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Oregon hen C543, 291 eggs 122 



Highest record hen at the Missouri 1913-14 competition . . . . 122 



The head indicating laying quality 123 



Breeder of poor layers, 20 eggs in a year 124 



White Leghorn hen, laid 1 egg in a year 124 



A good layer from poor laying stock 125 



Poor layers from good laying stock 125 



Barred Plymouth Rock hen laid 74 eggs in a year 126 



Another view of Oregona 126 



White Leghorn hen, 242 eggs in first year 126 



Hen E248, 302 eggs. Daughter of C516 127 



White Leghorn hen C516, 267 eggs in a year 127 



Two poor layers 128 



Utah Station Wyandottes 128 



New Zealand White Leghorns 129 



White Wyandottes averaged 208.5 eggs in Storrs contest . . 129 



White Leghorns averaged 208.8 eggs in Storrs Competition. . 130 

 Winning pen in the Panama Pacific International Egg-laying 



Competition 130 



The long and the short way, in breeding for eggs 131 



Record of a flock of 43 fowls at the Oregon Station for two 



years 131 



Good fall and winter producers the best layers 132 



The first layers the best layers 133 



Inheritance of egg production 134, 135 



Egg organs of the hen 136 



Poultry keeping and dairying 139 



An Oregon fruit and poultry farm 141 



A California poultry and fruit farm 141 



1,000 pullets in prune orchard 142 



Eggs and peaches from the same ground 143 



Free range colony system at Petaluma, California, 145 



Petaluma farm of 120 acres and 6,000 hens .146 



Cleaning out the houses on a Petaluma farm 147 



Land unfit for cultivation is used 148 



2,000 hens on 3 acres 148 



Exclusive poultry farming on the intensive system 149 



4,000 hens on 4 acres 150 



The intensive plan 151 



Backyard egg farming 152 



