October 4, 1983

Dear Mister Plant:

Congratulations on finishing The Pekin Bantam in Australia. I shall look forward to receiving it.

The American Standard of Perfection (1983 edition) has just been delivered to the printer. I served as editor so can appreciate your feeling of both accomplishment and relief at having completed your project. Our new Standard will have 464 colored plates and 231 pages of text.

I know we will have stirred some controversy but trust that the percentage will be favorable.

Our national show will be held next month at Columbus, Ohio. The report is that there will be 15,000 entries. That makes it almost too large to view comfortably in the length of time available.

My feather factory netted a couple of promising youngsters this year and with the increasing costs of feeds I’m not keeping a large number around just to look at.

Sincerely yours,

John Skinner
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