102 MAINE AGRrCULTUR-\L EXPERIMENT STATION. I905. 



The charts shown are only given as examples of the breeding. 

 In the male breeding pens nearly 30 different hens are employed 

 this year, which give as many different pedigrees. In the 

 unregistered female breeding pens are several hundred breeding 

 hens, each giving pedigrees to their progeny. In the chart 

 illustrating the breeding of the registered males, it is shown that 

 his mother and her m.other were both producers of over 200 eggs. 

 We have two other similar instances where the daughters of 

 200 egg producers are themselves 200 egg producers. This has 

 not generally been so, probably because the hen that laid heavily 

 one year did not commence laying until so late the following 

 year that their pullets came into laying too late in the year to 

 make great records for themselves. Several hundreds of the 

 unregistered cockerels have for each of the last three years been 

 sold to poultrymen and farmers and a great deal of commenda- 

 tion has been expressed relative to the benefits derived from 

 their use in securing earlier and increased egg yields. 



The first chart shows the breeding of the registered males 

 that were raised in the present breeding year of 1905. The 

 registered m.ales are designated by numbers. It will be noted 

 that the mother and the grandmother of the registered males 

 are registered birds in the sense in which we use the word, 

 the mother having yielded 203 and the grandmother 213 eggs in 

 their first laying years. Beyond that, while the birds are pure 

 bred, we do not know their breeding except that their mothers 

 laid not less than 150 and not more than 199 eggs in their first 

 laying years. The breeding of the unregistered males and 

 females raised in 1905 differs from the registered in that none 

 of the mothers have laid over 199 eggs in their first laying year. 



