Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — Improving Poultry Breads. [ARTICLE]

Improving Poultry Breads.

There are uow more thuu 100 standard breeds of poultry, aud yet the breeders and fauciers are striving to Improve on what we have. Some breed for beauty in plumage, others for size and shape; then again by the nse of trap nests strains are being bred to Increase the egg production. “The scrub must go.” whether It be the scrub cow, the scrub pig or the scrub chicken. Very few persons realize that If the fanciers of pure bred fowls were to quit Improving their birds altogether they would eventual* ly revert to their first progenitors, the wild jungle fowl of India. 80 wlthotft the help of the fancier, who by selection and elimination breeds up the varieties, our fowls would soon deteriorate and become almost worthless; hence the value of the pure bred fowl to the termer and everybody who uses them or their products.—Housestead.