SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
more annoying than to be disappointed 
in the breeding stock that has been bought 
for the foundation of the future flock; 
therefore the beginner can not be too 
careful of whom he buys. 
This man who bought the single-comb 
White Leghorns, because they won first 
and second premiums in the national and 
international egg-laying contests, did so 
with the intention of getting a start of the 
two best egg-laying strains of single-comb 
White Leghorns, with the intention of 
crossing the two strains and continue 
breeding them for egg production; but 
when he found that one of the strains 
persisted in breeding partly black, he dis- 
carded them altogether and bred the other 
strain alone. While this man did not 
expect to get show-birds from these two 
breeders of egg-laying strains of single- 
comb White Leghorns, he did expect to 
get single-ccomb White Leghorns that 
would breed all white. 
There are plenty of good breeders who 
will tell the whole truth about their stock, 
and if the buyer will make known his 
wants they will tell him whether or not 
their stock will fill the bill. To the begin- 
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