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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



or two, doubtless, are doing phenomenally good laying. 

 Nothing else could impress this fact on the consciousness 

 of a Beginner so forcibly as a bit of demonstration work 

 I saw at the New York State Fair in 1911. It consisted 



Home-Made Trap-Nest Series. Rear Doors, entered from Platform, Swing 

 Inward. Similar Doors in Front, Swing Outward. Hen Leaves Nest at 

 Will, Entering Confining Pen 



simply of three " Record hens " and their respective out- 

 put. The output was shown in wire net receptacles, and 

 was seen at a glance. One of these contained eight eggs ; 

 a second contained one hundred twenty-eight eggs ; the 

 third contained one hundred seventy-five eggs. Any 

 Beginner, pondering on reasons why some people con- 

 tend that poultry does not pay, while others demonstrate 

 that it does, needs only to figure the difference in gross 

 returns from the hen that lays eight eggs a year and the 

 one that lays one hundred seventy-five a year, in order 



