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tliis i)articular pair. Compare these and study the results of 

 your matiiigs. It is Ijeyond the comprehension of the writer 

 liow so many hroeders can go on >'ear after year and keep no 

 records at alL 



Another point wliile we are on tlie suliject of record keei)ing. 

 Let us look at our record slicet again and if we want to know 

 what liird of our-s won at a certain show we can find it written 

 there hefore vis. Rven an e.\iiil)ition record is kept to tell us 

 in black and white what our hirds are doing. 



To the breeders who Iveep no records at all and who flounder 

 around in the dai'k let me say that you are making a very 

 serious mistake if you do not keep them. It makes no difference 

 if you are a past master at mixing and properly balancing pig- 

 eon feeds, whethei' or not you know best in the world how to 

 market squabs, etc., unless you know what each and every 

 pair of your birds are doing you cannot truthfully say which 

 are desirables and which are non-desirables, and you cannot 

 find out these things without the proper records. 'If your plant 

 is not paying by all means install records at once and get to 

 the very bottom of things. Remend)er that the man who suc- 

 ceeds never lets anything stand in his way to overcome that 

 which hokls him back in business. Install a system of records 

 and find the troulile and then act accordingly. 



I wonder how many of us realize what made the two hundred 

 egg hen? The author can well remember when she was an 

 unheard of thing. Proper feeding and handling did a great 

 deal hut I am inclined to think that the trap nest dii the major 

 part of if. This trap nest showed its owner which lien laid and 

 which one tlid not. Records were kept also and lietween the two 

 the large egg yielders were selected and bred from and in turn 

 their daughters were trapnested and recorded and with the 

 invaluable assistance of records we have thousands of two 

 hundi'ed egg hens in America toda\' with the breeders working 

 hard for the three hundred egg hen. What systemati'j record.s 

 liave done for poulti-y it will do for pigeons — it will pick the 

 profit producers and show up the drones. 



