massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 



TECHNICAL BULLETIN No. 6 JANUARY, 1924 



THE INHERITANCE OF FERTILITY AND 

 HATCHABILITY IN POULTRY 



By F. A. HAYS and RUBY SANBORN 



Determination of fact as to inheritance of characters is essential to suc- 

 cessful poultry breeding. This work is peculiarl>' within the province of 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station, for records must be made on large 

 numbers of individual birds, the work must extend over a period of years, 

 a wearisome amount of data must be preserved. The data recorded in 

 this bulletin are the result of eleven years' v/ork. Individual records were 

 made on 886 birds. Resulting data are now anal\'zed statistically in the 

 light of all that genetic science has to offer. It is through work such as 

 this that a basis of sound fact, in poultry breeding work, will ultimately 

 replace one based largely on opinion and tradition. 



Requests for Bulletins should be addressed to the 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



AMHERST, MASS. 



Publication of this Document approved by the Commission on Administration and Finance 



