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 . comb for Rose Comb Leg-horns. In Fig. 8 is shown a combthat is defective in everyway. It is too large in front,the spike following the shapeof the head like the Wyan-dotte. This comb is unevenon top and has a deep seamthrough the center. Such acomb should be discountedtwo points for general shape,one-half point for being too wide in front, and one point forhollow in center. In Fig. !> we find a comb that is
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 . comb for Rose Comb Leg-horns. In Fig. 8 is shown a combthat is defective in everyway. It is too large in front,the spike following the shapeof the head like the Wyan-dotte. This comb is unevenon top and has a deep seamthrough the center. Such acomb should be discountedtwo points for general shape,one-half point for being too wide in front, and one point forhollow in center. In Fig. !> we find a comb that is too narrow and one thatis wider at rear than in front. It is not evenly serrated andshows a hollow in front. Such a comb should be discounted. one and a half points for general shape, one point for hollowin front and one point for poor serrations. WATTLES AND EARLOBES. The section embracing wattles and earlobes is valued atten points and is divided into four for wattles and six forlobes. In scoring it is subdivided again, especially so in thelobes, allowing at least three points for color. While thissection is one that has no commercial value, next to comb itis the most important sectionof the Brown Leghorn. Apoor earlobe is one of the veryfirst defects that a painstak-ing fancier will discard fromhis breeding pens. I will now call the readersattention to chart No. 1 andask him to look carefully atthis illustration. There areseveral points in connectionwith this bird to which I wantto call special attention, espe-cially to the shape and size of the earlobes and wattles. Here is a bird that is rightly pro-portioned in every respect, and you will note that the ear-lobe is small considering the size of the bird. These weremy in
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