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fully increased; where the principal aim is to get the maximum 

 egg yield, it is entirely possible to bring the average up to 

 200 eggs per hen per year. True, there are other things 

 besides breeding which enter in; the hens must be properly 

 reared so as to have rugged constitutions and their keeper 

 must be an expert on the lines of feeding, care and housing. 



Interior of a House for Winter Layers, Showing the Roost and RooSt 

 Platform with Curtain to let Down in Front. 



We have often wished that we could afford to give a pen 

 of hens a fair show for a full year's record. We feel con- 

 fident the results would be such as to establish the faict that 

 careful breeding and good care easily produce a flock of 200- 

 egg hens. When we first began breeding poultry we found a 

 very great variation in the hens as layers, some actually 

 not laying fifty eggs in a year and one hen, which was a beauty 

 and won second prize at the poultry show, was practically 

 worthless as a layer. We found such hens fine eating on 

 the table, but chose the best layers for' breeders, and today 

 the most of our breeding hens have records of from twenty- 



