■shape, are decided defects. Slate and dark red in drakes are not 

 favored. 



It should be perfectly plain to any normal mind that the 

 English type of Indian Runner, being so much older than any- 

 thing made in America, justly lays claim to the title of "The True 

 Indian Runner." Up to 1910, (so convinced w^ere many of our 

 judges, even, that the American Standard was not requiring the 

 true type) the English-bred birds were able to get, in some in- 

 stances, very good prizes, though not often the best. In Jan., 

 1910, such a male bird took second at Madison Square Garden. 



For months before the 1910 revision of the American Stand- 

 ard of Perfection, a sustained fight was made to educate the pub- 

 lic, and incidentally, the Revision Committee, up to a knowledge 

 of the real type of the genuine Indian Runners, and of the injury 

 the proposed discrediting of Penciled Runners would be to the 

 breeders of the English type, and to the breed. Perhaps a dozen 

 breeders took part in this, one being a poultry judge. But the 

 Standard had called for an entirely different type for so many 

 years, that the Revisers were simply afraid to give any recognition 

 to the breeders of the genuine Indian Runners. 



The extreme Standard weight in this country is four pounds 

 for females and four and one-half pounds for matured males. 

 I have seen English males weighing five and one-half pounds, but 

 this is not common. Five pounds is reasonably common. 



The preferred weights mentioned in the (present) English 

 Standard are three and one-half to four pounds for ducks, four 

 to five pounds for drakes. Head, bill, eyes and neck take nearly 

 one-third the points in the English Standard; body, shape and 

 carriage together comprise 45 points — nearly one-half the exhibi- 

 tion value — while color, markings and condition receive the other 

 25 points. That is, color, even with marking and condition added, 

 counts only one-fourth the show value. 



I have never noted in the ranks of the breeders of the orig- 



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