. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 107 boms; Single Comb Black and White Minorcas and Rose Comb Black Mmorcas; Blue Andalusians, White Faced and Mottled Anconas. All of the varieties in this class are non- sitters and have tested egg^ records of from 200 to 280 eggs per year per hen. WHITE LEGHORNS. Single Comb White Leghorns have become very popular as an all round egg farm biid for California and are surely worthy ot the praise that has been given them. The White Leghorn has been bred along lines to produce a large framed high sta- tioned bird, w
. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 107 boms; Single Comb Black and White Minorcas and Rose Comb Black Mmorcas; Blue Andalusians, White Faced and Mottled Anconas. All of the varieties in this class are non- sitters and have tested egg^ records of from 200 to 280 eggs per year per hen. WHITE LEGHORNS. Single Comb White Leghorns have become very popular as an all round egg farm biid for California and are surely worthy ot the praise that has been given them. The White Leghorn has been bred along lines to produce a large framed high sta- tioned bird, which has given them something of a lead over the other varieties m this class both for the production of large eggs beauty and all around usefulness. A flock of these birds with their snow white plumage and sprightly appearance, foraging. Single Comb White Leghorns. on a California alfalfa field makes the ideal picture of beauty and productiveness. While White Leghorns are considered easier to breed true to feather than some other of the varieties carry- ing several color pigments in their plumage, high class speci- mens m this variety are highly prized and really are as rare as some ot the breeds considered very hard to breed The ad- vantage m breeding the White over some of the Parti-colored breeds is that the percentage of culls is very much smaller and the average quality of the flock easier to maintain. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burbridge, Mabelle A. (Mabelle Antoinette), b. 1872. [Los Angeles? Cal. ]
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