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that he can afford to buy it in quantity, proceeds. He buys 

 a small amount, and simply uses it as a foundation stock 

 from which to produce seed or plants for a large crop in 

 some future year. He should do the same way with poul- 

 try, and should have as much patience in working toward 

 the results he wants. 



The second objection to developing common stock is that, 

 in workino; alona; lines in which no one else is interested, 

 one almost invariably comes before long to the place where 

 he needs new bh)od ; but, as he cannot get it from stock 

 bred on similar lines, there being no other such stock, he 

 has to either go without new blood or use something differ- 

 ent. He has a choice 

 of only two equally 

 unsatisfactory courses. 

 The dilemma is easily 

 avoided by using fowls 

 of a popular breed, in 

 which it is always pos- 

 sible to get some such 

 stock as one wants. 



What puzzles the per- 

 son who wants to sfet 



a few good birds to use 

 as foundation stock is 

 where to go to get such 



stock. He finds many breeders, all claiming to have just 

 what he needs. If he is where he comes in contact with 

 many people who have at one time or another bought stock 

 from these breeders, he is very apt to come across one 

 or more people who tell him of experiences with this, 

 that and the other breeder that make him think he had 

 better not risk an order with any of them. I get scores 

 of letters every year from such people. They write to 

 me supposing that I can tell them all about the different 

 stocks, — which is good, which is bad ; and about the 

 breeders, — who is reliable and who is not. They say 

 something like this: "I have onl}^ a little money to spend 

 for fowls. I have had to save very carefully to get it, 



Pair of Ideal Silver Laced Wyandottes. 



