. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ith many, for abird of a brighter and more real golden move of popular taste is in the rightdirection ; for the laced Wyandotte being afowl whose beauty lies in symmetry of mark-ings and contrast of colour, the effect isdestroNed when the background is so dark andsombre that the lacings are rendered compara-tively undiscernible. Judging such birds isquite a task, comparable to assorting flowersby star-light. The brighter shade alluded todoes not, of course, include the cla\-coloured
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ith many, for abird of a brighter and more real golden move of popular taste is in the rightdirection ; for the laced Wyandotte being afowl whose beauty lies in symmetry of mark-ings and contrast of colour, the effect isdestroNed when the background is so dark andsombre that the lacings are rendered compara-tively undiscernible. Judging such birds isquite a task, comparable to assorting flowersby star-light. The brighter shade alluded todoes not, of course, include the cla\-colouredbreasts sometimes seen, nor top-colour in thecocks like lacquered brass, an\- more than thedeep gold means red or maroon colour. I used to like to see the deep rich gold onthe back of a cock, and do so yet in breeders,for in the breeding yard it is better to have toonuu-Ji colouring pigment than too little, thetendency in breeding being rather to lose colourthan to gain. Hut, in show birds, I have cometo the opinion that the bright gold cock is theone that catches the judges eye, and is also the. BUFF LACED AND VIOLETTES. 321 choicer sample from the artistic point of it be understood that this refers to colourtaken by itself, and other things being equal ;and it is not to be supposed that a bright birdwith faulty lacing is to be preferred to a darkwell-laced one. Colour is only one of the points,and the judge who goes for one point to theexclusion of others of equal importance, is termeda faddist. In mating up the breeding pen, all theremarks made above on the Silvers in regard tolacing, should be followed in the Golds. As tocolour, there is however a little difference. Whiteis white always, and we cannot choose degrees init for breeding; but in breeding Golds, it isbetter to err a little on the dark side. I havealways noticed that pullets are inclined to belighter in ground colour than their parents; soin the pullet-breeding pen one should go forplenty of ground-colou
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