CHAPTER V 



The Selection of the Breed — The Strain is of 

 Utmost Importance 



To a man engaging in any branch of Poultry Cul- 

 ture the selection of the proper breed is of grave im- 

 portance, but to the man who is planning an Egg 

 Farm it is without doubt of graver importance than 

 where any other branch of the poultry business, is to 

 be carried on. 



For many years different localities have believed 

 that there was very decided merit in the different 

 colored egg shells. The Culture of Boston was cer- 

 tain that the dark shell contained an egg with a richer 

 flavor, while New York and vicinity would believe in 

 nothing but the white shelled egg. It is, however, 

 noted with interest that the Culture of Boston has 

 discovered that the color of the shell really has noth- 

 ing to do with the flavor of the egg, and to-day the 

 rigid adherence to a premium paid for the dark shelled 

 egg, generally throughout the New England States, 

 is rapidly passing into history. 



As The Corning Egg Farm was located within a 

 few miles of New York City the breeds which laid 

 the white shelled egg were the only ones worthy of 

 consideration, and, in the study of the question, it was 



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