Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Feather's Practical Pigeon Boo
We all know how, by proper selection, we can, after a time, breed all the fancy qualities out of a pigeon and have nothing left, as it were, but the frame or founda tion. For instance, take the Fantail; by selecting the poorest Specimens of a ?ock, we can, by continued breeding, bring them down to what we call a common pigeon with twelve feathers in the tail, and as distinct in shape and action from the Fan as well can be.
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