PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD J.Vfl BREED HOOK !> 



about the production of the highest exhibition qualities in Plym- 

 outh Rocks in every instance. The time may probab'y never 

 come when hard and fast rules for all phases of breeding prob- 

 lems can be well laid down, but there is a vast difference between 

 an attempt to achieve this seemingly impossible accomplishment 

 and the policy of complete silence on the many problems that 

 confront the breeder, especially the beginner, who. heretofore, 

 has had no authentic source of information on the practical 

 problems involved in the breeding of Standard fowls. 



And we believe that most breeders, certainly most of those 

 who are inexperienced, will welcome reliable information de- 

 signed to solve the many difficult problems associated with this 

 task ; will appreciate having in complete and connected form a 

 plain statement of the fundamental principles involved in this 

 work, and will welcome reliable guidance in working out the 

 details of the special problems that confront them. (H. T. J.) 



LIST OF AUTHORS 



The Association is indebted to Messrs. Homer T. Jackson 

 for several articles in Part I, M. L. Chapman for the article 

 on conditioning White $irds, to T. F. McGrew for the treatises 

 on White and Silver-Penciled Plymouth Rocks, to H. A. Nourse 

 for the treatise on Practical Poultry Keeping, and to T. E. 

 Quisenbury and W. R. Graham for articles on Utility Features 

 of Plymouth Rocks. Their initials are appended to the articles 

 written by them. All articles not so appended were written by 

 the Editor. 



