veteran, Mr. I. K. Felch, furnished a sworn record, some years 

 ago, of a Light Brahma hen having laid 313 eggs in one year. 

 I am certain that the average Indian Runner duck will come 

 nearer her "Wonder" average than will any breed of hens to the 

 "wonder" record for hens. I know of one published record for 

 an American hen, higher than the 320-egg duck record; but it 

 was not a sworn record, as far as I know. 



From the far west, a man of convictions writes : "Throw- 

 ing out the penciled type is an injustice to all its breeders as well 

 as to the true breed; it is tearing down what we have been 

 building up for years. Our own ducks have won over all kinds 

 of so-called Indian Runners, scoring to ninety-six and a half and 

 ninety-six and three-fourths at state shows. We have been 

 breeding this English type for eight years, and find no fault in 

 them, while the fawn and white proved worthless under the 

 same conditions. Why should the Revision Committee wipe 

 either the English type or the American type off the face of the 

 American soil?" Please note that this letter was neither written 

 for publication, nor for advertising, but is the outspoken expres- 

 sion of a man's belief, which he supports by his practice. After 

 the 1910 revision, the whole prestige of the fancy was brought 

 to bear against the penciled ducks, until no visitor at a show 

 would cast a glance at them. It was only the belief of their 

 breeders that they were decidedly superior to the American 

 Standard type in actual intrinsic value that kept the breeders of 

 the English type from throwing up the game. A few dollars 

 and a year's work might easily place any one of them on the 

 popular side, at half the cost in wear and tear of holding to the 

 English type. Yet they did hold to it, tenaciously. 



The matter of color is still a bone of contention. But, the 

 English duck was described as "fawn" in color long before there 

 were any American Standard birds of the present color in ex- 

 istence. The matter of the name belonging especially to the 



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