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feated. There were a cock, hen and two pullets shipped from 

 Canada which had never been defeated in that country. The 

 owner paid $700 for them, and guaranteed they would win ; 

 my system defeated them. There was another man who gave 

 his manager $10,000 to buy the best birds that England could 

 produce ; my system defeated him. There was also another 

 man who bought up the best birds he could find in the West. 

 One of the birds cost $200, my system defeated it. 



Of course, I felt very proud of being the first poultryman in 

 the world who ever won all the five blues at Madison Square 

 Garden in one season, and defeated all the best birds that 

 money could buy. It was not the winning of the five blues 

 that pleased me the most, but the record I made in the cock- 

 erel and pullet class. When you stop to think of winning i, 

 3, 4, 5, on cockerels, and i, 2, 3, 5, on pullets in the best show 

 in the United States, it surely is a thing of which to be proud. 



I have been asked by a good many poultry editors if I ex- 

 pected to win again at New York Madison Square Garden 

 Show next winter, and my answer was, "Yes, I do expect to 

 win again at the Garden this winter." If I did not expect 

 to win, I should not be writing about this system to-day. If 

 I do not win, it will prove that my system is no good, and I 

 would not try to put before the public a system that stood 

 defeat. 



Now, my dear readers, don't think I expect to win the whole 

 five blues again this winter, for I do not. I do expect to w'in 

 something in all the classes, for you know it is considered that 

 any man who wins a blue at Madison Square Garden in any 

 class, during one season, has done a good year's work. 



Now, I have been a winner at the Garden with birds that 

 I have bred for twelve years, but not once in the twelve years 

 have I ever allowed myself to get a swelled head over any of 

 the records I have made. I was asked by Mr. Frank W. 



