A COUNTRY READER. 



season, carefully following out this law of selec- 

 tion, it is almost impossible to say to what pitch of 

 egg-laying perfection in a few years your hens 

 may reach. 



LIGHT BRAHMA. 



It is considered a good average for an ordinary 

 hen to lay 100 eggs per annum, but by carefully 

 following- out the law of selection in the manner 

 just stated, strains of hens have been reared that 

 lay 150 to 200 eggs per annum. 



The hen that lays 200 eggs costs no more to 

 keep than the hen that lays 100, and if by care 



