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October) can be easily corrected by assuming the value of A to be 

 slightly larger than the recorded number of eggs laid during the arbi- 

 trarily defined laying year of November 1 to the following November 

 1. Thus, instead of taking the value of A to be 163 eggs for the 



X 



180 



160 



140 



120 



100 



80 



60 



40 



20 



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Nov Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr May June July Aug Sept. Oct. 



Fig. 1. Curve showing the average number of eggs laid by the White Leghorn 

 fowl at the Storrs Seventh International Egg Laying Contest. Ordinates repre- 

 sent the number of eggs laid (x) for the time t; abscissae represent the time / from 

 Nov. 1, the beginning of the observation, to any time of the year. 



White Leghorns, 175 eggs are taken, an increase of only 12 eggs over 

 the recorded value, a number which will probably be laid by this 

 breed outside the arbitrary, conventional year; then an excellent 

 agreement is obtained as shown in the following tabulation and in 

 Fig. 1. 



