SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
able birds and put them in pens by them- 
selves, and trap-nest them and keep a 
record of the results. Males produced 
by the best layers of these pens can be 
used to improve the range flock. Hens in 
these pens should have numbered leg- 
bands on so that there will be no mistake 
in keeping the record. 
This method of selecting the very 
cream of the whole flock to be trap-nested 
improves the flock in many other ways 
besides egg production; for their good 
qualities are considered before their egg- 
laying qualities have been tested, so that 
there is no danger of being tempted to 
keep for breeding purposes a bird of high 
egg-laying qualities that is lacking in 
other good qualities. Where birds lacking 
in ‘‘Standard’’ requirements are trap- 
nested there is very apt to be a temptation 
to keep for breeding purposes some birds 
of high egg-producing qualities that are 
very deficient in ‘‘Standard’’ require- 
ments. This leads to a deterioration of 
the ‘‘Standard’’ qualities, which is very 
undesirable. The new revised ‘‘ American 
Standard of Perfection’’ should be in the 
hands of every poultryman, and then he 
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