AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



which seems best suited to your needs, stick to that 

 one breed; for, though a few disadvantages may 

 crop out, remember that no breed is perfect in every 

 respect. Concentrate all your energies upon devel- 

 oping to the utmost the special qualities in your 

 breed, and you will soon find that careful breed- 

 ing pays. Don't change around so often, or make 

 so many crosses, that you can't tell what breed you 

 have if somebody should ask you. Pure-breds are 

 always preferable to crosses. Not only are pure- 

 bred fowls more uniform and attractive, but nine 

 times out of ten the man who crosses two breeds 

 in an endeavor to combine the good qualities of 

 each breed in one fowl, instead combines the bad 

 qualities. 



There is no room for argument as to the advan- 

 tages of standard breeds. Pure-bred live stock of 

 Why Standard every kind is better than mongrels or 

 Breeds scrubs, and the difference is just as 



Are Best marked with poultry as with anything 

 else. The progressive poultryman of to-day will 

 have nothing to do with stock other than pure- 

 bred; not only fanciers breed pure-bred fowls, but 

 also all successful market plants, whether the spe- 

 cialty is eggs or meat, or both. Standard-bred 

 poultry means a more attractive and handsome 

 flock of fowls, because they are all uniform in size, 

 type and color ; it means more eggs and larger size 

 in the birds, because the pure-bred fowl is the 



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