MAKING A START 
branches of the poultry business, but the 
ordinary poultryman can not do so. 
I believe that all poultry breeding 
should be for the purpose of bringing 
about as great egg and meat production 
and efficiency as possible, and produce at 
the same time as beautiful birds as it is 
possible to produce without interfering 
with their efficiency as meat and egg pro- 
ducers. 
We must have as much beauty as possi- 
ble in all things, for the world would be a 
dreary place to live in without beauty; 
and I believe that beauty and efficiency 
can go mutually along hand in hand in 
the poultry business, for the most beauti- 
ful hen I ever saw was a laying type of 
one of the egg-laying breeds. 
No, no, let us not rob the earth of any 
of its beauty, for efficiency’s sake, so long 
as efficiency has not become necessary to 
our existence. 
When selecting male birds to head our 
breeding-pens, whether from our own 
flocks or from the flocks of some other 
breeder, it is well to select those that are 
very active and very attentive to their 
mates. They should be brave and good 
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