LAWS GOVERNING THE BREEDING 
hardly ever reproduced by the ordinary manner 
of breeding fowls; because the reason of its ap- 
pearance is not obvious; this explains why the 
breeding of such a bird generally produces a 
majority of culls. The use of the word phenomenon 
seems to be a tacit admission of ignorance, yet 
a word behind which that ignorance may hide. 
Knowledge produces a majority of specimens 
better than their kind; haphazard may produce 
and may not produce phenomena of obscure ori- 
gin; one is certainty, the other chance. 
In-breeding by judicious line-breeding is a 
peculiar anomaly in the law of nature, because 
there is an apparent transgression with an ab- 
solute abeyance; yet it is only the unnatural 
against the natural, purity warring with impur- 
ity, which demands laws to fit the case for a 
successful culmination. 
In the breeding of domestic animals to a high 
state of perfection according to prescribed stand- 
ards, inbreeding is the chief factor or law. (In- 
breeding means breeding from close relationship. ) 
Yet aceording to the natural laws in breeding 
domestic animals it tends to a certain deterior- 
ation; therefore the careful thinking breeder adds 
the word judicious to inbreeding which, defined 
in combination, means line breeding and when 
thoroughly understood means success. Judicious 
inbreeding has laws of its own and ‘‘obey’”’ is the 
open sesame. 
The first law of judicious inbreeding is stam- 
ina and vigor and is in perfect accordance with 
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