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 . he best chicks, you know where to go formore of the same kind. My experience teaches me that inorder to obtain what you want you must breed from the de-scription of bird that suits you. My first attempt with Leghorns was in 1893, at whichtime I had the S. C. Black variety. In 1894 I produced a yel-low legged, black hen, the equal of which in color of legsand plumage I think was never seen outside of our stock.
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 . he best chicks, you know where to go formore of the same kind. My experience teaches me that inorder to obtain what you want you must breed from the de-scription of bird that suits you. My first attempt with Leghorns was in 1893, at whichtime I had the S. C. Black variety. In 1894 I produced a yel-low legged, black hen, the equal of which in color of legsand plumage I think was never seen outside of our went through the show room year after year, alwayswinning first, up to the last Mid-Continental show at Kan-sas City, Mo., when she was shown with one of her sons, a yellow-legged cockerel, each winning a first prize in a largeclass. In 1895 I first exhibited a R. C. White Leghorn, winningextensively at Colorado Springs. The next year I bred fromthe same stock and was successful in the show room. Thenext year I bred from a bird that won as cockerel and ascock. Last year I bred from birds sired by first cock Square Garden, New York, 1897, and again the pro-duce Mr. P. H. Edwards Winning R. C. W. Leghorn Cockerel. It will be seen that to breed winners I bred from win-ners, and I never failed. Like will produce like the same inpoultry as in other things, and if your stock of birds willnot hatch uniformly you have mongrel blood somewhere,and the way to do is to find it by single mating, then throwit out. If it is in all your stock, throw them all out, andbuy from some one who can prove to you that he has whathe claims—thoroughbred stock that will produce its kind. The illustration herewith is of a R. C. White cockerelthat has won first every time he has been shown. By theway, whenever any one tells you they have a bird thatscored away up to one hundred and then some in the shade,just ask them who were the judges. For there are judgesand judges. p. H EDWARDS.
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