. The Wyandotte fowl; its general characteristics and advice on rearing, mating and breeding with a chapter on judging of exhibition birds . , from which they donot sell eggs to anyone, for the reason that males from thisparticular pen become fit mates for whoever sends formale blood, while, as a rule, the females become thebreeding pens for their particular strain, mated to the maleof the line having the seven-eighths blood of this particularstrain, whose new blood is drawn from a different source thanthe one offered for sale, and again secure for themselves anew lot of pure males, from which
. The Wyandotte fowl; its general characteristics and advice on rearing, mating and breeding with a chapter on judging of exhibition birds . , from which they donot sell eggs to anyone, for the reason that males from thisparticular pen become fit mates for whoever sends formale blood, while, as a rule, the females become thebreeding pens for their particular strain, mated to the maleof the line having the seven-eighths blood of this particularstrain, whose new blood is drawn from a different source thanthe one offered for sale, and again secure for themselves anew lot of pure males, from which they again produce anew set of males. To be successful, one has to look beyond the present—for future generations—and back through several genera-tions if he would breed with that accuracy, that others,while examining birds here and there, may be able to rec-ognize them, in form and color, to be of his sort, as theysay of Booth, Bates and other families of cattle, and likerecognized types and progeny of noted sires in care and work is the excitement and interest whichmakes enthusiastic fanciers. 22 The Wyandotte HOW TO JUDGE WYANDOTTES. [For disqualifications sec Standard of Excellence.] WTe have endeavored to place at the head of our article, How to Judge Wyandottes, a typical representative cutof the race, in all the prominent parts of general observation. THE COCK. Symmetry.—In considering this, we notice every defectin it, and punish the same more severely than the samedefect in the female, because of the fact that it is expectedthat he will transmit that quality in a greater degree thandoes the female. Symmetry can be said to be harmony of The Wyandotte Fowl. 23 perfect parts, and when symmetry is perfect, we certainly haveno occasion to look for defects of form in sections. Thendefect in color, or disease of plumage, comes into consider-ation. A male with long legs and long neck, bony body, infact, long in the joints, could, however, be reasonabl
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