. Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties. Orpington chicken. take them in any breeder's hands or in the hands of our experimental stations, and look through the poultry jour- nals and size them up and you will find that they are as good if not better than any other known breed, when it comes to egg producing. There is only one thing that I would like to guard all breeders against, and that is be careful when breeding for show pu
. Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties. Orpington chicken. take them in any breeder's hands or in the hands of our experimental stations, and look through the poultry jour- nals and size them up and you will find that they are as good if not better than any other known breed, when it comes to egg producing. There is only one thing that I would like to guard all breeders against, and that is be careful when breeding for show purposes. Some of the best breeds in this coun- try have been ruined by people just trying to breed for feathers, and forgetting the utility end of it. Now my main object is jus't to try and see how good egg producers and how large fowls I can produce. It is eggs and meat I am after. Take the commercial end of it away from a breed and it will soon fall by the way- side. It does not matter how good your birds are in the showroom, nor how many ribbons they will take, if they do not produce the eggs and meat, they will soon lose in popu- larity. Every day I am writing to my various customers telling them especially when it comes along about mating time to be very careful in se- lecting their birds and not breed them for feathers alone, but to always re- member the most important part is just meat and eggs. Of course lots of people say today that the White Orp- ingtons are now on a wonderful boom. I think that is wrong; there is no wonderful boom. There is simply a demand. The farmers and the breed- ers and the city fellow and all of us want meat and eggs, and the Orp- ingtons produce those two things. and that is the reason why everybody wants them. There is going to be a steady demand for the White Orpington for years and years to come. They are a fowl that is here to stay and to stay just as long as they will "deliver the goods," not forgetting the commercial end of it;
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