BROODINESS IN DOMESTIC FOWL. 



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Table VII. — Number and Per Cent of Birds Broodxj and not Broody in 

 Pidlet Year in Three Flocks of Rhode Island Reds. 



lines, derived from this extremely broody stock, exliibited a low degree 

 of broodiness surpassed only by the Leghorns (Table VI). The most 

 significant data on this point are given in the third and last columns of 

 Table VI. Table VII shows the relation between the number of broody 

 birds and those not broody for the flocks of 1912-13, 1913-14 and 1917-18. 

 The flock of 1912-13 was the foundation stock. 



Tables VIII and X give a further comparison between the broody birds 

 of the flocks of 1913-14 and 1917-18. 



