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cock, hen and youngster — is the best all-around White King. 

 At this time forget that you own the birds. Judge them as 

 they will be judged by the man who hangs the ribbons at 

 the show. 



Discard all birds with pinched breast, narrow body or those 

 showing a "knock-kneed" tendency; all that have a long body 



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or long tail or long head and beak; those specimens in which 

 the eye cere (bare flesh around the eye that separates it from 

 the feathers of the head) is white or pale pink color, and all 

 birds with feathers or down on legs or feet. 



The full-breasted, blocky, wide backed, broad-tailed White 

 King is the ideal to earnestly strive for, not only in exhibition 

 birds, but for utility specimens as well. The latter will produce 

 plump, attractive squabs more rapidly and more economically 

 than long-bodied, long-tailed White Kings. Bear in mind that 



