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presented by means of illustrations. Word pictures fail when it comes 

 to delineating chickens. Even in describing the shape of a bird, 

 the average fancier talks with his hands. Nothing tells the story of 

 a bird more completely, more truly, more forcibly, than a good 

 picture. Especially is this true of the detailed markings of the plum- 

 age, but in those varieties which have a red ground color on which 

 black is imposed, the camera fails its purpose, for both red and black- 

 print black in the negative and the beautiful contrast is lost. 



Any day some unknown breeder, perhaps with stock from some 

 other obscure source, may come into the limelight as a foremost 

 fancier of this fine variety. No one has a patent on the breeding 

 of fine poultry. 



