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tant shows offer premiums for them, and the entries are 

 seldom lacking at shows which I have attended. We 

 find the Pearl Guinea, the White Guinea, and even the 

 "any other color Guinea fowl" listed in the classes for 

 premiums (even by shows professing to be held under 

 American Poultry Association rules), under the same 

 conditions as obtain for the "regulars." New breeds 

 often have to run a gauntlet of injustice, in which a non- 

 recognized breed entered must compete in a class of 

 "any other variety of fowl." Here, it is pitted, not 

 against its own kind, but against all other non-recognized 

 breeds which may be entered. Manifestly this is no 

 real competition, but its value consists in getting the birds 

 into public view. The valuable white-egg, EngHsh bred 

 Runner Duck, and the lovely White Indian Runner, 

 have no other recognized place at the date of this writ- 

 ing. Still, despite the authority of the American Poul- 

 try Association, and its recognition of a green-egg 

 Runner, many important shows are deliberately making 

 classes for these other unrecognized varieties, because 

 of a knowledge of their superior value. Some Southern 

 show officials claiming entries of four or five hundred 

 Runners, for the 1911-1912 season, are following this 

 method. If these classes fill as expected, it will be a 

 marvelous triumph for the Indian Runner ducks, as 

 only such popular breeds as Rocks or Wyandottes have 

 been able to count on such numbers, even at the lead- 

 ing shows in the largest halls. 



The Guinea resembles the turkey more than it does 

 any other of the domesticated fowls, though it is smaller 

 and more stocky in build. Males are distinguished from 

 females chiefly by their cry, the plumage and other 



