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are to assume that, we must at the same time grant that poultry raising 

 presents no better industrial opportunities tor the individual than the 

 digging of ditches or the cutting of wood. 



Any literature, industrial or otherwise, that has any valid excuse for 

 existing, other than the mere getting of money, should present things 

 as they are without regard to what the ignorant or selfish reader imagines 

 or desires them to he. 



Not only are the low-grade poultry papers misleading and harmful to 

 what few "actual paid in advance subscribers'" they may have, but they 

 are of little use to the honest advertiser of worthy goods. Either a 

 trial with "keyed"' ads. or a careful study of their columns for a year or 

 two will prove this to be so. 



The contributor whose knowledge of the equities of life is inadequate 

 to dominate his or her crude notions of business or hens often finds 

 space available in some papers that evidently have little use for a waste 

 basket. 



The journal that works harder to get advertisers than subscribers is 

 of no particular use to either advertisers or subscribers. The only 

 mediums that can assist us to get knowledge, pleasure or profit from 

 anything are those that furnish a quality of reading matter that is worth 

 reading, even if they have to pay for it, and have a list of patrons that 

 read what they have paid to get. 



The comparisons of breeds whieh we meet are often productive of 

 much perplexity and misunderstanding. 



A has tried a few hens of several breeds and has decided what 



shall be "the best breed." 15 examines a few hens on his own 



account and gives expert evidence that he has found "the best breed." 



( ' is hunting' for "the best breed'" among several millions of hens, 



no two of which are alike, and as long as he believes that the excessive- 

 ly limited observations of A or B would shed the slightest 



ray of light upon the matter he is likely to keep on hunting to the end 

 of the chapter. 



All poultry-qualities are not included in the requirements of the 

 Standard of Perfection or discernible by the skilled eye of the judge. 



The practice of conflicting systems of breeding pure-blood fowls by 

 people with all kinds of ideas and standards of merit, and the distribu- 

 ..^,i. .i- rins blood all over the land indiscriminately, producing mixture 

 upon mixture without guide or reason, should show anyone that there 

 can be no uniformity of utility qualities in any breed, considered broad- 

 ly as a breed. 



A man's chances of establishing a family of exceptional layers ought 

 to be just as good, if not better, with the Asiatics or Americans as with 

 the Mediterraneans, if he goes about it in the right way. 



It is probable that there is more .Mediterranean blood in the country 

 than any other pure-blood, which would of itself be sufficient to account 

 for any popular theory of supremacy in laying qualities that may obtain, 

 even if no logical reason for (lie theory existed. 



Some breeds possess qualities as breeds that adapt them to conditions 

 that would not be as favorable to other breeds. The same appears to 

 be true of families or "strains" within breeds. 



The glowing tributes f<> Ibis, that , or the other br I of fowls that 



we commonly encounter are excessively general in character. "Thov 

 are splendid layers." How much of a layer must a. hen, be to be a 

 "splendid" layer? Tliirh-six eggs per spring-time-hatehing-seasoii, 



