The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . 8 THE LEGHORNS. in favor of the weight clause for the Leghorns by the revi-sion committee, aDd it is a question now whether this movewould not have been a step in the right direction. However,if judges will use good judgment in discounting size, the aimof the association will be obtained and we will find in ourLeghorns a well-developed, symmetrical breed. CONDITION. This section is valued at five points and re
The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . 8 THE LEGHORNS. in favor of the weight clause for the Leghorns by the revi-sion committee, aDd it is a question now whether this movewould not have been a step in the right direction. However,if judges will use good judgment in discounting size, the aimof the association will be obtained and we will find in ourLeghorns a well-developed, symmetrical breed. CONDITION. This section is valued at five points and refers to thehealth and condition of the specimens. Under this heading,broken plumage and filthy specimens should be severelypunished. Nothing adds so much to the attractiveness of apoultry exhibition as clean exhibits; not only clean coops,bui clean, well-groomed birds as well, and when exhibitorsare careless in this direction they should be punished, anddiscounts under the head of condition is the proper place tomake the cuts. Aside from broken plumage and carelesscooping, defects that would come under this head would beunhealthy specimens, or birds that the exhibitors have care-. 40 — lessly allowed to run in filthy quarters until their legs havebecome scaled over by parasites. The cuts usually are,birds slightly out of condition, one-half point; birds showingsigns of roup, one to oneand one-half; scaly legs, one and ahalf to two, as in degree; male birds with torn combs orwattles caused by fighting, one-half to one. Any specimenso badly diseased as to endanger the lives of other specimenson exhibition should be disqualified and ordered out of thebuilding at once. MEAD. This section is valued at four points and in shape shouldbe short and deep and in color a reddish bay. It is seldomwe discount for color in this section. If we do at all it is fora slight ticking of grey on the head of females, caused usu-
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