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Nature-Study Agriculture 



shows, the following table gives the right weights for 

 each : 



How to 

 raise good 

 layers 



The quality 

 to breed for 



Important as it is to have a good breed of chickens, it 

 is equally important to have a good strain of that breed. 

 In every breed some hens are better layers than others, 

 and their special characteristics are inherited by chickens 

 hatched from their eggs. If eggs from the best layers 

 of each generation of chickens are selected for setting, 

 a strain of good layers will soon be developed. It is 

 important that the cockerels be hatched from eggs of 

 good laying hens. There are many poultry breeders 

 who believe that egg-laying ability is inherited more 

 through the male than through the female. 



With chickens, as with cattle, it is better to breed from 

 the high producers than from those that have some 

 special " show " color or other unimportant charac- 

 ter. It is sometimes remarked that White Leghorns 

 are even better layers than Brown Leghorns because 

 breeding for color takes less attention with the white 

 variety. 



