HKOORl) KKKl'IXd ., I 



result slioukl be Hie wimp in the square at the bottom of the monthly 

 totals. 



I prefer to keep these blanks in the house because I ean collect the 

 eggs faster when I roughly record them on slips of common paper hung 

 in the pens, and because the printed sheets can be kept clean in the 

 house. Neglect will make this work very laborious; regularity and 

 interest will make it easy and a pleasure. 



Those who wish to adopt a complete pedigree system should cor- 

 respond with Beecher & Beecher, Belleville, Kansas who have a full 

 page ad. in the back part of this book. They have very skillfully 

 adapted the famous card-index system to the poultry breeder's use. I 

 have just received one of their complete outfits and And it to be just 

 what they claim. 



When pedigree records are kept the breeder keeps track of the eggs 

 of each female until the chicks are hatched when the chicks are toe- 

 punched. Many of the poultry papers handle these punches. H. A. 

 Kuhns, Atlanta, Ga. also handles a line one. The following different 

 marks can be punched in the web between the toes of young chicks, or 

 adult fowls, and causes no pain or injury. 



A J A , A * A , A ' A -, A * A , A J A A A. 

 A 7 A . A 8 A . A ? A , A"A, A " A . A " A . 



A" A. A-'VlX, A"A , 



The eggs of each hen can be kept separate under sitting hens or by 

 using a pedigree tray in the incubator. In the latter case the pedigree 

 tray is not put in until the last time the eggs are turned on the 18th 

 day. These travs keep each lot of eggs separate and also the chicks 

 after they come out. 



The information obtained in this way is of the greatest value to the 

 breeder. Many of the persistent defects in our fancy breeds could soon 

 be bred out if the breeder would discover and reject the hens that are 

 responsible for them. It is the writer's belief that such faults as the 

 single comb in Wyandotte* and other rose-comb families, as well as 

 plumage defects and the like can begot rid of by pursuing this course. 



I found this year that one of my most remarkable layers, a very 

 homely bird with a bad comb, gave me some tine cockerels with five 

 point combs of good shape and texture. The sire also had a very ordi- 

 nary comb. These things are well known by expert breeders but they 

 are seriously handicapped under the ordinary system. 



