. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ficient to show that suchbreeding was practicable, as is also shown by THE BOOK OF POULTRY ^Irs. Wilkinsons notes above. Some Americanbreeders of repute liave never abandoned thatmethod ; but the majority were not satisfiedwith the results, especially in brightness ofcolour and distinctness of barring, and hencecame in the system of double-mating describedabove by Mr. E. B. Thompson. It will beobserved that this system is more complicatedthan that formerly adopted by breeders ofusing similar fe
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ficient to show that suchbreeding was practicable, as is also shown by THE BOOK OF POULTRY ^Irs. Wilkinsons notes above. Some Americanbreeders of repute liave never abandoned thatmethod ; but the majority were not satisfiedwith the results, especially in brightness ofcolour and distinctness of barring, and hencecame in the system of double-mating describedabove by Mr. E. B. Thompson. It will beobserved that this system is more complicatedthan that formerly adopted by breeders ofusing similar females in both pens, with arather dark cockerel to breed cockerels, and that only handle well continue to monopolisethe prize-money, tlic once deep-breasted, long-keeled, broad-backed male and the long,broad-bodied female which is such an excellentlayer, will become defunct. Commenting in a recent article* on the mat-ing of barred Plymouth Rocks, Mr. A. , one of the most famous of Americanbreeders, says:— Modern Barred Rocks are bred by thedouble mating system, which requires a special. I^B- 99-—Iealhcrs from .\merican BarreJ Koclc IuUct, 1901. a rather light one to breed pullets ; the femaleskeejiing the strain related ur in union. In America at the present time there is atendency among some judges to give prefer-ence in the show-pen to birds that have strongunder colour, type apparently being a second-ary consideration with them. And it is notinfrequent tliat specimens of angular contour,narrow bodies, shallow breasts, and b\ nomeans brilliant top colour, are found high upin the prize lists. To such an extent has thisbeen the case that some prominent breedershave not hesitated to point out thnt if birds mating to produce exhibition cockerels, and aspecial mating to produce exhibition yiullets. The cockerel mating should be luaded bya male as near the perfect type and colour aspossible. Select a bird with a medium-sized,evenly serrated comb that sets firmly on theh
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