cockerels the next season. The 
male at the head of the pen mated to produce the pullets should be 
from a pullet strain, and bred 
directly from an exhibition hen. 
His color is a trifle light; comb 
large, but evenly serrated, if 
thin near the top, all the better 
hackle, well striped (see fig. 21), 
but none in saddle; undercolor 
of hackle and saddle may be 
light gray or white; wing bows 
should show more purple than 
red, as too much red shows signs 
of being bred from a “bricky” hen. To him mate 
exhibition females having light brown penciled 
with darker brown on back and wings, all one 
shade, free from shafting on back and brick color 
on wings. These hens should have the large 
comb, lying over, but firm and strong on the head, 
so it does not lie close to the eye and face. The 
cockerels raised from this mating are the birds 
to use for breeding females the next year. By breeding Brown Leg¬ 
horns in this manner we have two distinct lines of blood, and they 
Fig. 21.—Feathers of Frown 
Leghorns; a, back and 
hackle of female; b, hackle 
and wing feather of male. 
should never be crossed. 
The Buff Leghorn (fig. 22) is the most recent acquisition to the Medi¬ 
terranean class. It is a beautiful bird, and one that will win its way 
wherever bred. Bull-colored birds have many admirers, and those who 
have bred them are pronounced in praise of their qualities. Besides 
