124 LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING — SECOND SERIES. 



It (Ipppnila on selecting for each demand to which one caters such fowls as will best meet that 

 denimiii nml would not meet a better paying demand. Not all good qualities can be combined 

 in pqnnl degree in the same fowl, but by proper selection of lireeding stoclj year by year a 

 btPfilpr can have stock in which he combines with good market and laying qualities the possl- 

 tillity of great excellence from a fancier's standpoint. If he does this he has always three 

 •classes of prospeclive customers— fanciers, farmers, and poultrymen who wish fowls which 

 they are not ashamed to have those who know good fowls see, which will at the same time give 

 a good account of themselves at the nests and on the table. All these can be supplied from the 

 same flock, if the needs of the two extreme classes are always jointly considered in breeding. 

 If eilbcr is neglected the stock is quickly brought to the point where only one class can be satis- 

 factorily supplied. No matter which class this is the possibilities of Immediate profit, and 

 what is more important, the opportunity to extend cue's Imainess are greatly curtailed. 



Breeders should di«iiiii;uish between essential and non-e»sctiilal points, work for every point 

 essential to any profilatjle demand, and despise no non-essential because it is immaterial to 

 tbem personally. 



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