PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BREEDING 
teristics, are all matters of inheritance, and if proper means 
are taken to select the desirable individuals all such charac- 
teristics can be changed at the will of the breeder. 
It is a fact, however, often overlooked, that the more traits 
for which one selects, the slower will be progress. For illus- 
tration: If in breeding for egg production, one-half the good 
layers are discarded for lack of fancy points, the progress will 
be just half as rapid. 
A discussion of the work in breeding for egg production at 
the Maine Experiment Station is taken up in the next chapter. 
