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from pure Cinnamons with an evenly - marked and crested 

 Norwich hen of good quality ; at the same time put another 

 Cinnamon cock with a good pure Lancashire crested hen, and 

 select from these pairs the best of the crested and plain-head 

 youngsters, picking out all those that have pink eyes or are 

 Cinnamon variegated, and mating them with pure greens, as 

 some of the progeny are sure to be. Be sure to select and 

 keep the best of the crested birds. The following year keep 

 the best crests and those that show the best Cinnamon quali- 

 ties, and cross them with Yorkshire Cinnamons, as these birds 

 inherit a lot of Coppy blood, and it will help you to get size 

 and crest, the latter being the most difficult thing to obtain, 

 as the admixture of Cinnamon blood tends to shorten the 

 crest, and this is the greatest difficulty you will have to 

 overcome. 



If you prefer the self-coloured Cinnamons, select the greens 

 or heaviest variegated from one pair, and run them with the 

 self Cinnamons or heaviest variegated Cinnamons bred from 

 the other pair, selecting as a matter of course, one a plain- 

 head and the other a crest ; from the later cross select the 

 best-crested birds, and mate them with pure bred Yorkshire 

 Cinnamons the following year, and so on, going back to the 

 crested Norwich and Cinnamon alternately as required for the 

 improvement of crest and colour. But if you prefer to breed 

 evenly-marked and crested Cinnamons, which are by far the 

 handsomest birds of this variety, instead of whole Cinnamons, 

 select the best of the Cinnamon variegated plain-heads, and 

 put with them marked and crested Norwich birds for first 

 cross ; from the produce of these choose the best of the 

 crested birds, and pair again with the best of the Cinnamons 

 variegated, the produce of the other pairs. Choose hens with 

 Cinnamon marked wings and caps, or the nearest approach to 

 such. In the following year you must exercise your judg- 

 ment in selecting birds bred from the pairs named, and if 

 you succeed in breeding any evenly - marked and crested, 

 which you ought to do with ordinary luck, keep them, and 

 pair with hens or cocks closely related to them, and in a 



