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 . icks will come from the best of matings no matterhow much experience the breeder has had. This is as itshould be, for if every bird raised should happen to be a per-fect bird, the fanciers work would soon be at an end. Thescarcity of the diamond has much to do with its value. The shade of buff that is called for by the standard iswhat so few can comprehend. Even judges seem to differ onthis point. In our minds
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 . icks will come from the best of matings no matterhow much experience the breeder has had. This is as itshould be, for if every bird raised should happen to be a per-fect bird, the fanciers work would soon be at an end. Thescarcity of the diamond has much to do with its value. The shade of buff that is called for by the standard iswhat so few can comprehend. Even judges seem to differ onthis point. In our minds the shade of buff is not of such great importance, as long as it docs not prove either of thetwo extremes. A medium buff is what we should strive of color, too, is of the greatest importance; allsections should be one even shade. Very few persons who now have the pleasure to look atthe beautiful Buff Leghorn as it appears in our leadingshows have any idea of the cost, patience and time it hastaken to place them in the position they now occupy in thepoultry world. Pardon us for saying we have spent a smallfortune to get this breed before the fanciers of this
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