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person who allow- tli< -1 lo regulate hi.- judgment will never do the 



best, thing. The vie/lit way is the only way to aehieve the most perfect 

 results, "xhe breeder of birds or animals who is aiming for improvement 

 asks himself first: -what is the right way?" What it will eust to fol- 

 low the correct course is a secondary consideration, and should not. be 

 considered when we are seeking the right thing to do. When this first 

 principle becomes fixed in the mind, then the cost becomes au important 

 factor. If we cannot see our way clear to do what appears to be the best 

 thing we should take the next best or the nearest approach to it that 

 seems practicable. 



The highest possible success in the improvement of a family of fowls 

 would attend the efforts of the intelligent and wise breeder who would 

 practice single matiugs with single pairs, housed and maintained sepa- 

 rately. This would usually cost too much. The nearest approach to 

 this plan that is economically practicable is the one to pursue. 



THE FALLACY OF THE SO CALLED LAW OF SEX. 



"Upon what meat doth this our Ctesar feed that he hath grown so great ?" 



Briefly stated the so-called law of sex consists of a claim that, if a 

 certain method of procedure be followed, we can produce males or 

 females at will, either in reproducing ourselves or our animals and 

 birds. The author, or authors, of the so-called law have never known 

 of a case where the scheme worked; hence they are able to produce 

 nothing but apparent coincidences to support the assumption. This has 

 been a common expedient with the dreamer through all the ages. 



There are two reasons why we cannot accept this so-called "law of 

 sex." First: its basis is wholly untenable. Second: even if the 

 claimed conditions determined the matter, it would be impossible for 

 us to supply and maintain the conditions. 



Man is a wonderful creature, and, under the guidance of and aided 

 by a Higher Power, has wrought remarkable changes in the animal and 

 vegetable worlds. This gives finite man an exceedingly good opinion 

 of himself. The late Mr. Ingersoll had noted this so much that he was 

 led to pen that famous line: Man has created ({ml in his own image. 



Those of us who sincerely believe in an lnlinite lieing will, 1 believe. 

 see that, should man be able to control sex at will, he could overturn 

 the established order of things to such an extent as to completely extin- 

 guish a family or a race. Nature will never reveal to us any law that 

 would enable us to accomplish such a thing. 



Wind a graft the Chinese would have with such a law lying around 

 loose in their houses with Iheir notions regarding sex. Wife there 

 such a law they would claim it. as they claim priority in everything. 



While the primary influences that control the sex principle in the em- 

 bryo are not understood, it has been i|uite clearly shown that, up to a 



