The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-06

We must select those that come
nearest to the standard, and If we are
lucky enough to find n Of those rare
fellows that transmits his good quail
ties we should be loathe to part with
him at any price. In fact, it is hard
to put a value on a bird OF this kind.
If you want to breed fine chickens
you can never succeed by buying
somebody's Gull stock at a small
price. Start with a few good ones and
YOU may soon have a large flock that
you will be proud Of and other peo-
pie will desire them, affording a ready
sale at good profit. AS the same laws
hold true regarding the breeding OF
chickens as other animals, mai IN
Guided, l want to present a few facts
on this important subject, heredity,
and see if | can not make 1t so PLAIN
and impressive as to dispel all doubts
in your minds as it has in my own.
This subject it seems to me, is the
one, of all subjects, a farmer should
be familiar with, as it applies not
only to his livestock of all kinds, but
also holds good in the vegetable king
dom as we'll as man himself.
Men do not gather grapes from
thorns, nor figs from thistles now any
more than they did when it was first
uttered, and the sooner Southern FAR
mers awake to these scientific Facts
and learn to breed their stock and
plants only from the best, they will
begin to .ome into their own God
given rights, that have been laying
idle at their very doors, unnoticed
since the world began, while men
have bewailed their hard lot and
"cussed" the politicians for not bring
ing good times.
In describing the facts of hereditary
resemblances between successive gen.
erations, two formulas are available:
The first deals only with the indlVld-
ual-the mendelian formula: Inc
second deals with the group-the sta
tistical formula.
The Mendelian formula regards
each individual separately and de-
scribes it's heredity thus.
The Statistical formula regards the
whole group as a unit and considers
the individual as only Il OF the
crowd.
As the Mendelian is of the greatest
inheritance on account of its more eX-
act character, a short description will
be given. :.
One of the simplest illustrations is
the one given by Bateson II is as
follows: The Andalusian fowl IS OF
two colors, white and black. Each
breeds rue to itself, black mated with
white producing white.
Crossing black and white, however,
results in the production of a graylsh
color, which is really a fine mixture
of white and black.
This is what would be naturally eX-
pected and would lead us to believe
We had 4 gray hybrid strain ron the
mixture of white and black. Not So
sor if we continue to breed success
sive generations from these hybrid
fowls we get three different colored
forms. Some will be grey Xix pa
rents, some black like one grandpa
rent and some white like the other
crandparent. Not only this, but we
ret certain definite proportions among
these classes of descendants. Of the
total number approximately one-half
will be gray like parents and one
quarter black and one-quarter white
like each of the grandparents.
Now comes the most important
fact of all. These blacks bred to-
gether produce only blacks,the whites
similarly only white-the gray on the
other hand produce progeny sorting
into the same three original classes
and in the same proportion as the
first hybrids.
No race of hybrid character a be