OF STANDARD FOWLS 
laws of in and line breeding as shown on chart on 
page 15, that I feel capable of taking any fowl, 
dog, cat or any other short lived animal of any 
color or markings and producing in ten years, one 
hundred of similar markings and characteristics. 
Note that the heart, nature’s great pump, has ex- 
actly the same method in sending the blood to the 
tiny toes of the humming bird as it has in sending 
the blood to the trunk of the mammoth elephant. 
Just as exactly is all animal life governed to the 
same results by in and line breeding properly ap- 
plied. 
Perseverance and patience are the handmaidens 
of the successful breeder. Jumping at conclusions 
and impatient desire for quick results work the 
ruin of the average fancier. He does not differ- 
entiate between the perplexities attendant on the 
mingling of bloods and clear results of nature’s 
pure breeds. That very impurity which produces 
such a variety of culls and mediocre stock con- 
founds, by the unexpected production of a high 
class world beater, either male or female, there- 
fore the average breeder jumps to the conclusion 
that double mating is the thing. He does not 
realize that this phenomenon goes no farther than 
the male or female that produced it, unless years 
of in and line breeding are practiced with this 
same phenomenon as the foundation. This last 
the average breeder has not the patience to do and 
failure is the result so far as the reproduction of 
kind is concerned. 
Without the perplexities and puzzles no skill 
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