several respects, because he has too far ignored true type, in a 

 craze for a certain color. In doing this, as all know, he breaks, 

 like many other breeders, a fundamental rule of the law-giving 

 Association. But what of that? Is he not a fancier, and may he 

 not do as he fancies? 



Neither, for any cause, would I put a handsome bird out of 

 existence ; but I certainly would oppose her shoving aside the real 

 claimant to honors. I first took up this breed to test it for the 

 benefit of the thousands of readers of a great farm paper, whose 

 consulting expert on poultry I was for ten years. I found it 

 better than I expected, and I found many more people interested 

 than I had looked to see. It is because of these people, and many 

 others like them, who will in the future want to know as much as 

 possible about the Indian Runners, that I have ventured to try 

 to preserve the true history and to inform the public as to the ac- 

 tual value of these birds, in the best type. A Runner breeder 

 who first saw the new type, Cumberland-Fairy Fawn, in May, 

 1913, said 30 of them would be worth $3000 regardless of color of 

 eggs, and that a yardstick would touch all the way from the top 

 of skull to point of bills of every one of them! 



There is one specific point, viz., length — about the genuine 

 Runner, aside from the carriage, which up to 1910 was scarcely 

 referred to in periodicals in this country, although the Standard 

 does say that the birds shall be long and narrow. The long 

 birds are frequently downed at New York in favor of those show- 

 ing the light, even fawn, evenness of color seeming to have been 

 the chief item in a good Runner, from the American point of 

 view, in addition to good carriage. 



The English Standard just revised gave something definite 

 to go on, in stating what should be considered "fairly good 

 weights and lengths"; though it cautioned that these must not 

 count alone, but must be in connection with well balanced type. 

 It also recommended that judges see the birds on the run before 



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