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stock. Such stock may frequently be sold and 

 used for breeders after having served a period 

 of forced egg production, provided it represents 

 fairly well the type of fowls to which it belongs. 

 Fowls are more likely to represent a type in 

 color if they are solid -colored than if the plu- 

 mage is distinguished by various markings, as 

 seen in many of the useful breeds. In other 

 words, the poultryman finds it much easier to 

 develop the one point of egg production than to 

 breed for plumage and develop for egg produc- 

 tion at the same time. One important principle 

 in stock breeding should not be forgotten, that 

 it is much easier to develop one useful quality 

 to its greatest perfection than to develop two 

 qualities which are not closely correlated. Con- 

 sequently, it is found much easier to produce 

 strong, robust fowls of a solid color for egg pro- 

 duction than to produce equally as good birds 

 of a colored variety, for both exhibition and use- 

 ful qualities. 



Minorca. This breed is thought to have been 

 introduced into England from the island of Mi- 

 norca, in the Mediterranean sea, and it is said 

 by some poultry authorities to be the progenitor 

 of the White -faced Black Spanish breed. These 

 are the heaviest of the Mediterranean fowls. The 

 cock should weigh 8 pounds and the hen 6%. 

 They have the great laying tendencies of the 



