108 POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



OREGONA OREGON STATION WHITE LEGHORN HEN A27 



987 eggs in five years. At beginning of sixth year had laid more than 1,000 

 eggs. The greatest Icng-distance trapnest record known: first year, 240 eggs; 

 second year, 222 eggs; third year, 202 eggs; fourth year, 155 eggs; fifth year, 

 168 eggs. 



. . . "A low degree of fecundity may be inherited from 

 either sire or dam." To state Doctor Pearl's conclusions 

 in another way : High fecundity may be inherited from the 

 sire, or may not. In other words, some sires will transmit 

 this characteristic and some will not. Whether nine in ten, 

 or one in a hundred have this power, we are not informed, 

 and Doctor Pearl does not presume to know. Breeders 

 therefore will not be misled into the belief that all males 

 have the power of transmitting the egg-laying characteris- 

 tics of their dams. Pearl, however, is definite when he says 



