MAKING A START 
course, when you are raising young ones, 
you will have a greater number than that, 
counting old and young together, but~as 
the young ones grow larger the number 
should be reduced, so that by the time 
they are grown you will have about the 
original number again. 
You can breed your little flock of birds 
into a great laying strain if you so desire; 
or you can breed them into a great show- 
room strain; or if you have the ability of 
a great fancier, perhaps you will be able 
to breed them into great prize-winners 
that will be capable of carrying off the 
blue ribbon in the great poultry shows of 
the country and at the same time make 
great layers of them also. Anyhow, if 
you love the birds and love to study 
nature, you will get a great deal of pleas- 
ure out of trying. 
You can divide this flock into families 
the same as you could a larger flock and 
have a superfamily to which you can give 
new blood from the other most distantly 
related families of your flock whenever 
they need it. You can have six families 
of two females each, and one male will do 
for all six families. You will not need to 
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