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breeding from the most productive, the plan is suggested of trap-nesting 

 each year the choicest pullets for the first six months or more of their 

 first laying year. From these select the most productive pullets to be 

 used as breeders the following year, that is, when they are two years 

 old from the shell. It has been found that pullets show early in life 

 their egg-laying capacity, so much so that pullets of the same age and 

 variety given similar care, that lay the largest number of eggs during 

 their first year from the egg, will, in all probability, be the most prolific 

 individuals in the flock. This method will do away with the necessity 



Fig. 91. — The new force-feed grit-hopper with three compartments. Note 

 slanting top and method of attaching to the wall. 



of trap-nesting the entire year and will permit the record-making to be 

 done during the six months, approximately, October, November, Decem- 

 ber, January, February and March, when the time can best be spared 

 on a general, or on a poultry farm. 



For the poultryman, however, who is adapted to the work and who 

 will trap-nest conscientiously and continuously and who will breed in- 

 telligently, we think there is large reward. The reward will come first 

 by increasing the yield per hen and thereby the profits for commercial 

 egg production, and second by the production of pedigreed stock for 

 breeding purposes and eggs for hatching. The latter will require in addi- 

 tion to the special knowledge of how to feed, house, trap-nest and to 

 breed poultry in order to secure large production and vigorous stock, a 



