This green egg matter needs but a little attention to be seen 

 with perfect clearness. Before the new type was found, the 

 green-egg specimens available were the poorest in fact and the 

 poorest breeders. For this, the English fanciers discarded them. 

 The new blood, on the contrary when it came, showed the very 

 best specimens in the green-egg type ; though both were far ahead 

 of any previously known. As there is no craze against the green 

 egg, as such, in England, fanciers used the best type as a matter 

 of course. They began, however, to dilute the green-egg blood with 

 the White-egg Cumberland blood, expecting at the right stage of 

 dilution, to gain a pure white-egg strain with the fine type of the 

 new birds. They have not yet reached this ideal, but are sending 

 birds here with several generations of white-egg mothers behind 

 them, and themselves layers of white eggs. 



Some people have frantically rushed into print and used un- 

 counted pages to express their disgust with Mr. Walton for com- 

 bining the two lines of blood. They profess not to understand 

 why he should have done this, and their good sense does not go 

 far enough to tell them that the great body of original White-egg 

 Cumberland or English Penciled Runners is still as pure as ever, 

 and that the union of blood is only a little side experiment which 

 has no effect at all on the main body of White egg Cumberland 

 Penciled Runners. This stock is just as fully available to all 

 the world as it ever was. As a matter of fact, it would necessi- 

 tate only one first-class bird to furnish all the dilution needed. 

 Why should any body think to fool the American public into be- 

 lieving that the originals have been injured? 



Does every reader of these lines know that the powerful 

 American Poultry Association, with its thousands of members, 

 the one great authority on breeds in the country, stands firmly 

 for the idea that in laying breeds, the most typical birds are "the 

 most useful" — that is, the best layers? Think this over! 



Think it over again, and assimilate the idea. If it be true 



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