THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



viated; so the following hints on buff matings 

 are mostly gleaned from other people's experi- 

 ence and condensed as follows: 



Study the male birds first: select the very 

 best you can get, then carefully note each 

 point and compare them with the demands of 

 the standard. The best bird will be lacking 

 in some respects, so choose the pullets to 

 counterbalance his weaknesses. Should he be 

 too large, have too large a comb, legs too long, 

 or some other point of formation over-accent- 

 uated, let the pullets be correspondingly weak 

 in that special point. Don't lose sight of the 

 fact that type should come first in selection. 

 Time and judicious mating will eventually cor- 

 rect color faults. In the case of Wyandotte 

 males the most generally seen defects are these : 



Too high on legs ; too long on back ; narrow- 

 ness across the saddle, giving a pinched ap- 

 pearance to base of tail; wings carried too 

 high; perhaps at an acute angle to the back, 

 thus preventing the graceful concave sweep to 

 the tail that should mark the Wyandotte; un- 



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