62 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 
WEIGHT AND PRODUCTION OF EGGS. 
P. L. Simmonds, before the London Society 
of Arts: 
‘¢ The standard yield and weight of eggs for the different 
varieties of the domestic fowl may be taken as follows: 
Light Brahmas and Partridge Cochins, eggs seven to the 
pound; they lay, according to treatment and food, from 
eighty to one hundred and fifty per annum; sometimes 
more if kept well. Dark Brahmas, eight to the pound, 
seventy per annum.” 
TO THE POUND PER ANNUM 
Black, White and Buff Cochins 8 100 
Plymouth Rocks 8 100 
Houdan * 8 150 
La Fleche ci 130 
Black Spanish 7 150 
Dominiques 9 130 
Game Fowl 9 130 
Creves ce oe ee 
Leghorns 9 . 150 to 200 
Hamburgs 9 170 
Polish is oda Tear the Ee 1S Sereh eee 150 
SQTUBAIIS © so ec fs ee ee te de ae ae ee aE 
MPUPWCVE or S07 eas G6) Sen Tow pew 18d ooh ae 
Duecks- 3.055) GN SS OS Bees ee 
GGCBE 6 ye aoa ceed Bee oir ee ae 
Goines Fowl 5.0.00 eo ee ae 
* Non-sitters 
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