making awards. But I think these "fair" lengths will open the 

 eyes of our breeders. They are: 25 to 30 inches for ducks, 

 and 28 to 36 inches for the drakes. Runners, by the yard, as 

 one might say! 



At the mammoth Crystal Palace show in London, late in 

 1912, Mr. J. W. Walton, Honorable Secretary of the British 

 Indian Runner Club, in connection with Mr. Dodd, judged the 

 Runners. A portion of the floor was wired off, and every bird 

 was put on the floor to show its paces, those of each class com- 

 peting thus together. The result was an entire reversal of the 

 order of precedence from what would have seemed proper when 

 the birds were in the coops. No Runner can be fairly judged 

 without being seen both near at hand and on the move. 



The stern should be very different from the Pekin type so 

 often seen here. Birds that have laid for a considerable time do 

 get heavier at the rear, but the true shape is rather light at the 

 stern, tapering from the thighs to the tail. This, with length 

 and carriage, gives a bird whose distinctiveness differentiates it 

 from all other types the minute the eye falls on it. This, to my 

 mind, is what we want, especially as this is the heavy laying type 

 in this breed, according to testimony. 



Mr. Scott, of New Zealand, calls the I. R. the "Queen of 

 Layers," and states that his best bird gave him nearly $10.00' 

 worth of eggs in one year. The average price was about 37^c 

 per dozen, according to his report of his "World's Record." Of 

 course, he does not breed the American Runner. 



It was certainly not more than 13 years after Mr. Thomlin- 

 son's first "particular attention" that the first birds were im- 

 ported into this country. This makes it very probable indeed 

 that the earlier birds imported into America, were very poor 

 birds, from the present point of view of the English Indian 

 Runner Duck Club. In Mr. Thomlinson's book appears a por- 

 trait of a Canadian duck, "never beaten in Canada," sketched — 



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