. The national standard squab book. A practical manual giving complete and precise directions for the installation and management of a successful squab plant. Pigeons. National Standard Squab Book. SI ing). When (1) a brother is mated to sister or (2) a father to a daughter, or (3) a mother to a son, or (4) a grandson to his grandmother, etc., that is inbreeding. We know it is forbidden by law for liuman beings to mate jn that manner, because (a) God in the Scriptures has forbidden it, aiid (,b) because the State does not wish to have to care for the puny,^ Wealc^ minded offspring that would r
. The national standard squab book. A practical manual giving complete and precise directions for the installation and management of a successful squab plant. Pigeons. National Standard Squab Book. SI ing). When (1) a brother is mated to sister or (2) a father to a daughter, or (3) a mother to a son, or (4) a grandson to his grandmother, etc., that is inbreeding. We know it is forbidden by law for liuman beings to mate jn that manner, because (a) God in the Scriptures has forbidden it, aiid (,b) because the State does not wish to have to care for the puny,^ Wealc^ minded offspring that would result from such unions. We all kaow thkt the marriages of cousins often result in demented, diseased children. Now suppose you buy tTi o down pairs of pigeons of us, and number them Pairs 1 to 24. If you mate the offspring of Pair 2 (or any other pair) to the of£- spniug of Pair 1 (or any other pair) that is outbreeding. What you do not do, arjd what you try to prevent, is the mating of the offspring of Pair No. 1 (or any other pair) to each other. So, you see, if you have a dozen or two pairs, you need never iabreed, for there is an infinite variety of matings possible. Breeders of animals sometimes inbreed pur- posely in order to get better color of fur or plumage, or finer bones, etc., but what is gained in these respects is lost in size and stamina. Fowls hatched from studied inbreedings often are so weak that their progress across the barnyard is like the tottering, falling progress'of a drunkard. There are no brothers and sisters in the flocks we sell. If you buy one dozen or twenty dozen pairs of breeders of ns, the pairs will be unrelated, 3ud you need never Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rice, Elmer C. Boston, Mass
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