Success with pedigreed reds,

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...the breeding season as by careful watching of the trapnest the poor birds can almost without exception be found by the first of February. Of course there are some birds that lay with considerable winter intensity, yet do not finish out a creditable year. These are the ones, especially if good as individuals, that test the mettle of the breeder when culling. They are breeding uncertainties and are best off the program. Insofar as our work has gone we find that color has absolutely nothing to do with production. In other words there is no correlation between the poor color and high production as so many have tried to make us think. Our first consideration is high production,, but this without due regard to reasonable color and breed type is not a good breeding foundation. I know a large plant that works for high production alone, and their slogan seems to be "It is impossible to serve two masters at once." Hence--they claim, along with many others, that production and good Standard qualities, even to show quality, cannot be combined in the same bird. We have not gone very far in the production of real show birds, not, as yet, making any claim to exhibition quality, but the work we have done and the consistent improvements from season to season, resulting in a higher production average, proves to me that there is just one obstacle to accomplishing this end. That is the Jack of will to perservere and study with this definite object as an end. As regards the serving of two masters at the same time, in this connection, I feel like going one step further and in place of that slogan use something to the effect that it is desirable and possible to combine both qualities into one harmonious whole, the object being to produce Standard-bred...