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Some believe in the grade proposition — that is tliey cross pure 

 bred cocks with mongrel hens and vice versa. This will do 

 some good at least — it always does as may be seen in grade 

 cattle and grade poultry yet the writer could never see tlie logic 

 of it at all. My reason for this statement is that at best this is 

 not a half blood proposition because there is always, almost 

 without exception, the blood of the third breed in the offspring 

 and it is therefore a mongrel. Why waste full bred blood lines 

 in mixing stock because the results obtained are never as satis- 



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