OF STANDARD FOWLS 
barred birds according to nature’s standard have 
a male in color lighter than the female, except in 
breeds where male is hen feathered. The Barred 
Rocks, around which the battles between double 
and single mating have raged the fiercest, have 
only vindicated nature’s demands, namely :—the 
cockerel mating of this breed demands darker col- 
ored dams than sires; the pullet mating calls for 
the light colored sire. The accurately barred sil- 
ver penciled Hamburg hen requires a mate of the 
extreme type of light color and both are produced 
and reproduced accurately according to standard 
from one mating. The hen feathered Campine is 
a replica of his mate and they reproduce accurate- 
ly their kind from one mating. No advocate of 
single mating in Barred Rocks has been able to 
produce and then again reproduce a sufficient 
number of both sexes alike in color and markings 
to warrant classing such a production as a dis- 
tinct breed; if Barred Rock males were hen-feath- 
ered the problem would be solved. 
In this fight to thwart nature, the direct oppo- 
sition to nature has been nature’s best defense. 
And paradoxical as it may seem the only way to 
successfully combat nature is to yield, obey, ac- 
quiesce;.learn her secrets and the vulnerable spots 
in her armor that she may do your bidding seem- 
ingly in opposition to first principles. This has 
been done and can be done again even with sucha 
breeding enigma as the Barred Rocks, by strict 
observation to in and line-breeding as laid down 
in Chapter I of this book and as per chart, which 
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