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10. Should you breed from the fall and winter layers, or should 
you select for breeders those that wait until spring to lay? Why? 
11. Should you breed from the active, alert birds, or the inactive, 
lazy ones? Why? 
12. Should you breed from those that are early to rise and late to 
retire, or from the opposite? Why? 
13. Should you breed from the heavy eaters or feeders, or from those 
that eat comparatively little? Why? 
14. Other things being equal, would you prefer to breed from a 
male bred from a high-laying hen, or foam one bred from a medium 
layer? Why? 
15. What is meant by ‘‘stamina” and ‘‘vigor’’ in poultry? 
16. Which has the most to do with determining the number of 
eggs a hen will lay-——the breeding, the feeding or the housing? Why? 
17. What difference would there be in the probable number of 
eggs laid by a hen with lots of “capacity,” a six-finger abdomen, with a 
thick pelvic bone, 1 inch in thickness, and a hen with but little ‘‘capacity,”’ 
a two-finger abdomen, with a rather thin pelvic bone, 5/1. of an inch in 
thickness, both hens being in good condition? 
18. Everything else being equal, which moult first, as a rule, the 
good layers or the poor layers? 
19. What, if anything, has the width or the distance between the 
pelvic bones got to do with egg-production? 
20. Do we feed hens for the purpose of feeding eggs into their bodies, 
or do we feed them to develop the eggs which selection and breeding or 
Nature has placed within the hen? 
