CHAPTER XXXVI 

 SPECIALTY CLUBS 



Growth of Clubs Retarded by Indifference of Breeders — Practical Worth 

 of Clubs — Conditions Under Which Specialty Clubs Labor^Duty 

 of the Breeders to Support These Clubs. 



It is indeed gratifying to note tliat the majority of our breeds 

 have specialty clubs to look out for their interests. These clubs 

 are doing wonderful work and they are growing slowly but 

 surely. However, they are not receiving the support that they 

 should and this lack of support is due to nothing more or less 

 than one thing, i. e., INDIFFERENCE on the part of the breeders. 

 There seems to be a great many men in the pigeon world who 

 love their birds and never lose an occasion to boost them 

 whenever a novice is around yet they never join a specialty 

 club. If all of the breeders of Hungarians would join the 

 specialty club for that breed think what strides that club could 

 and would make. So it is with others clubs. 



Of what practical worth is a specialty club? It is worth 

 every bit of support that can be given it because it proves this 

 in the things that it does and can accomplish. The breeds arc 

 boosted by these clubs, the real worth of the birds which they 

 foster is made known in various ways and prizes are offered by 

 them to breeders who raise the best birds of the different 

 breeds. At all times these clubs are working toward bettering 

 the breeds and they are doing it. Above all they make up and 

 adopt certain standards to which we must breed our birds in 

 order to compete for prizes, etc. It is only by breeding to these 

 recognized standards that we can ever hope to get very far. If 

 the specialty clubs did nothing more than to revise and better 



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