36 



MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



I902. 



EGG RECORDS- CONCLUDED. 

 Light Brahmas. 



s 5 



49.3. 

 494. 

 495. 



496. 

 497. 



498. 

 499. 

 500. 



IS 



5 



16 



10 



IS 



1 



IS 



15 



7 



12 



16 



6 



IT 



14 



11 



13 



14 



12 



Is 



107 

 80 

 76 

 62 



118 

 18 



147 



130 



*Dead. 



t Stolen. 



RECORDS OF PULLETS, IOXDO-IQOI. 



On Xovember 1, 1900. 100 April and May hatched Barred 

 Plymouth Rock pullets, and 90 White Wyandotte pullets 

 hatched at the same time were put into the house previously 

 described and treated in the same manner that their predecessors 

 had been during the two preceding years. 



Fourteen of the Rocks and 17 of the Wyandottes died during 

 the year. There was no evidence of disease among them. 

 Lp to October 31. 1901, the hundred Plymouth Rocks laid 

 13,200 eggs: an average of 132 to each bird. Six birds 

 yielded from 200 to 234 eggs each to October 31st. and 

 in the same pens were six of their mates that laid only 

 between 23 and 70 eggs each. There were six others that 

 yielded over 200 eggs each before the first year of their laying 

 was completed, making 12 hens that each laid 200 eggs or over, 

 during the first year, out of the 100 put in to the test at the com- 

 mencement of the year. The best work by any hen since we 

 have been selecting the breeding stock by the present method was 

 done this year by Xo. 617 who gave her first egg Xovember 29,. 

 1900, and to Xovember 28, 1901, she had laid 251 eggs. 



The ninety White Wyandottes laid 11,184 e gg s t0 Oct. 31. an 

 average of 124 to each one. Six birds yielded from 203 to 233 

 eggs each. The six poorest layers gave yields between 36 and 

 65 eggs each. The following tables show the monthly yields for 

 this vear. 



