of course, thoroughly tested in this country. But when she is a 

 sport, I know no reason why she should not be equal in all re- 

 spects to her fawn progenitors. 



As to beauty and charm, a customer recently wrote me, after 

 several months' experience with the White Runners: "I do 

 not think there is anything else in birds that can be so enchant- 

 ing as the White Runner." 



At the present time, the older variety has been so widely 

 advertised, has made small fortunes for so many, and has so 

 caught the public fancy through its style, that it has the greater 

 call, by far. But, inasmuch as the white bird has ever been 

 the favored one in American eyes, and inasmuch as it has 

 greater charm with perhaps equal utility qualities, I look for 

 the White Runner to sweep the decks as soon as there are enough 

 of them to fill the demand. That its breeders are increasing 

 very rapidly, the advertising pages of the poultry prints, and 

 the tremendous entry at the last big Atlanta show, prove very 

 conclusively. 



The White Runner, having, when descended from sports 

 from English Penciled, all the effort toward high breeding of 

 many years behind her in her ancestry, has the possibility of im- 

 proving with great rapidity. I do not hesitate to say that one 

 who starts with Indian Runners will do infinitely better to get 

 one good pair rather than six pairs of average birds, even though 

 the pair cost as much as the other six pairs. Probably this is 

 true of all fancy fowls. I know it to be true of the White 

 Runner. 



Mr. Scott, who claims the high egg record of the world, 

 makes the public statement that he considers the loss of 24 duck- 

 lings out of 35 in his first season with his present line of birds 

 as the best thing that could have happened to him, since the 

 few left included the famous heavy layer, so that most of his 

 stock came from her. To get all one's stock, from the beginning, 



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