Excerpt from The Rhode Island Red: Its History, Breeding, Management, Exhibition, and Judging Since those early days of the Red's career astounding progress has been made. The breed has never looked back - its history has been one continuous record of triumph heap'ed upon triumph. It has at its own most capable back the strongest specialist club in Britain; and even the most terrible war of all time, while having a paralysing effect on most breeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.