124 LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING SECOND SERIES. 



it depends on selecting for each demand to which one caters such fowls as will best meet that 

 demand find would not meet a better paying demand. Not all good qualities can be combined 

 in pqual degree In the same fowl, but by proper selection of breeding stock year by year a 

 fcrerder can have stock in which he combines with good market and laying qualities the possi- 

 bility of great excellence from a fancier's standpoint. If he does this he has always three 

 classes of prospective 'customers fanciers, farmers, and poultrymen who wish fowls which 

 they are not ashamed to have those who know good fowls see, which will at the same time give 

 a good account of themselves at the nests and on the table. All these can be supplied from the 

 same flock, if the needs of the two extreme classes are always jointly considered In breeding. 

 If either is neglected the stock is quickly brought to the point where only one class can be satis- 

 factorily supplied. No matter which class this is the possibilities of immediate profit, and 

 what is more iuiportHnt, the opportunity to extend one's business are greatly curtailed. 



Breeders should diMinguish between essential and non-esscutlal points, work for every point 

 essential to any profitable demand, and despise no non-essential because it is immaterial to 

 them personally. 



