to raise them. People need not fear to invest in this stock here^ 

 because our breeders, so far as I know, send out only the white 

 eggs. This means that the 1913 stock will all have had white- 

 egg mothers, making one more dilution, or, at least, selection. If 

 the few that lay green eggs among these be again thrown out, we 

 ought to be quite near a real white-egg strain, by that time. At 

 all events, this would make at least four generations from the 

 green admixture; while American Standard breeders have vir- 

 tually advertised that it took them but two or three generations to 

 select out strains which gave "every egg strictly pure white" — 

 and "snow-white" at that! A strange fact is that these very 

 American Standard Runner breeders make the loudest outcry 

 against the Cumberland-Fairy-Fawn stock, on account of a few 

 green eggs, some of them claiming that it can never be selected to- 

 white eggs! In using this argument, they condemn themselves 

 more strongly than any one else could, as it is really scarcely 

 more than a year since they began to claim a white-egg strain 

 generally. One who is in some ways the most prominent of all 

 is reported to have sold ducks quite recently giving 100% of 

 green eggs, (while claiming a strictly white-egg strain) and re- 

 fusing to make good to the customer who complained. This in- 

 formation was sent me in March, 1913. This much is certain: 

 // the American Standard breeders could select to a white-egff 

 strain, the Cumberland-Fairy Fawn breeders can do the same. 

 That is all that needs to be said, except that this work is largely 

 done already. 



As to the exact place of origin of these ducks, I doubt if any 

 one knows except Mr. J. W. Walton and one or two co-workers. 

 Mr. Walton, with whom I have long been in correspondence, has 

 never stated that they came from India directly, so far as I know. 

 He has said that he had "new blood direct from the native Indian 

 source" and people have translated this as variously as their own 

 interests demanded. "Indian Root Type," is one of Mr. Walton's 



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