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oil the right is blockier and deeper, a better paraHelogram 

 type. The low-vitality birds have a tendency to fill a tri- 

 angle, while those of high vitality have a tendency to fill 

 a parallelogram, well filled out at the breast and the abdo- 

 men ; in other words, in the latter you have the greater 

 vigor, greater eating capacity, better growing capacity, a 

 better individual all around. These birds are the same age, 

 and this one would weigh from l^/o to 2 pounds more than 

 the one of low vitality. The Leghorn on the left has a longer 

 shank than the other one and a longer neck, but lacks depth 

 and capacity. 



JSTow, notice the way the white Leghorns stand. One is a 

 timid, frightened individual and the other is a bold, vigor- 

 ous, courageous individual. That fellow is looking for a 

 scrap, and this fellow expects it and tries to get away. No- 

 tice the difference in the size of the comb, size and shape of 

 the facial appendages, the way they carry their tail feathers 

 and the way they crow, because the birds that are good 

 breeders, the birds you would want .to get to mate, whether 

 male or female, are the ones that cackle and crow loud and 

 long. T^ever but once in demonstrating high and low vitality 

 have I known a low-vitality male to crow before an au- 

 dience, and that was when there were two birds in one coop, 

 and the coop fell down and the two got together and had 

 more or less of a scrap, in which the vigorous one was on 

 top most of the time. We picked up the birds, and the 

 low-vitality fellow illustrated a human characteristic in hen 

 nature, — he was so glad to get away from the other fellow 

 that he crowed. You have often seen those who did not 

 dare to fight on one side of the fence, wait until they got 

 over to where the other fellow could not reach them and 

 then " sass back." That is exactly wdiat happened here. 

 But crowing is a splendid sign of vigor and masculinity, 

 the same as cackling and singing are fine signs of femi- 

 ninity. Time will not permit me to go into all the details, 

 to distinguish low from high vitality. Size alone doesn't 

 indicate it. 



Here we have a capon (Fig. 6), a nonsexed individual on 

 the left as compared with the Barred Rock cockerel of the 



