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would be too dark; but in this you will have cockerels that will in- 

 tensify the color of light pullets, darker than the dams, by selecting 

 one like the sire. The pullets mated to their sire, and the dams to 

 one of the cockerels, like the sire, the pullets of each mating the 

 third year will be the ones to select for the breeding pen, as they 

 will have prime color, and will fall but little short of standard require- 

 ments; and the cockerels, the product of the old sire and the pullets, 

 should be at the head of the pens. Mr. Felch recommends a similar 

 course of mating in the start to secure a line of breeders, and is in 

 substance somewhat like the one we have suggested. 



MATING No. i. We are indebted to Mr. Felch for the follow- 

 ing: " A male, like our original described sire (the one Mr. Felch 

 has reference to, is described by him too fully to repeat here, but in 

 substance that sire does not differ much from the one we have com- 

 mended), except that the breast be black, with small white centers, 

 thighs stone color, with fluff dark stone color, approaching black. 



u Mate pullets weighing full five and three-quarters to six 

 pounds, full breasts, plumage of same fully laced, yet the white cen- 

 ter of good size, and to grow smaller in the plumage and the black 

 lacing wider as it approaches the tail, when it merges into a full 

 black tail and stone colored fluff, with thighs nearly black, beak and 

 shanks yellow, comb as described in the ancestor's. This mating 

 to produce one line of sires, and no sire should be used from any 

 other mating, if we hope to see this breed reach that accuracy and 

 uniformity of breeding we see in Light Brahmas. 



" MATING No. 2. A male that has the form of structure consist- 

 ent with standard requirement, and good clear color, save, I care 

 not how black he be in breast, wing bar and tail, with dark stone 

 colored fluff. With such a mate the pullets that look well from a 

 distance, but show breast off in color, the lacing having crescents, 

 the white in the middle of web of feather reaching the outer edge, 

 with wide white center, penciled in the cushion plumage, and hav- 

 ing light colored fluff and legs. (Mr. Felch uses the word stone 

 color frequently, and it is intended to convey to the mind a certain 

 shade of blue-black, like the bars on Plymouth Rocks.) 



" MATING No. 3. Cockerel having a pure silver colored lacing 

 and neck, back nearly white, silver- white laced breast, with wide 

 center, gray thighs and breast, wing bars, if possible, with the color 

 described, gray fluff, tail black, beak and legs yellow. 



" Females with dark heads and beaks and dark hackles, back and 

 cushion nearly black, heavy laced breast, body and thighs, and fluff 



