AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
per hen. Anything above fourteen dozen eggs per 
year from each hen may well be classed as extraor- 
dinary. 
There is a small flock to be found here and there 
over America which has averaged two hundred or 
more eggs per year from each hen, and there are 
a few hens with individual records of as high as 
two hundred and fifty to two hundred and sixty 
eggs per year; but these records were made in the 
hands of skilled poultrymen who not only knew 
exactly how to feed and manage, but these flocks 
were the result of years of careful selection and 
breeding from only the best layers by means of 
trap-nest records. The poultry keeper whose flock 
averages more than one hundred eggs per head per 
annum is engaged in profitable work, and the man 
whose egg record shows an average of more than 
one hundred and forty eggs per hen in twelve 
months has cause to be well pleased with both his 
fowls and himself as attendant. 
Leg bands are inexpensive aluminium or brass 
bands which go around the leg of a fowl much the 
same as a ring on the human finger. They are 
indispensable to the fancier and a valuable aid to 
every poultry raiser. The bands contain numbers 
or initials and enable the poultry raiser to keep a 
valuable record of the age and breeding or laying 
performance of every fowl on the place. Thus, old 
and unprofitable specimens can be weeded out. 
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