OF STANDARD FOWLS 
falls and stumbling blocks in the road of progress 
to high class breeding of laced fowls. Weed out 
also the birds with ragged and uneven lacings; 
those carrying lacings with almost square ends, 
which have a resemblance to half spangle and 
half lacing. The true lacing is narrow and fol- 
lows perfectly the shape of feather from under- 
color to under-color in every section. 
A well laced male with smut in shoulders and 
saddle is a poor breeder, although generally these 
defects go with black breasts, poor lacings and de- 
ficient wing bar and are further indicatons of for- 
eign blood and broken laws. In spangled varie- 
ties the relationship to lacing is shown by the ten- 
dency for one to revert to the other and also shown 
by nature’s minor law which requires that male 
and female shall be spangled in every section 
alike, excepting, of course, the shape and nature 
of male hackle and saddle feathers, although there 
are spangle breeds wherein many henny feathered 
males are found which are exactly like the females 
in every section, just as the males of Sebright 
bantams among single laced breeds are exactly 
like the females in lacings in every section. This 
‘further proves the kinship of nature’s laws in 
lacings and spanglings. One further proof still, 
is that there has never yet been discovered a com- 
plete henny feathered male among penciled or 
stippled breeds, which same have no kin in mark- 
ings or feather characteristics with laced or 
spangled breeds. What has been said of single 
lacings relative to guides in choosing breeders, 
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