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"A LITTLE JOURNEY 



Breeding For Egg Production 



IN grouping together these splendid matings to produce such unusual ex- 

 hibition birds, it would be well to keep in mind that a female is never con- 

 sidered as a candidate for any of my breeding pens unless she has behind her 

 a remarkable egg record an actual trap nest record. I shall probably 

 never get away from the idea of breeding first for egg production and then 

 building other points of quality afterwards. 



Certain principles of breeding for egg-production have won general accept- 

 ance among breeders. I shall take time, at this point, to mention a few of the 

 principles I regard as established. 



In the first place, I believe that high egg production is the accumulated 

 result of the selection of high production breeding stock carried on for many 

 generations. This is what I mean when I say that Anconas are bred to lay. 

 In all my experience as a breeder of Ancona stock. I have kept this one idea, 

 most prominent 



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Not that the quality of the eggs should be sacrificed to quantity, but that 

 the two should go hand in hand. I know that it is not at all necessary for 



