PROBLEM OF HIGHER FECUNDITY 



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LIKE DOES NOT ALWAYS BEGET LIKE 

 Two full sisters. C48 (left) laid 268 eggs. C60 (right) laid 3 eggs. 



satisfy scientific demand 

 in regard to the mode 

 of inheritance, if not of 

 the fact of inheritance 

 itself. 



The breeding work of 

 the Maine Station, be- 

 gun by Professor Go- 

 well and continuing 

 nine years in co- 

 operation with the 

 Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry during part of 

 that period, produced 

 negative results so far 

 as raising the standard 

 of egg production of the 



OREGON STATION HEN D18 



271 eggs in a year. From same dam as C119 



and C166, but different sire. Note short 



body. 



flock under investigation was concerned. After a thorough 

 study had been made of the trapnest records the an- 



