CRITICISMS. 



But one criticism has been made as yet through the Pigeon 

 Press. One of the Nestors or the Nestor of the Pigeon Pancy 

 thinks that my article teaches the young fancier that with 

 poor birds he can start a strain. He can, and in time breed 

 good birds and prize winners. Yet is any fancier so foolish 

 as to start with poor birds when with an extra outlay of money 

 he can get the best and advance much farther in the value 

 of the birds which he himself breeds in the same time in which 

 he is breeding up his. poor birds, advancing the quality of those 

 already bred? Many a fancier visiting our large shows thinking 

 as he came in the door that he has the best ever, goes away 

 with the resolve that his birds get the axe when he gets 

 home and that he immediately acquire birds of this or that 

 strain. 



Use the best that you can get, but do not be discouraged 

 if you cannot own the best that there are. 



Skill and line breeding will inevitably put you on top, if 

 you breed according to the standard and not to your own ideas. 



What the Press Says. 



This month we are offering our readers the first installment 

 of Mr. E. R. B. Chapman's great article on "Line Breeding." 

 This will appear in two installments and the breeder who does 

 not read it will miss one of the greatest articles that ever 

 appeared in the Pigeon Press. Mr. Chapman is an old breeder 

 and has bred birds along the lines laid down in his article for 

 many years with success. In offering this to our readers we 

 feel confident that we will be doing the fancy of this country 

 more real good than has any one thing which has appeared 

 in recent years. The article alone is worth, to the beginner 

 or veteran fancier, many times the price of a year's subscrip- 

 tion. Pigeons feels that it has been very fortunate In securing 

 it for its readers. 



The charts which accompany the final installment of Mr. 

 Chapman's great article on Pedigree Breeding represent months 

 of hard study and should not be put aside until thoroughly 

 studied and the meaning of every mating understood. This is 

 the first article of this kind that has ever been given to the 

 pigeon breeder through the pigeon press and if it is carefully 

 studied and carried out it will make a wonderful difference 

 in the quality of birds turned out by fanciers in this country. 



