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 In the year 1907 I received from my friend, Andrew P. O'Conor, of Maryland, two pullets -- one a black-red with pea com, the other a wheaten with single comb. I lost the pea comb pullet. I put the single comb pullet at the race track where I was walking a stag for Henry Deans -- a pure black-red with white legs.

 Early the following spring the O'Conor hen stole her nest in the bush and brought out a large clutch of chicks, of which nine were stags -- all black-reds with white and yellow legs and of very deep wine color; hence the name Claret.

 We walked and fought them, and they proved to be vert successful. Upon breeding them further, one in every eight or ten came white, and they are still doing so. In fact, this year we have many whites and a few spangles.

 I have tried to keep the same blood, as nearly as possible. All crosses have been a failure, with few exceptions.

 I notice that certain people in Houston, Texas and Hendersonville, North Carolina, and also in Michigan, are advertising Clarets for sale. They are not my blood unless they were stolen, hwich I doubt.