MAKING A START 
is looking for fine feather and egg pro- 
duction combined, he is very liable to be 
disappointed in one direction or the other. 
Perhaps it would not be out of place 
to relate here the experience of a man 
who desired to get an egg-laying strain of 
single-comb White Leghorns. He watched 
the national and international egg-laying 
contests, and when the premiums were 
awarded he ordered eggs from two differ- 
ent men who owned the premium winners. 
The eggs that one of the men sent out 
for single-comb White Leghorns hatched 
out chickens some of which had black 
spots. Those with black spots on were 
discarded and the white ones retained to 
breed from, with the hope that their off- 
spring would all be white, but a good per 
cent. of them turned out to be spotted; 
all of which seemed to me to be very 
good evidence that the prize-winner had 
been breeding his birds for egg produc- 
tion alone, because, perhaps, he found it 
beyond his ability to breed according to 
the ‘‘Standard of Perfection’? and for 
ege production at the same time. 
I mention this incident here to put the 
beginner on his guard. There is nothing 
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