OF STANDARD FOWLS 
over. And now a few words of advice in conclusion. 
Compare points relative, spangled and laced, pen- 
ciled and stippled; breed and note particularly 
the entire lack of relationship and the peculiar 
and lasting harm incident to the mingling of these 
bloods. Spangled and laced breeds have one com- 
mon origin, yet each have sub laws which govern 
feather markings, but are entirely foreign to pen- 
ciled and stippled breeds. Penciled and stippled 
breeds show strong relative characteristics, but 
both are governed by their own sub-laws. 
Investigate the law of atavism and its relative 
bearing on your breeding operations; it will help 
weed out the culls and eventually bring a strain 
to a near pureness of blood, after blood lines are 
established. To produce a high-class strain of 
show birds that will uphold the law, the law that 
‘like begets like’? should be the aim of every 
breeder or fancier, rather than to produce occa- 
sionally, one phenomenally high class show bird 
by hit or miss, haphazard methods. One is the 
house built on a rock; the other a house built on 
shifting sands. 
One more last thought. No breed of fowls, 
however full of stamina and made so by selection, 
can so continue unless proper common sense 
methods are used in the feeding of breeding stock. 
The greatest factor is free range for breeding 
stock and growing chicks, which should be fed 
nothing but hard grains. Never use wet or dry 
mashes nor any condimentals nor meat feeds, even 
in confinement, to breeding stock or any food 
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