Four Methods of Feeding Early Hatched Pullets. 



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Fig. 128. — A record of daily production. 



High production in pullets retards the first mature molt. 



Of the six best layers from each of the four pens, numbering twenty- 

 four hens, all but two were laying when the experiment closed, and four 

 ( 16.6 per cent.) were molting. Of these four, two were losing just a few 

 feathers; only two (8.3 per cent.) were in heavy molt. In other words 

 the best producers molted last. 



Broodiness. 



There was no broodiness among the wet mash and grain fed hens ; 

 and only one hen, causing a loss of three days, among the dry mash and 



