OF STANDARD FOWLS 
fancier, because devoid of technical terms and en- 
tangling ideas and premises, so confusing and ob- 
scure to the common man. 
Be it far from me to decry the value of Mendel- 
ism or any deep scientific delving into the mys- 
teries of life by men who devote their lives to an 
earnest, honest search after the truth. I simply 
state a fact when I say that these higher sciences 
are as an unknown language of high sounding 
words which convey no meaning to the average 
breeder. It is also a fact that the majority of 
successful breeders the world over are those who 
have built and bred on the safe ground of common 
-gense reasoning as applied to animal breeding; a 
sort of a science which produces, protects and pre- 
serves by its very simplicity. To bring this 
thought of judicious inbreeding out more in detail 
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