132 POULTRY BREEDING 
At the time these experiments were made the market 
price of eggs in North Carolina was 1314 cents per dozen. 
Taking this price as the basis from which to compute 
values, and assuming that the eggs from the Single Comb 
Brown Leghorn pullets were worth this, the following 
table would represent the value of the eggs laid during 
this experiment, if they had been sold according to their 
weight : ’ 
TABLE SHOWING VALUE OF EGGS IN PROPORTION TO THEIR WEIGHT. 
Relative Value above 
BREED. value per doz. market price, 
cents. | per cent. 
Single Comb Brown Leghorn pullets....... ..........0. 18.5 | 
Single Comb Brown Leghorn hens..............608. s+ 16.3 i 20.7 
Silver Wyandotte pullets...... ies us Blecerisleuetushve aed navoaetices 16.6 | 23. 
Late-hatched Barred Plymouth Rock hens....... ..... 17.6 30.4 
White Wyandotte Lensinc.. a: isos sincvi sn pens dew sencwecivn 17.6 | 30.4 
White Wyandotte pullets............00 ccc cee ee eee eee wees 17.7 | 30.4 
White Plymouth Rock pullets. ........0000006 ceeeeseees WF 30.4 
‘Buff Cochin hens 17.8 : 31.8 
Black Langshan pullets 1.8 31.8 
Barred Plymouth Rock pullets....... 6-2 ......5. 005 se | 18.3 34.8 
Barred Plymouth Rock hens....... ...0 ...... 4. ene 19.7 46. 
Buff Cochin and Black Langshin pullets................ 19.9 47.2 
Black (Minorca PUlletsssicisa ssctsmnaes, aacat cat aero 19.9 S28 
Blaek Taneshan HENS ssid oi odeng seca sevbae aon! bo ae anaay 20.44 51.4 
Light Brahma; henSens veces gevaceaasers xeeer ge en #5 21.6 60. 
Pekin ducks, young and o]d............ 06 eee eee ee vee 26.7 oT 8 
The table shows how much difference there is in the 
value of eggs, but it should not be taken as giving the 
real size of the eggs of the different breeds mentioned. 
For example, there are strains of Single Comb Brown 
Leghorns that lay eves as large as those of the Plymouth 
Rock or Wyandotte. So far Iowa is the only state that 
