Poultry fancier . r opportunity for preventingiu-breeding, since, after discarding theentire offspring from some of the matingsbecause expected improvement was notshown, there were always a sufficientnumber of matings left to insure againstbreeding too closely. peared then, to win laurels later in theshow rooms, and this was actually aneventful year for the new breed. Sizehad come naturally from the beginning,since all foundation stock had been plen-ty large and shape came comparativelyeasy but now good color, of both sexes,was not rare, while occasionally wasfound a combination of the three—s
Poultry fancier . r opportunity for preventingiu-breeding, since, after discarding theentire offspring from some of the matingsbecause expected improvement was notshown, there were always a sufficientnumber of matings left to insure againstbreeding too closely. peared then, to win laurels later in theshow rooms, and this was actually aneventful year for the new breed. Sizehad come naturally from the beginning,since all foundation stock had been plen-ty large and shape came comparativelyeasy but now good color, of both sexes,was not rare, while occasionally wasfound a combination of the three—sizeshape and color. Good illustrations ofthese were the cock bird Generosity,the cock bird which attracted so muchattention at the Indiana State Fair in190S and Conqueror, first -prize cockat Chicago, Dec. 08, a fowl which thejudge said was as good in shape as anyRock in the show and in color a creditto any Partridge breed. Both thesemales stamped quality on their young-sters and to this pair, and especially the. FIRST PRIZE COCK - HEN - COCKEREL <W PULLET COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH R«CKSafl&e GREAT HAG ER STOW N FAIR af\Q\\the GRAND CENTRAL PALACE - New lark 1911 Jireeta/tatOtuncc/fr<s 1: -O BEAN Collegeville, Peium Free A. Real Egg Getter RecipeHens Lay whether Thpy want to or notA. R. Sayler Drug Co., , Pa. However, after several years of 03-deavor, and at times it was pretty dis-couraging, fairly good specimens beg*-,uto appear pretty regularly. In 190 i afew of them were quite satisfactory, evento an old breeder of Partridge color andquite a number were sold for breedingpurposes. Within a year or two it \\asnoticeable that the new fowl was repro-ducing much more true to type, goodshape predominating with fair color inthe majority, but the process of cullingout very closely was rigidly adhered this latter along with a system ofcareful pedigreeing, I attribute much ofthe progress that was made at about thistime for blood began to tell, beside itwas easy to kn
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