^5% of green eggs, which is as high as the new Cumberland-Fairy 

 Fawns of the diluted blood have ever laid under my care. Since 

 the American Standard blood is thus proved even now no better 

 than the "Cumberland-Fairy Fawn," in this respect, the hue and 

 cry about the green tgg blood of the latter, is plainly shown to be 

 for effect. Breeders of this new stock have plainly told custo- 

 mers what to expect, and others have not; that is the real vital 

 difference. A breeder of Penciled stock writes, as late as May 31, 

 1913: "One correspondent says he gets three-fourths (75%!) 

 green eggs, from his American Standard birds." Far more than 

 the Cumberland-Fairy Fawns have ever given here. 



Another letter received the same month of 1913 tells a hard 

 luck story: "I have been breeding American Standard Runners 

 for the past three years. I now have 34 show birds, some that car- 

 ried away the blue at our state shows the past season. As far as 

 color, I believe there are none in Ala., that can beat me; yet they 

 do not lay the pure white egg exclusively, nor lay as persistently 

 as some I have heard of. I have eagerly obtained and read all 

 the literature I could find regarding them, but until I received 

 your book from the — Poultry Journal I had found nothing and 

 no one who seemed to know what the trouble was or even gave 

 any details regarding them. I feel very much indebted to you, as 

 I have no desire to mislead the public nor take no pride in produc- 

 ing that which is inferior to the best. My ducks are beauties as 

 far as color, and they also have long slim necks and good head 

 points, but they lack carriage and even the gait I have looked for 

 in running ; yet by being given first and by comparison I could see 

 I had good ones as per the American Standard. I personally 

 know six breeders who have discarded them (American) because 

 they would not lay as they expected, neither would they lay white 

 eggs and they had trouble in selling them for market purposes. 

 The Runner has been given a black eye around here ; for all the ex- 

 breeders don't fail to knock them. But I believe that if the righ'. 



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