6 POULTRY 
When we consider that the average produc- 
tion of eggs on the general farm in the eastern 
United States is approximately seventy-five 
eggs per hen per year, and then discover that 
many of the successful chicken men in that 
same area are getting an average of one hun- 
dred and forty eggs per hen per year, and 
are doing this with flocks of ten hundred, 
twelve hundred and fifteen hundred hens, we 
can see that there must be a great deal in the 
selection of the stock. A grower can afford 
to pay a higher price for foundation stock 
coming from strong, vigorous, thrifty birds 
which have been bred to produce eggs. 
Under prevailing prices a flock laying eleven 
dozen eggs per hen per year will yield a 
return of fifty to sixty cents more per hen 
than a flock which is laying ten dozen eggs 
per hen per year. Yet it will take prac- 
tically no more feed to produce the eleven 
dozen eggs from the one flock than it will to 
produce ten dozen eggs from the other flock, 
and it certainly takes no more time to take 
care of the birds nor any more money in- 
vested in the equipment. 
One other advantage that the practical 
