June 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.TT. 



469 



produce good birds of great size anl stamina, very liardy, and excellent 

 all-round fowls ; but less consideration will have to be given to V)utl" tails. 

 The natural tail of a liutt' bird is black with buff mounting ; and it is always 

 the case, that directly the fancier sets himself against nature, he gains the 

 fad he seeks, l)ut ultimately loses the bird. Bred to nature this is one of 

 the finest all-round fowls known to us. 



Golden Wyandottes. 



Golden \\'yandottPs produced in America in the same way as Silvers, only 

 using the Golden Hamburgh in place of the Silver, should be vciy much on a 

 par with the Silver variety for utility in egg-production ; but tliis lias been 

 demonstrated not to be so : and the reason has been found in the insertion 

 of Indian Game for colour mai'king, to the reduction of the output of eggs; 







y%,^f«^:^,^-<M 



No. 17. Black Orpingtons. A. Creaser. 



and if we follow in the footsteps of the English fancier, who is now sho\\ ing 

 Silver-laced Game, tb.en good-bye to the egg productiveness of Silver 

 Wyandottes. 



Breeds and Strains. 



Tn the third laying conipetiti(m on one of the plates on the pens, descriptive 

 of the owner and breed, was marked, "whose strain bred from'?" — asplenchd 

 idea, had it been thoroughly understood and rightly acted upon. One of the 

 great drawbacks to these tests has been the failure of knowing the blood con- 

 stituting the competing pen, so that in the event of a pen giving an excellent 

 showing, the owner could exactly repeat the same bhjod. In relation to 

 cro.ssing for egg-production, it i« now generally accepted that no cross will la}' 

 better than the already tested pure breeds. This has been accentuated in 

 the great laying of the " Chinese" Langshans. This great propensity must 



