Selection

by J. M. Affleck

Selection is the most direct and powerful means of improvement at the disposal of the breeder; indeed it is almost the only means of permanent improvement that is under our direct control.

In most phases of the breeding problem the poultry man is an onlooker merely; but by selection he becomes an active agent, and his acts are powerful for the good or evil in controlling the destiny of the breed or variety which we handle. To a large extent he supplants natures selection, and if he is to succeed he must be well grounded in four fundamentals when he thus takes a hand in the course of nature.

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