. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 348. Single-Comb Black Leg- horn pullet, Turtle Point farm, Saratoga, New York. (Photograph from owner) Black Leghorns (single-comb) have been bred in this country continuously since the early im- portations, but never extensively. In the dark subvariety of the Brown Leghorn and the Black Leghorn we have the stages of the intensification of color from the original type. Mottled Leghorns (single-comb), the Anconas, are given in the American Standard exactly the same description for shape as Leg- horns. They have distinctive color char
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 348. Single-Comb Black Leg- horn pullet, Turtle Point farm, Saratoga, New York. (Photograph from owner) Black Leghorns (single-comb) have been bred in this country continuously since the early im- portations, but never extensively. In the dark subvariety of the Brown Leghorn and the Black Leghorn we have the stages of the intensification of color from the original type. Mottled Leghorns (single-comb), the Anconas, are given in the American Standard exactly the same description for shape as Leg- horns. They have distinctive color characteristics only. The plumage is black with each feather tipped with white, giving an even mottling of white on a black ground. According to most authentic accounts the variety came to England from Italy, and thence to America. Note. The five foregoing are the Italian varieties, in which there is general interest in America and which are commonly seen in our shows. Other varieties of this class are seen only occasionally and in small numbers. Some observations on the relative values of these varieties, and on certain differences between them, are therefore better presented here than at the end of the list. In everything but color the Leghorns as they came from Italy were the same. In the American Standard the descriptions for shape are the same for all. Theoretically, the vari- eties are identical except in color, but the differentiation of a breed into varieties inevitably tends to further differentiation as the result of individual differences. In addition, introductions of foreign blood usually bring in different elements, and though the purpose of these is to strengthen a variety or breed character- istic, and foreign characters are syste- Fig. 349. Ancona hen. (Photograph matically bred out by fanciers, the use of from United States Department of the fancier's culls, and indifferent selection Agriculture). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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