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will be your best deep or high birds; also it is good 
practice towards judging your own or other fanciers’ 
birds. 
As your birds begin to shape into the different tours 
you will have to examine them and your list closely 
together. If you have several tutors, so much the better 
for you. Place those young cocks which follow the 
particular old bird’s song with him, the remainder with 
another, and put them in the places you have to train 
them in. 
GLASS DOORS AND LIGHT CURTAINS 
Now put birds into cages with glass doors and light 
curtains. If you have only one good old cock, put your 
deeper-singing birds quite close to him and the higher 
ones you have to darken down or let them take their 
chance by themselves. The higher ones I put on the 
bottom or side row and place a piece of paper in front 
for extra darkening. I do not myself take the higher 
ones away together, but keep them so that they can hear 
the tutor bird, and darken them down. In this way 
you have a higher percentage of good birds than if you 
discard them. 
KEEP TO ONE STRAIN 
If you have birds with too many faults, you must 
take them away or you may spoil the good ones. It 
does not happen so easily if you breed only one class of 
birds ; you have then a better percentage of good birds 
because they harmonise better together ; you can hear 
more of the strain in them. 
A fancier who breeds with a mixture of birds 
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