. A study of selections for the variation and inheritance of the size, shape and color of hens' eggs. 226 Earl W. Benjamin the length character is somewhat predominant over the width; other-wise one would expect to find more than 50 per cent of round progenywhen both sire and dam are round. Both the size and the shape of the egg seem to be about equally trans-mitted to the progeny by the dams and by the sires. These two factors. Long eireHound dam Round sireRound dam Long sireLong dam Fig. 16. relation of progeny shape characters to sire and dam The white area in each case designates the propo

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. A study of selections for the variation and inheritance of the size, shape and color of hens' eggs. 226 Earl W. Benjamin the length character is somewhat predominant over the width; other-wise one would expect to find more than 50 per cent of round progenywhen both sire and dam are round. Both the size and the shape of the egg seem to be about equally trans-mitted to the progeny by the dams and by the sires. These two factors. Long eireHound dam Round sireRound dam Long sireLong dam Fig. 16. relation of progeny shape characters to sire and dam The white area in each case designates the proportion of progeny showing the same character as that of the sire appear, however, to be independent, as is shown by an entire lack ofcorrelation between them (Benjamin, 1912). Such a condition as isfound here is the reverse of what might be expected if the results obtainedby other workers (Pearl and Curtis, 1916) on Barred Plymouth Rockswere borne out with the strain of White Leghorns used in these experi-

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