Show DEVELOPS POULTRY WHICH CANNOT FLY Penguin Variety V Gets A Away Awny From Fence Problem Penguin poultry which cannot fly over o a two foot fence may en end l for tor all time the quarrels that so often arise between people who keep chickens and their gar gardening neighbors This happy possibility Is due to the discovery l of an inherited InherIted Inherited character In poultry called se clipping If-clipping Dr D C Warren of the Kansas agricultural experiment station who ho has bas studied l the Inheritance of this character finds that the flight feath feath- feathers feathers ers of the wings are defective e and break off oft as ns they grow so that the wIng remains permanently clipped This condition Is Inherited 1 accord accord- accor according l ing log to the called so-called laws as a dominant character By mat mat- matIng mating ing lag flightless birds with normal fowls ls and selecting those which pro pro- produce produce duce luce only flightless offspring It Is a rather easy matter to transfer this character to any of ot the standard breeds of poultry While poultry breeders who Intro Intro- Introduce introduce Introduce duce this characteristic Into their flocks will not need high fences the they may have ha to rearrange their chickens sleeping quarters for many ben hen roosts would woul be altogether out of range of penguin poultry A few months ago a somewhat similar m mutation In the guinea fowl Was reported In this while the end result was the same It was arrived ed nt at by nature In a n different way The flight feathers do not develop le at all allIn allin allIn In tile the Kiwi guinea and the char char- character character acter Is Inherited as a n recessive e character rather than a dominant |