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A Rhode Island Red hen beginning to molt. She is at the end of her "pullet year," in which 

 she laid 142 eggs, fully twice the average for all hens in the United States. Her feed 

 consum])tion in this time is shown in the photograph, whicli was made by the Bureau of 

 Animal Industrv on its farm at Beltsville, Md. (Fig. 22.) 



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A pullet will not lay when licr fict arc cold and her comb is frozen. This is a fair example 

 of much of the housing provided for poultry in the Unitcfl States. Photograph from the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. (Fig. 23.) 



