Show SPORTS OF THE FARM white plymouth rock chicken Is one of most familiar another interesting Inter eiting and valuable diversion Is I 1 development of polled durham breed of cattle the dwarf tomato li to another by I 1 rot JOHN willand the term I 1 sport mean means many things to many p broyle uple we each think in our own language and see the same object in different colon colors from various ides sides sport from the standpoint tand point ot of the man interested la in heredity r Is an unprecedented and un accountable change of character la to the offspring ot at perfectly normal pa rente rents this change may be slight or it may be absolutely revolutionary but if it it be a true sport it has never occurred before in the ancestry of this particular individual the neva ne character may effect ono one cigal or the whole structure of the there Is no way of tracing the of the change and no certainty that it will be transmitted to the descendants of the sport it Is from these abrupt spontaneous appearance of strange character that some of our most valuable va of plane plans and animals have havo come perhaps ono one of the mod most fl millar sports tn in animal world Is to the th valte plymouth ily mouth rock chicken this arletty Is a pure sport derived from the barred variety and the pure whito white chicks mccu ed in two or three places in this country at about the ram raint time fortunately they transmitted their white color to their offspring and thus was aas created a new breed purs pure white in color and true plymouth rocks in every other characteristic another interesting and valuable sport Is the polled durham breed of cattle a hornless breed descended from tho the true me sports of the Shor shorthorn thorris the drat first true polled shorthorns were born of horned parents but their off spring were usually hornless in the vegetable blo kingdom one ot of the latest sports la Is the dwarf tomato wo we told you about in a recent recert article it came spontaneously from tall stock lud full sized fruit ic it smaller numb numbers rs and the stalk was stiff enough to support the fruit it immediately became and bids fair to supplant its parent variety for held field use because it produces more and better fruit to the acre nere sport without number have oc burred among the flowers flower fl and most of ue us are familiar with numerous nume roul CA caien a W of unexpected new hopes shapes and color coloring ln many of the finest varieties of ap ples ind and other tree fruits aro are of open origin and wo we credit a number of at valuable grains and field crops to tho the aine same mysterious forces which we know not while giving sports due credit we vr must acknowledge that cros cross bre edins and careful election selection are fully ae as lia ila if it not more so 0 o and they much more a to mankind A great many mutations mutu loni of character which are aro called ports sports ary are really changes duo to crossing cr one character alth another |