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tising to the contrary notwithstanding-, breeders of prize winner.- gel 

 plenty of culls and breeders of -JOO-egg lien- sometimes yet more poor 

 layers than they want. Flocks can be found that have averaged over 

 ooo eggs for each lien per year. Where can we find the flock that will 

 average enough points to win tirsl prize at the Boston -how reckoning 

 the "heller birds that were left at home?" That word ''strain" is a poor 

 one to bet money on al the present slage of the game. There are honest 

 strains, lots of them, but contemporary advertising shows that the term 

 can be applied to almost anything by people who do not even know the 

 real meaning of the word. 



The :>00-egg hen is not a creature of some modern pipe-dream. In 

 1K7!> I. K. Felch sold a Light Brahma hen (o Jeremiah 15. P. Ladd. 

 The third day after she was purchased she began (o lay and produced 

 :!1S eggs in :!.'!:! consecutive days, when she stopped. The next year she 

 laid i:!:> eggs in less lhan six months when she was sold. Through the 

 kindness of "Mr. Felch I am able to give the following affidavit of the 

 record of this remarkable hen. 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 



This is to certify that the Light Brahma hen, known as "Rebecca No. 

 3935," which I bought of I. K. Felch January ist, 1876 commenced to lav 

 on the third day of said January and laid three hundred and eighteen eggs 

 in three hundred and thirty-three consecutive days, when she stopped. 

 She began to la}' again on the first day of February and up to July 28th, 

 when I sold her, she had laid one hundred and thirty-three egg-. She 

 never wanted to sit while I owned her. This statement is made from 

 actual record and is true in every particular. 

 / „„„! I. (Signed) Jerkmiah B. P. Ladd. 



This is to certify that I am cognizant of the facts in relation to the lay- 

 ing qualities of the hen "Rebecca No. 3935" as above, having handled 

 her n part of the time covered in the above certificate of her owner, and 

 I have personal knowledge that the foregoing statement is a true and 

 correct account of the eggs laid by the aforesaid hen. 



J „ p „i ! (Signed) H. C. Fkh.vx. 



I seal I 



Ksskx S. S. December 30, 187S. 



Personally appeared the above named, Jeremiah B. P. Ladd and Henry 



C. Fegan, whom f know to be reliable and entitled to credit, and made 



oath to the truth of the above statements by them made, this day, before 



me. 



(Signed I (tARIinkr P. Ladd, Justice of the Peace. 



