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of breeding. If they were of the beef type, their vitality and 

 ability to produce flesh economically would diminish with each 

 generation. If they were a fancy type, the breeder would be 

 up against a stone wall of discouraging experiments. 



I would advise the reader to take special notice of Fig. 

 43, as this cut shows the method of determining prepotency 

 plainer than any of the others. 



Fig. 41 shows a hen with prepotency full i. e., thumb 

 1 /s of an inch behind forefinger. Sometimes a poultryman 

 will be lucky enough to mate up a lot of pens of the right 

 type for his purpose with heads like Figs. 41, 42, and 43. His 

 business prospers, and his neighbors call him "lucky." While 



FIG. 42 Showing thumb V* of an i n h behind forefinger; 

 indicating hen has prepotency large. (See Skull No. 1, Fig. 35.) 



