OF STANDARD FOWLS 
CHAPTER VI 
The Breeders and Fanciers 
e20) HE laws of breeding standard fowls 
).\ZERS® contained in this book are written 
ae especially for the beginner, not for the 
OWA old soldier who has fought these things 
out on the same battle ground as ‘“‘yours truly.”’ 
The term beginner covers two classes. Contrary 
to accepted rules of speech, poultry culture has 
“new beginners’’ and ‘‘old beginners.’’ The ‘“‘new 
beginner’’ or novice is indeed quite new and is 
very susceptible, without discrimination, to every 
bit of advice and counsel offered; yet withal one 
who progresses with astonishing speed until hoist- 
ed on the petard of his own conceit. This same 
conceit is a peculiar trait of the ‘“‘new beginner,”’ 
a conceit which keeps his head high in the clouds 
of his new found knowledge, hiding from his vis- 
ion the stumbling blocks which bring him again 
to earth and common sense. ‘This conceit is at- 
tributable to the fact that the novice is generally 
very successful the first year; the second year 
finds him wiser than he can ever afterwards hope 
to be. After the novice passes this teething stage 
he becomes a breeder worth while and ranks with 
the philosophers who believe in the progress of 
the future. 
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