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11. What is the most practical method of handhng broody hens? 



12. Name the two most important considerations in summer management. 

 1.3. What is the profitable age of birds as layers? 



14. Discuss the selection of layers for the second year. 



1 5. Discuss management during the fall molt. 



16. What is a good egg yield? 



17. Name three factors which tend toward improvement in egg production. 



18. Are egg records valuable? Why? 



19. Of what use are china nest eggs? 



20. Discuss the vice of egg eating and state how it may be controlled. 



References. — The Yearly Record of Three Flocks, by H. H. Wing, Cornell 

 Bulletin 211. A Record of Six Hundred Hens, by Horace Atwood, West 

 Virginia Bulletin 115. Cost of Egg Production, by Henry H. Wing, Cornell 

 Bulletin 204. Winter Egg Production, by H. R. Lewis, Circular, New Jersey 

 Board of Agriculture. Poultry Keeping for Egg Production, by W. P. Brooks, 

 Massachusetts Bulletin 122. Feeding and Management of Poultry for Egg 

 Production, by J. S. Jeffrey, North Carolina Bulletin 211. Essentials of 

 Profitable Egg Production, by H. R. Lewis, New Jersey Bulletin 244. 



