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cock at home that shed out too light for a show bird, but would 

 make a fine pullet breeder. I told him I did not believe in 

 double mating to produce Buff color, and also that the cock 

 erel in question was too high in color to suit me, as he was 

 more of a red than a Buff color. Mr. Buff Breeder then said 

 that I might be all right in mating Blacks, but he could see 

 that I did not understand mating Buffs. I did not tell him 

 that my favorite color was Buff and that I had bred more win- 

 ners in that color than I ever did in Black, and that I did it 

 by single mating. 



Now in order to breed and hold the golden buff color, you 

 should mate the male and female with the same shade of even 

 golden buff, with under color to the skin. Be sure to train 

 your eye for the golden buff color, not the light cin- 

 namon buff nor the high colored red buff. From this 

 mating the majority of the chicks will be golden buff in 

 color. There will also be a few of the light cinnamon buff, 

 and a few of the high colored red buff. If you keep on mat- 

 ing the male and female that have the same golden buff color, 

 in about three years, you will find that you are breeding win- 

 ning cockerels and pullets from a single mating, and you won't 

 have to raise two hundred birds, more or less, to get a few 

 good ones. After you have mated this way for a few years, 

 with due regard to type, you will find that seventy-five per 

 cent, of all the Buff birds you raise can go into the show room. 



MATING THE WHITES. 



We will now take up the mating of Whites. The amateur 

 might think that white chicks are the easiest to produce, but 

 it is quite the reverse. A pure white strain of chickens is one 

 of the hardest things to produce ; especially, in the male bird, 

 although there are quite a number of strains where the males 



