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AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 



Mates for Short Bodied Females. The fourth sketch pre- 

 sents the problem of selecting the male mate for a female that 

 is too short in the rear or behind a line dropped perpendicularly 

 at the rear of the hock joints. The effect of such conformation 

 is to tip the body forward that is, to give it, as it is often ex- 

 pressed, a "ploughy" carriage. The male is long in both back 

 and body with a slight tendency toward too upright carriage. 

 Besides the fault already mentioned, the female, as represented, 

 has others of moment ; too long a tail which is carried too up- 

 rightly, a slightly cushioned back which is also pinched at the 

 sides and a croppy breast. The male with its broad back, very 

 fully covered with saddle hangers at the sides and at the same 

 time rather flat on top, is well selected to correct what tendency 



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COKKECTIVE BKEEDING V 



With female predisposed to accumulate abdominal fat too easily, 

 it is well to use a male of the opposite temperament one that is active 

 and sprightly. 



With female possessing too much fluff on the plumage, a male with 

 plumage inclined to firmness and fineness and narrower in feather should 

 help to correct and produce plumage in the offspring nearer to Standard. 



Legs too short in the female should be mated to males with legs 

 slightly above the average in length. F. L. Sewell. 



