AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



per hen. Anything above fourteen dozen eggs per 

 year from each hen may well be classed as extraor- 

 dinary. 



There is a small flock to be found here and there 

 over America which has averaged two hundred or 

 more eggs per year from each hen, and there are 

 a few hens with individual records of as high as 

 two hundred and fifty to two hundred and sixty 

 eggs per year ; but these records were made in the 

 hands of skilled poultrymen who not only knew 

 exactly how to feed and manage, but these flocks 

 were the result of years of careful selection and 

 breeding from only the best layers by means of 

 trap-nest records. The poultry keeper whose flock 

 averages more than one hundred eggs per head per 

 annum is engaged in profitable work, and the man 

 whose egg record shows an average of more than 

 one hundred and forty eggs per hen in twelve 

 months has cause to be well pleased with both his 

 fowls and himself as attendant. 



Leg bands are inexpensive aluminium or brass 

 bands which go around the leg of a fowl much the 

 same as a ring on the human finger. They are 

 indispensable to the fancier and a valuable aid to 

 every poultry raiser. The bands contain numbers 

 or initials and enable the poultry raiser to keep a 

 valuable record of the age and breeding or laying 

 performance of every fowl on the place. Thus, old 

 and unprofitable specimens can be weeded out. 



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