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Most poultrynien who have observed the hens that are found 

 most often on the nest and have been accustomed to selecting their 

 breeding-pens with this end in view, will, I think, agree to the 

 statements that have been made. They can quite accurately sepa- 

 rate the best layers from the poorest layers. I suggest that those 

 of my friends who have never before given it a thought, or who 

 do not believe in egg type, try selecting a pen of the best layers 

 this spring, and save their eggs to breed from, and see for them- 

 selves whether they do not get a finer lot of laying fowl than they 

 ever had before. The first thing that should be looked to is a 

 fowl that is large and that has a strong constitution, without 

 which all else is for naught. 



The two upper fowl in the illustration are of the 

 laying type. They are of the wild, flighty, squawking type 

 row, closely-knit, bird-shaped bodies. The two lower fowl are built 



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