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all members of the association sixty (60) days' notice 

 of the pendency of such application. 



SEC. 3. If upon consideration of all the evidence, the 

 association is satisfied that the breed or variety is 

 worthy of recognition in the Standard of Perfection; 

 that it has, in fact, the qualities and characteristics set 

 forth in the application; that all claims and character- 

 istics set forth iri the application are justified; and that 

 all requirements for its admission have been complied 

 with, a majority vote of the members present and voting 

 by written ballot shall admit the breed or variety to 

 the Standard of Perfection. 



STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD VARI- 

 ETIES OF POULTRY 



Show-room classifications are not the same in all 

 countries or even in all parts of the same country. 

 In America they are usually made to conform to the 

 breeds and their varieties as listed in the American 

 Standard of Perfection. But in addition to such varie- 

 ties, some show-room classifications will include a few 

 of the non-standard varieties, and the greater number 

 of them will permit classes for any of the non-standard 

 varieties, either of a particular breed or of many breeds. 



The list of breeds and varieties of poultry in the 

 accompanying table includes only those that are known 

 to reproduce their kind of a settled type of form and 

 color. In the column headed Standard Varieties are 

 listed the varieties of fowls included in the American 

 Standard of Perfection; in the column headed Non- 

 Standard Varieties are listed the varieties not included 

 in that publication, but which are bred in the United 

 States and other countries, many of them being standard 

 varieties in other countries. In compiling this list, a 

 slight deviation from a set rule has been made. The 

 Antwerp Brahma has been listed under the Asiatic 

 fowls as a non-standard variety. To be strictly correct, 



