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to a great extent, your choice of a breed. At least, if 

 you decide on commercial poultry, first, last, and all the 

 time, you may cut out from consideration most of the 

 breeds, without further parley with yourself or any one 

 else. The commercial line has its own two divisions, 

 which are not wholly sharp, because, even though one 

 go in for eggs especially, the conditions are such that 



The Most Typical Representative of American Ideas among General Purpose 

 Fowls. American Class. (Courtesy of Mrs. Benigna G. Kalb, Texas) 



he must produce more or less poultry meat for sale. If 

 you are planning on a large scale, the matter of two or 

 three cents a pound will be of moment to you, and you 

 will be careful not to select a breed which has black pin- 

 feathers. The Houdan, the Langshan, and the Black 

 Minorca will each present its appeal to you, it may be, 

 but you will not listen, because, although each of these 

 has its " talking points," it has not become an outstand- 

 ing breed in this country. And, when this is true of a 

 long-tried variety, this one fact alone is sufficient to warn 



