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MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I902. 



EGG RECORDS— Concluded. 

 Light Brahmas. 



= 



£ 



3 



o 



493. 

 494. 

 495. 

 496. 

 497. 

 498. 

 499. 

 500. 



18 



14 



18 



20 



4 



13 



8 

 Jl 



4 

 18 



4 



H 



13 



2 



18 



It 

 5 

 6 

 4 



15 

 2 

 3 



5 

 10 



1 

 15 

 12 



6 



14 



16 

 18 

 18 



7 

 16 



'i: 

 11 



in 

 11 

 1.3 

 11 

 12 

 2 



22 

 12 



13 



12 



2 

 22 



8 



13 



14 







7 



in 



9 



12 



is 



107 

 80 

 76 

 62 



118 

 18 



147 



130 



* Dead. 



f Stolen. 



RECORDS OF PULLETS, I9OO-I9OI. 



On November 1, 1900, 100 April and May hatched Barred 

 Plymouth Rock pullets, and 90 White Wyandotte pullets 

 hatched at the same time were put into the house previously 

 described and treated in the same manner that their predecessors 

 had been during the two preceding years. 



Fourteen of the Rocks and 17 of the Wyandottes died during 

 the year. There was no evidence of disease among them. Up 

 to October 31, 1901, the hundred Plymouth Rocks laid 13,200 

 eggs; an average of 132 to each bird. Six birds yielded from 

 200 to 234 eggs each to October 31st, and in the same pens were 

 six of their mates that laid only between 23 and 70 eggs each. 

 There were six others that yielded over 200 eggs each before the 

 first year of their laying was completed, making 12 hens that each 

 laid 200 eggs or over, during the first year, out of the 100 put in 

 to the test at the commencement of the year. The best work by 

 any hen since we have been selecting the breeding stock by the 

 present method was done this year by No. 617 who gave her first 

 egg November 29, 1900, and to November 28, 1901, she had laid 

 251 eggs. 



The ninety White Wyandottes laid 11,184 eggs to Oct. 31, an 

 average of 124 to each one. Six birds yielded from 203 to 233 

 eggs each. The six poorest layers gave yields between 36 and 

 65 eggs each. The following tables show the monthly yields for 

 this vear. 



