108 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 199. 



Table V. — "NoJi-broody" Lines, 1917-18. 



[Daughters of males No. 300.3, No. 5470 and No. 9752.] 



conclusion is supported by the ratios observed in other matings which 

 have already been commented upon. However, the amount of broodi- 

 ness in the first lajdng j-ear is much reduced compared ^ith the flock from 

 which it originated, the data on this point being given in Table VH, Table 

 VIII, item 4, and Table IX. A comparison with the published results 

 of the laying contest at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 

 shows that our foundation stock had broodiness developed to a higher 

 degree than any of the breeds studied at Storrs, and that our non-broody 



Table VI. — Broodiness in the Several Breeds at the Storrs Contest of 

 1915-16, compared uith Three Flocks at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



