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trouble, be sure that the light bars of particularly finely barred 

 males are extremely clear. 



Females to Produce Exhibition Females. The ideal females 

 for the production of exhibition females are ideal exhibition 

 females ; but in practice the uncertainties in breeding are such 

 that this does not always work out. Females that are not them- 

 selves the very best of exhibiuon specimens are often the dams 

 of very high class, winning specimens. Such dams, however, 

 possess many of the attributes of winning specimens and, as a 

 rule, require only a little alteration to become very attractive 

 fowls. As an instance, females whose plumage may be a little 

 coarse in barring, lack an underbar or so, whose feathers are 

 improperly tipped, need but to be properly mated to produce 

 progeny the equal of any. A finely barred male that is, at the 

 same time, the son of an excellent female, is probably all that is 

 required for the coarsely barred female with the desired con- 

 trast in colors, the well-defined bars, the strength of underbar- 

 ring, the wing markings described in the Standard, to produce 

 exhibition females of high quality. A female with too strong 

 a dark bar can be easily mated to correct that fault, and if she 

 is highly meritorious otherwise, her progeny should equal the 

 best. So we might give instance after instance, but after all it 

 is but a matter of breeding generation after generation from first 

 class birds, and of corrective matings, as both these principles 

 must be applied and with the skill born of good judgment and 

 constant and careful discriminating observation. 



