The Farm-poultry . uld beif we actually had it. But the cuts fromphotographs do not even follow the rule of theStandard, and give the specimen the benefitof the doubt. They are more likely to giveall the odds against it. To get the best photographs, one needs to bethe owner of a good camera, as well as masterof its use, and to be able to take his ownbirds just as he catches them, in beautifulor favorable positions. Those who giveinstructions as to preparing birds for exhibi-tion are always teaching that they should beaccustomed to posing in the coops, or at leastto standing naturally therein.
The Farm-poultry . uld beif we actually had it. But the cuts fromphotographs do not even follow the rule of theStandard, and give the specimen the benefitof the doubt. They are more likely to giveall the odds against it. To get the best photographs, one needs to bethe owner of a good camera, as well as masterof its use, and to be able to take his ownbirds just as he catches them, in beautifulor favorable positions. Those who giveinstructions as to preparing birds for exhibi-tion are always teaching that they should beaccustomed to posing in the coops, or at leastto standing naturally therein. But, to get anatural iiosition when a stranger is in theyards with his camera is virtually an impossi-bility. What a forlorn looking bird, you say, asyou scan the <ut from life of some birdsaid to have captiireil all the firsts and specialsin sight at some particular show. If Icouldnt get a better picture than tliat 1woukhrt have any. T wouldnt defame afairly decent bird liy showing such a pictureof her as A BUNCH DRIVEN INTO FOCUS. adver(i>c i > lotricled his opportunities to dis-pose of stock so much that h\a own productwas e(|ual to all demand*. This radicalchange of aflairs atlected a number of othersmore or less in the same way as it did theman of whom I write. It broke the con-nection between themselves ami the consumersof their goods. • « • • Some of them sought to establish othersimilar connections with persons having atrade in excess of their own produce; somebegan a little adveiti>iiig on their ownaicoiint; .some did a little in both thesedirections. This man disposed of stock andof one of the .several breeds he keepsthrough a breeder making ii specialty of thatbreed. He did not advertise because, as hesaid, he had seen so many speml money with-out getting ailequate returns for it. Had heargued the same way about profits in poultryhe would never have gone into the businessat all, for if there is one thing certain aboutthe poultry business, an
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