LAWS GOVERNING THE BREEDING 
has been used in the production of many of our 
standard breeds is a well authenticated fact. The 
similarity of color laws in ginger red Pit Games 
and our newer red breeds shows the relationship 
and the foundation of their brilliant ruddy hues 
andI may go still farther and call attention to 
their hardiness, enduring qualities and prolificacy 
as derived from the same source. The power of 
proper selection and in and line breeding is clearly 
shown in the evolution of the red breeds as seen 
today, by man-made standards in which nature’s 
laws are seemingly ignored. All ancient breeds 
of red plumage, whether wild or domestic, have 
slate under-color, yet in one breed of red fowls 
(which one writer describes as a conglomeration 
of mixed up indifferences) the under-color in a vast 
majority has been purged of all slate color, yet re- 
taining black in wings and tail, at the same time 
toning the surface color into desirable evenness to 
correspond with under-color. Yet many times the 
purging has been too complete, in that wing flights 
and tail coverts show absence of the necessary 
black. Thus does nature tell the red breeder to 
retrace his steps. By the same process which 
produced the first can the second be accomplished; 
namely by in and line breeding with proper se- 
lection. On the other hand, by partly maintain- 
ing the slate in under-color, another breed of red 
fowls has been made to take on a characteristic 
red surface all its own; a hue which while appar- 
ently of the same color, when placed alongside the 
first mentioned presents an altogether different 
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