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lay the most eggs in the year, they also lay a large per- 

 centage of those eggs when they are high-priced. When we 

 find a hen that lays only a few eggs in a year she " adds 

 insult to injury " hy laying them when they are cheapest. 

 Therefore, the man who gets the largest production per hen 

 also gets the largest average price for his eggs because the 

 best hens, to use a baseball term, " bunch their hits " at 

 strategic times. They produce eggs when we want them the 

 most. They don't lay any less in the springtime than do the 

 poor hens. It is simply a question of a hen being born 

 right, with a tendency to lay, and then having her properly 

 fed and handled. 



I am going to ask a couple of our friends here in the 

 " l)al(l-headed row " to hold up, so you can see it, a chart, 

 in order that you may understand what I cannot show you 

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