AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
which seems best suited to your needs, stick to that 
one breed; for, though a few disadvantages may 
crop out, remember that no breed is perfect in every 
respect. Concentrate all your energies upon devel- 
oping to the utmost the special qualities in your 
breed, and you will soon find that careful breed- 
ing pays. Don’t change around so often, or make 
so many crosses, that you can’t tell what breed you 
have if somebody should ask you. Pure-breds are 
always preferable to crosses. Not only are pure- 
bred fowls more uniform and attractive, but nine 
times out of ten the man who crosses two breeds 
in an endeavor to combine the good qualities of 
each breed in one fowl, instead combines the bad 
qualities. 
There is no room for argument as to the advan- 
tages of standard breeds. Pure-bred live stock of 
Why Standard every kind is better than mongrels or 
Breeds scrubs, and the difference is just as 
are Best marked with poultry as with anything 
else. ‘The progressive poultryman of to-day will 
have nothing to do with stock other than pure- 
bred; not only fanciers breed pure-bred fowls, but 
also all successful market plants, whether the spe- 
cialty is eggs or meat, or both. Standard-bred 
poultry means a more attractive and handsome 
flock of fowls, because they are all uniform in size, 
type and color; it means more eggs and larger size 
in the birds, because the pure-bred fowl is the 
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