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the production of a speciality which has become 

 quite famous. Successful practices of this kind are 

 comparatively few, and are of foremost interest to 

 the specialist. Whenever pure breeds are crossed 

 it is for the production of a merchantable product, 

 and the use of these fowls for the production of pure- 

 bred stock is therefore lost. 



Breed pure-bred stock. The question is frequently 

 asked whether it will pay to breed pure-bred stock. 

 If the answer is made candidly and honestly it must 

 be given as both affirmative and negative. It cer- 

 tainly will pay to breed pure-bred stock if proper 

 food, care and management be given. It probably 

 will not pay the average farmer to invest in expen- 

 sive pure-bred stock and to keep this stock in the 

 way in which the fowls of mixed breeding are gen- 

 erally kept throughout the country. As the pure- 

 bred stock had received superior advantages in 

 order to bring it to its greatest usefulness, so must 

 it receive advantages which the common stock of 

 the country does not receive if it is to remain supe- 

 rior. In other words, the common stock of mixed 

 breeding throughout the country is practically 

 equal to the thoroughbred stock that is kept under 

 the same conditions for any considerable length of 

 time. If neglect and improper feeding are not to enter 

 into the problem, the pure-bred stock will, undoubt- 

 edly, give by far the best satisfaction. The grain- 

 raiser finds that a certain variety of grain is hardy 



