Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . osses was then begun in 1908. The pres-ent paper is a report on some of the results which have beenobtained in this study up to the present time. There were a number of reasons why this particular crossof Barred Plymouth Rock and Cornish Indian#Game was chosenfor detailed study. In the first place these two breeds of fowlsare strikingly different from each other in a wide variety ofcharacters. Some of the points of difference are indicated inTable 2. The general characteristics of the two breeds crossed areshown in Figs. 75 and j6. F
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . osses was then begun in 1908. The pres-ent paper is a report on some of the results which have beenobtained in this study up to the present time. There were a number of reasons why this particular crossof Barred Plymouth Rock and Cornish Indian#Game was chosenfor detailed study. In the first place these two breeds of fowlsare strikingly different from each other in a wide variety ofcharacters. Some of the points of difference are indicated inTable 2. The general characteristics of the two breeds crossed areshown in Figs. 75 and j6. Figure 75 gives a representation of-a male and female Barred Plymouth Rock, and Fig. ^6 of maleand female Cornish Indian Games. Unfortunately the photo-graphs of the Cornish fowls are not altogether ruffled appearance of the feathers in the male is not char-acteristic, and appears in this photograph only because the windwas blowing when it was taken. *Papers from the Biological Laboratory of the Maine AgriculturalExperiment Station, No.
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