46 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9O3. 



Aside from the foundation stock in the following table, all of 

 the other breeding females we are now carrying are tested hens 

 that have laid over i8o eggs in a year; pullets whose mothers 

 laid over 200 eggs in a year, and whose fathers' mothers laid 

 over 200 eggs in a year ; and pullets out of hens whose sires 

 were out of 200-egg hens, the pullets themselves being sired by 

 cockerels bred for two generations on both dam and sire sides 

 from 200-egg producers. 



FOUNDATION STOCK WITH EGG RECORDS TO OCTOBER 31, 1892. 





s 



When hatched. 



4 



14 



47 



403 



428 



445 



480 



729 



742 



753 



765 



770 



777 



101 



286 



303 



318 



326 



609 



612 



617 



630 



635 



672 



676 



1001 



1002 



1003 



1005 



1012 



1028 



1140 



April, 1898 



April, 1898 



April, 1898 



April, 1899 



April, 1899 



April, 1899 



April, 1899 .. .. 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 



April. 1900 



April, 1900 



April. 1900 



June, 1898 



June, 1898 



April, 1899 



April, 1899 •• .. 



April, 1899 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 



April. 1900 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 



April, 1900 .. .. 



April, 1901 



April, 1901 



April, 1901 



April, 1901 



April, 1901 



April, 1901 



o 



9) 



bo 

 bt) 



119 



72 



89 



93 



134 



113 



1.50 



22 



102 



42 



33 



85 

 49 

 104 

 176 

 138 

 133 

 137 

 143 

 185 

 102 

 213 

 205 

 240 

 222 

 201 

 206 

 211 



COMPARISONS OF THE YIELDS OF HENS DURING THE FIRST AND 



SECOND YEARS OF LAYING. 



^^'ith many poultrymen the idea is prevalent that if a hen lay 

 but few^ eggs the first year, she is likely to do better the second 

 year, than though she laid well during the first. 



The data so far secured, does not show that hens that yield 

 120 eggs, or less, the first year, yield satisfactorily the second 



