164 EGGS AND POULTRY 
VALUE OF TRAP-NESTING 
Trap-nesting hens, in order to locate good 
and the poor layers, is probably the only way 
surely to build up a strain of heavy layers, 
because in a large flock it is very difficult to 
recognize the hens that are laying and impos- 
sible to know just how 
often they are laying, 
oe carr ceeee without trap-nesting. 
8 44 “-| If a flock is trap- 
nested, the poor layers 
can be weeded out, 
leaving a flock of all 
good layers from 
; : | which the best can be 
i‘ : ~ selected for breeders, 
Box made of 3-16 boards : 
for delivering cartons of thus developing a 
eggs—capacity 16 doz. heavy laying strain, 
and greatly increasing the average number 
of eggs laid by the flock. 
Trap-nesting takes time, however, and un 
til a 500 hen plant is more than a one man 
affair; that is, one man doing all the work, 
of every kind, there are some forms of work 
that have to be omitted, otherwise it results 
in nothing having the proper attention. 
When the time arrives that you can afford 
to hire help then you can start trap-nesting 
your flock. It will pay. 
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