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lore follows that live poultry buyers and shippers are enthusiastic 

 about maintaining the general purpose breeds at Standard weights. 



As egg producers. While breeders as a rule are partial to the 

 breed of their choice, and on every occasion champion that breed with 

 pardonable enthusiasm, it usually is conceded by atithorities who 

 have a broad view of the entire Held of breeds that the Single Comb 

 White Leghorn, taking all the specimens of the race as you find them 

 on the commercial egg farms of New York, New Jersey, eastern 



Four of the high laying: females in White Wyandottes, R. I. Reds, 

 Barred Rocks and White Leghorns at the 1919 International Egg 

 Laying competition, Connecticut Agricultural College. 



Pennsylvania and Connecticut, is the more fool-proof laying type and 

 the somewhat more economical consumer of feed. However, when 

 the American breeds are bred for egg production, that is, when an 

 intelligent effort is made to regulate the type and tendencies of the 

 progeny by carefully selecting the parent stock, hens and pullets of 

 the American breeds may be depended upon to make a creditable 

 showing in the egg-laying competitions, and it frequently does happen 

 that a pen of these birds wins the championship prize. 



The records made by four breeds at the sixth egg-laying contest 

 conducted at the Missouri Poultry Experiment Station, which covered 



