THE SATINETTE FAlVnLY. 



Road, Birmingham, and every point was thor- 

 oughly gone into in reference to the breed. 

 Ultimately the club standard, as drawn up, was 

 adopted. 



It has been slightly revised since, but for all 

 practical purposes it remains the same as origin- 

 ally adopted. I think we were very fortunate in 

 having so experienced a breeder as Mr. Ludlow 

 to guide us in this matter, especially when it 

 came to the important features of lacings or 

 markings, because I distinctly remember when 

 this question was discussed Mr. Ludlow was 

 most emphatic on the necessity of not drawing 

 any hard and fast lines. This, interpreted, 

 meant we must not say in our standard when 

 speaking of lacing that the feathers must be 

 narrow, or finely edged, or medium, or broad only. 

 Or again, that no bird should be considered 

 standard which did not possess the one kind of 

 lacing or marking. No, our standard, said Mr. 

 Ludlow, must include laced, spangled or arrow- 

 tipped, and so long as the markings are regular, 

 lacing narrow, medium or broad, well defined, 

 and even (which, I may add, they invariably 

 are), they are all eligible for the show pen. As 

 Mr. Ludlow very justly contended, drawing hard 

 and fast rules would mean the shutting out of 

 some of our best birds. 



TYPE AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES. 



For the information of my young friends, 

 I may state that so far as what is known as type 



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