A Group of Prospective Prize Winners. 



do not win the first year or the second and the third year perhaps 

 they just reach the ribbons. Not content to live and learn for 

 the "know how" comes to a man only through actual experi- 

 ence, they buy their prize winners or quit the job as too slow 

 for them. 



Now what is pedigree breeding? There is a law of nature, 

 or rather two laws, which are as follows: "Like produces like," 

 and the "Survival of the fittest." Upon these fundamental prin- 

 ciples all breeding must be done. 



To start a strain, select your breed. If you start with one 

 pair, see that the hen is as near the desired shape or type as 

 it is possible to get. Rely upon your cocks for color and 

 feather, of course the nearer to perfection in type he can be got 

 the better. The birds should not be related, and if you have room 

 for two or three pairs of birds to start so much the better. 



Breed your first years youngsters. Kill every undesirable 

 bird, don't spare one, then select the young hen nearest your 

 ideal and mate her back to the old cock. Do the same with the 

 best young cock and the old hen. This is line breeding. 



Do not mate inter se, nest mates, unless absolutely forced 

 to do so. Your youngsters will die in the shell, at least a large 

 proportion will, and almost every point that you are striving 

 to get rid of will crop out, and if your older birds have anywhere 



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