Recently, we talked to a well-known cocker and a competent man. If they aren’t good, a silly pedigree of long, pure breeding isn’t going to improve them a particle. What’s the difference how they are or aren’t bred, or who bred them? If they are good today, that’s what you want and need. And, all three of these men claim to have positive proof of their contentions. I can show you another who says he has letters to prove the best cocks Allen ever showed were crosses of Green’s Japs and still another who contends the best Allen ever fought, and this over a period of years, were not bred by Allen at all, but sent him each year by a New England saloon keeper. I can show you a man who claims to have letters from Allen in which he claims his strain was kept good by careful inbreeding. Let’s take the Allen Roundheads as a well-known example. A whole hell of a lot of us are not positive how last season’s chicks were bred, and them right on our own yard at that. Ninety-five percent of us gamefowl breeders don’t know how our own fowl are bred further than two or three generations back. If any man ever hit the nail on the head, it was Henry Ford when he said, much to the disgust of our scholarly element, “History is the bunk!” Much of the history taught in our schools is just that, or at its best inaccurate reporting of past events, and all game fowl history is absolutely bunk. Now, after a lot of developing into the history of present day families of fowl, it makes us laugh right out loud. Every time we read in a game journal or hear someone arguing about how a famous strain was bred, it used to make us smile.
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