OF STANDARD FOWLS 
harmony in perfect alignment of nature’s law that 
“like begets like.’? With the progressive and 
true fancier, to know is to obey. To start right, 
I must reiterate, is nearly as important as keeping 
right. The first thought in starting must be to 
choose birds which embody to a high degree 
stamina, type, color and markings according to 
kind and standard. Then in-breed and line-breed, 
obeying the minor laws and select each year for 
breeding only those stamina carrying the most 
apparent characteristics of kind. Nature has 
placed these characteristics plainly where all may 
read and learn. Strictly observe and obey these 
minor laws and the puzzle of mating and breeding 
will be solved and one can do nothing less than 
produce a majority of high class show birds with 
something back of them to continue in the right 
path. 
It is a law of single lacing that the female 
shall be laced in every section and in harmony 
with the markings of the female the male must 
also be laced in every section. Although the long 
feathers of saddle and hackle of males in most 
laced breeds have a tendency toward a rayed ap- 
pearance, yet it really is a lacing when shape of 
feather is considered. This harmony in the lac- 
ings of male and female can be seen in all its 
perfection in the Sebright bantams. All varieties 
or breeds bearing single lacings are subject to the 
same immutable laws whether major, minor or 
sub-laws. 
In choosing breeding birds, and, by the way, 
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