Show In the first place let me make this emphatic statement There Thero is n no o II BEST breed or 01 variety of chicken In due respect to all r I make this s statement If you have a certain certai n breed or variety do not think they are the best because they are not There are good strains in all breeds Chose the breed or variety that hat suits suit s your tan fancy and devote your energies energies ener ener- gies to making them profitable It i ithe is s the strain or blood lines that really Y count Just because a chick Is a Plymouth Rock a Leghorn or Rhode Island Red is not what makes It a L world beater It Is the breeding u up p of any flock to higher egg productIon product product- Ion that makes record producers By trap nesting any breed or flock o of f hens and using for tor breeders one only Y those that are high producers goo good c d size and chock full tull of ot vigor and ar are reasonably close to the standard requirements requirements re re- you can In a few tew years pear s build up a strain with blood lines behind behind be behind hind them that makes them far tar superior superior su su- parlor to the ordinary flock of ot th the same breed or variety with which no such careful methods have been beet n used In this way or by line breedIng breeding breed breed- ing all strains of chickens originate What breed shall I select t is s always the question some one is always al always al- al ways sure to ask whenever I make the tho foregoing statement To that I Ican can cnn only mike make the classic reply It all depends Then Then I counter with the question What do you want to accomplish There are three gen- gen oral arse classes the meat class the egg class and the general purpose class The purpose of the first two named Is perfectly clear and that of the third is almost equally so I General purpose trawls fowls are very t ien little Inferior Interior as layers to the so railed egg class and will wUl often compare favorably with meat class 1 fowls for tor table use They make excellent excellent ex ox- broilers fryers roasters and capons and the old hens henSy It If fat will i usually bring good prices Perhaps I the most popular general purpose purpose breed Is fa the Plymouth Rocks which i imay may be had In several varieties The 1 Barred Plymouth Ro Rn kt n.- n. th rie Yn a n. n u popular farm tarm flock chicken in the corn belt sections of ot the middle west as well as in many other sec sections lons They all other breeds and varieties of ot chickens in all aU the egg laying contests In the United States 3 Second come Rhode Island Reds Roda t |