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LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING — SECOND SERIES. 



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Felch Breeding Chart, 



Or it may be that in group 3 we have dlscovereil a type we admire abovc^ that of the original 

 ■pair. If so, such should be our standard, and in subsequent matings we should talie care to 

 eelect only birds of that type, until all our matings result in that uniform type, size, and color. 



To make the chart clear we say that each dotted line represents the female as having been 

 selected from the upper group to which it leads, while the solid line shows the male as having 

 lieen taken from the upper group indicated. Each circle represents the progeny of a male from 

 the upper group to which the solid line from it leads, mated with a female from the upper 

 group to which the dotted line from it leads. 



Female No. 1 mated with male No. 2 produced group No. 3, which is one-half the blood of 

 sire and dam. 



Females from group No. 3, mated back to their own sire No. 2, have produced group No. 5, 

 which is I of the blood of the sire, No. 2, and i the blood of the dam, No. 1. 



A male from group No. 3, mated back to hia own dam. No. 1, produces group No. 4, which 

 is I of the blood of the dam. No. 1, and \ the blood of the sire, No. 2. 



Again we select a cockerel from group No. 5 and a pullet from group i, or vice-versa, which 

 ■will produce group 7, which is mathematically half the blood of each of the original pair, No. 1 

 and No. 2. This Is a second step towards producing a new strain. 



