BREEDING LINE OF SIRES. 15 



Pen No. 4 — sire, Adam Wall, No. 3, by Honest Abe,No. 2,out of Lady WajabicKton, No. 1; 

 daiu, Lady Washington, No. 1 — produces group No, 4, three-fourths blood of Lady Washing- 

 ton, No. 1. 



fen No. 5 — sire, Walsingham, No. 4, by Adam Wall, No. 3, out of Lady Washington, No. 1; 

 dam, Lady Washington, No. 1, — produces group No. 6, seven-eighths blood of Lady WaKh- 

 iiigloii,No. 1. 



I'en No. 6— sire. Advocate, No. 6, by Honest Abe,No. 2, out of Julia, No. 3, by Honest Abe, 

 No. 2, out of Lady Washington, No. 1 ; dams, Lady Wiley, No. 4, and sisters, by Adam Wall, 

 No. 3; 2d dam, Lady Washington, No. 1; produces group No. 7, one-half the blood of each 

 strain. 



Fen No. 7 — siie, Aaron Burr, No. 8, by Honest- Abe, No. 1, out of Anna, No. 5; dams, 

 Lady Weeiss, No. 6, and sisters, by Walsingham, No. 4; 2il dam. Lady Washington, No. 1, 

 produces group No. 11, one-half the blood of each strain. 



Thus do I name pedigree and mate up to and including the fourth generation, leaving the 

 reader to mate the remainder of the chart. 



Up to this point it is line bred both individually and as to the strains, and so is it line bred on 

 the Honest Abe strain both as individuals to the end of groups 17 and 18. 



But we now break the female line by producing a male of her line as her heir, and mating 

 him, Warwick, No. 6, to Liidy Wiley,No. 4, to produce Waldermier, No. 9, and his si^te^s, 

 Winfred Lasses, continuintr the male line by mating Waldermier, No. 9, to Kate, No. 11, thns 

 producing Gen. Walker, No. 14, and his sisters as seen in group 14. In all this we have pre- 

 served the preponderance of the blood of Lady Washington strain. 



Now the whole strength of this line of breeding stands on the breeder being able to produce 

 a group of half-bloods from within his own flocks. 



To make the strain line of breeding more plain: — Suppose we follow the rule many do of 

 buying a foreign pullet to produce a group of hiilf-bloods, and her set of pullets are bred back 

 to the sire, or a male of his strain, these three- fourths blood pullets again bred liack to a male of 

 the sire's strain. This would be breeding in line to one strain, which is just half the force of 

 our chart. These three males being diflrnrent males of one strain, this would be only sfrajn 

 breeding , not line breeding with an unbroken line of sires. If our selections are carefully 

 made, ever keeping in mind the types we start with, or the cherished types of our strain, then 

 this breeding in line to one's strain may prove as forceful in results as adhering to a line of 

 sires — from sire to son. 



