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EGG PRODUCTION. 



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This will show you the result of the daily egg production 

 of a certain flock of trap-nested hens for three years. Mark 

 you, it isn't a different flock for each year, but the same 

 hens day after day, three hundred and sixty-five days in the 

 year for three years. We will see when the good hens are 

 laying and the poor ones are not laying. Let me explain 

 the key to you. 



Each one of the lines on the chart represents the daily 

 production. Each square is the egg production of each hen 

 per day, and these are the months, December, January, Feb- 

 ruary, etc., — remember, beginning with December and con- 

 tinuing right through until the end of the year, then begin- 

 ning on the second year the same way and in the same man- 

 ner for the third year. So each one of these lines represents 

 the daily production for the first year, for the second year 

 and the third year. Wherever a hen had made her best 

 record in her first year we have given her a blue mark; 

 that is first prize. Wherever she has made her medium 

 production we have given her a red color, so that some hens, 

 you will see, made their best record in that first year and 

 are blue; the next record will be red and the next brown. 

 Or you can reverse it. We have got one hen here that sur- 

 prised us all. We named her " Cornell Surprise," just be- 

 cause she reversed the expected order of things. What do 

 you suppose that foolish hen did? She laid 180 eggs the 

 first year. A hen is ordinarily expected to lay about 10 



