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LAWS 
GOVERNING THE BREEDING 
OF STANDARD FOWLS 
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O, what men dare do! What men 
may do! What men daily do, not know- 
ing what they do! 
—From “‘Much Ado About Nothing.”’ 
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CHAPTER I 
V7 ree NOWLEDGE is power. While there 
| VO many things still unsolved and 
rc A many perhaps unsolvable, the greatest 
Z===<~/ knowledge of all is to recognize the 
fact of the inevitableness, the immutability, the 
irrevocableness of certain laws which govern 
every phase of nature as regards a reproduction 
of kind. 
Right at the beginning I wish to state that 
this book contains no theories nor conjectures, 
but simple facts regarding these certain laws, 
which I have learned, observed and proved in 
forty years of breeding fancy poultry. I want 
my readers to notice in particular how applic- 
able is the thought that twice two is four iri any 
language; to notice how the many seeming in- 
tricacies and unsolvable puzzles of fancy poultry 
breeding will resolve themselves into plain simple 
So 
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