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tied, uneven shades in their progeny. Harmony in color 

 and no contrast should be kept constantly in mind. 



After the surface color is decided upon then the head 

 and tail points should be considered next. A "bottle green 

 black tail" is Standard. Purple tailed cockerels should be 

 discarded unless the bird is exceptionally good otherwise or 

 if the females have tails that are strong in black coloring. 

 A low rose comb and red eyes are desirable, but if the females 

 already telected have these some of the progeny will also 

 have them. Many breeders overlook the high rose combs 

 of their females and get a sponge-headed bunch of males in 

 the fall. A number of prominent Red breeders wish to have 

 the rose combs lower. A coarse head ruins the appearance 

 of an otherwise beautiful bird. Slight smut in under-color 

 in male is to be condoned more than white in the hackle, as 

 the former will moult out while the white will increase. 



Breeders should not be discouraged if they cannot find 

 birds that possess all the Standard requirements. The striv- 

 ing to obtain these birds furnishes the pleasure in breeding. 

 I think anyone can establish a strain of his own by breeding 

 from his best stay-red hens year after year, selecting the 

 most nearly perfect specimens each year. A more uniform 

 flock results than by mixing several strains together. By 

 careful selection one can establish a blood line of his own in 

 five or six years. What is back of a bird counts. A short 

 cut to exhibition stock is to get blood lines from yards that 

 you can visit or from breeders that you know have the birds. 



I am positive that long back females will give their 

 progeny, both males and females, long backs. I cannot see 

 anything mysterious or secretive about mating. Breeders 

 and raisers of all animals and plants produce by selection, 

 taking what comes nearest Standard or their ideal. 



I have taken females having good wing and tail mark- 

 ings, but with a little smut in under-color and on shoulders 

 and mated them with a trifle lighter colored male that had 

 a pedigree back of him and got some of the best females I 

 ever produced. The males were not good, however. 



I have heard experienced breeders say certain males 

 were great pullet breeders only, or vice versa, and I think 

 this may be so in some cases; but I have had a male throw 

 fine pullets one year and both fine pullets and fine cockerels 

 the next year, when mated differently. 



If I wanted a certain point, say wing markings in fe- 

 males, I would select females with wing markings, even if 

 defective otherwise, and would feel sure of getting a few 

 females with wing markings that were also nearly perfect 

 otherwise, being a blend of the two sexes. 



Keep the fowls happy, always eating, and if they get 

 tired of one feed or combination get them something different. 

 My best exhibition females are my best layers. If they are 

 not thrifty, their feathers lose their lustre. A real Red, 

 which is red, is one of the most beautiful as well as profitable 

 fowls in existence and when blood lines are once established 

 a flock will produce as large a percentage of show stock as 



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