. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 359. Fig. 346. Single-Comb White Leghorn cock (Photograph by E. J. Hall) generally had reddish hackles, backs, and saddles. Though re- ports of exhibitions every year described males quite perfect in color, it was about 1900 before males of a uniform shade of buff were produced. The rose-combed va- riety was developed in America, apparently by crossing with the Rose-Combed White Leghorn. White Leghorns (single-comb and rose- comb). The single- combed variety was developed in this country contemporaneo
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 359. Fig. 346. Single-Comb White Leghorn cock (Photograph by E. J. Hall) generally had reddish hackles, backs, and saddles. Though re- ports of exhibitions every year described males quite perfect in color, it was about 1900 before males of a uniform shade of buff were produced. The rose-combed va- riety was developed in America, apparently by crossing with the Rose-Combed White Leghorn. White Leghorns (single-comb and rose- comb). The single- combed variety was developed in this country contemporaneously with the brown and black varieties, attracting less attention than the brown at first, but later becoming more popular with specialists in egg produc- tion. The color of the plumage is white throughout,—naturally a creamy white, the dazzling white seen in the exhibition room being secured (except in rare cases) only by washing or bleaching the feathers. In its relation to other varieties the White Leghorn represented the last stage in the reduction of the color of the black-red fowl of the initial type, the sev- o- 1 r k w^v t 1, .. , . Fig. 347. Single-Comb White Leghorn eral intermediate stages being hen. (Photograph from owner, Harmon brown, red, buff, white. Bradshaw, Lebanon, Indiana). 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 Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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