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minutes doing this in the presence of Mr. C. S. Greene, at that 

 time the manager whom nearly all the leading poultrymen 

 know; and Mr. T. A. Hoverstad, then Superintendent of the 

 station. These gentlemen then had absolutely no faith in the 

 method! not knowing anything about it; but were assured by 

 me that if the barren pen laid an egg, or either of the others 

 failed to perform as I indicated, they were at liberty to publish 

 the method and me to the world as a fraud. The first day 

 showed pen No. 1, 45 eggs; pen No. 2, 20 eggs; pen No 3, no 



Cut No. 4. Showing a Convenient Method of Holding Fowls 

 When Testing Them. 



-eggs; and this continued with slight variations, the entire per- 

 iod of the experiment which lasted for weeks; though not a 

 single egg appeared in the barren pen. The per cent of eggs to 

 the 100 hens for the entire time was: First pen, 60 per cent, per 

 day; second pen, 37; third pen nothing. But for lack of room, 

 I might give many more experiments and tests fully as startling 

 as the above. 



But to go on ; within two years after selecting my first 

 layers in this way, I had a flock, the larger part of which was 

 laying 200 eggs and above per year, individual layers greatly 

 exceeding this. 



