. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . d has made but little headwayfrom an exhibition point of view. The best hen I ever saw was exhibited at the LeghornClub Show at Leeds in 1908. Both lobes and combwere unusually good for a Cuckoo, and the barring wasclear and well defined; but both size and shape boreindications of a Barred Rock cross at some time, thoughit may have been a distant cross. The chief failings in colour are those peculiar to thebarred breeds, viz. white in the tail of the cockerels,sometimes dusky legs, and a blurred sootiness in theground colou
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . d has made but little headwayfrom an exhibition point of view. The best hen I ever saw was exhibited at the LeghornClub Show at Leeds in 1908. Both lobes and combwere unusually good for a Cuckoo, and the barring wasclear and well defined; but both size and shape boreindications of a Barred Rock cross at some time, thoughit may have been a distant cross. The chief failings in colour are those peculiar to thebarred breeds, viz. white in the tail of the cockerels,sometimes dusky legs, and a blurred sootiness in theground colour. The barring of the Cuckoo Leghorn is not meant tobe as clear and straight and well-defined as in the newAmerican type of Barred Rock, but more like thebroader old-fashioned type, and to have zigzag markingswith the colours gently blending into one another. The best I ever saw both in size and markings werebred from a cross between a Black Leghorn cockerel, withgood lobes and legs and light under-colour, mated withBlack Rock hens. The cockerels were of the Leghorn. WHITE LEGHORN and exhibited by the Author. 06 2 451 MEDITERRANEAN BREEDS 453 type and well barred. If one of these cockerels, alreadyhalf Leghorn, had been mated with Cuckoo hens, Ishould expect to have seen a great advance both in size,head points, and clearness of marking, while the Leg-horn type would have been preserved either in thisgeneration with three-quarter Leghorn blood, or inlater broods. If an objection be made that they would not beLeghorns, but a cross, I reply that there would havebeen no Leghorns as a fanciers fowl without a cross, andthat when this can be done without loss of type and ageneral spoiling of Leghorn characteristics, it doesgood and not harm. Such an infusion of new bloodwould rescue the Cuckoo Leghorn from being merely autility fowl, whose existence is threatened even in thatclass, since the fancier is the fountain-head of theworlds supply of utility stock. If any Cuckoo
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