Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 THE EGG INDUSTRY ceived little consideration by poultrymen. The time is close upon us when the list of winners at poultry shows will be entirely made up from the list of pedigree breeders. Mr. Brigham says: 'The aim in poultry breeding is to produce and perpetuate the best birds, i. e., such as, in their form and other characteristics, answer the purpose of th
Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 THE EGG INDUSTRY ceived little consideration by poultrymen. The time is close upon us when the list of winners at poultry shows will be entirely made up from the list of pedigree breeders. Mr. Brigham says: 'The aim in poultry breeding is to produce and perpetuate the best birds, i. e., such as, in their form and other characteristics, answer the purpose of the breeder. The- object of the art as usually practiced is to produce the largest quantity of the best quality of certain animal products with the least waste and largest net profit. 'The scope of stock breeding is almost unlimited, and gives ample room for the largest and best, the deepest and highest study and practice of agriculturists. 'When we consider that the excellent improved breeds of poultry of the present day all originated from wild and slightly esteemed progenitors in the past, we gain some idea of the amplitude of opportunities which are open to the intel- ligent breeder in the present condition of poultry culture, 'Success in stock-breed- ing depends upon the cer- tainty that the progeny will at the time of procreation, inherit the general or min- gled qualities of the parents. Color and outward shape, and the characteristics and tendencies of the internal organs and structure are thus transmitted. Heredity extends even to the trans- mission of longevity, fecun- dity, disposition and habits. * * * 'Prepotency is increased by carefully breeding to- gether animals of like in- clination, and the longer this process is continued the more certainly is the pecu- liarity transmitted. Prepo- tency in a given respect may thus come to be a quality of a flock, of a family and of a breed. 'The principle of prepo- tency is of special value to the poultry breeder, in that it e
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