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11. What is the most practical method of handling broody hens? 
12. Name the two most important considerations in summer management. 
13. What is the profitable age of birds as layers? 
14. Discuss the selection of layers for the second year. 
15. Discuss management during the fall molt. 
16. What is a good egg yield? 
17. Name three factors whichtend toward improvement in egg production. 
18. Are egg records valuable? Why? 
19. -Of what use are china nest eggs? 
20. Discuss the vice of egg eating and state how it may be controlled. 
References.—The Yearly Record of Three Flocks, by H. H. Wing, Cornell 
Bulletin 211. A Record of Six Hundred Hens, by Horace Atwood, West 
Virginia Bulletin 115. Cost of Egg Production, by Henry H. Wing, Cornell 
Bulletin 204. Winter Egg Production, by H. R. Lewis, Circular, New Jersey 
Board of Agriculture. Poultry Keeping for Egg Production, by W. P. Brooks, 
Massachusetts Bulletin 122. Feeding and Management of Poultry for Egg 
Production, by J. S. Jeffrey, North Carolina Bulletin 211. Essentials of 
Profitable Egg Production, by H. R. Lewis, New Jersey Bulletin 244. 
