CHAPTER XXXI 



Egg Records 

 February ist, igo8 to June 30th, igii. 



Dates Average Production Average 



Number of Eggs Price 



of Hens per doz. 



Feb. I, 1908 to Jan. 31, igop 2,040 338,976 .5066 



Feb. I, ipog to June 30, 1910 2,811 709,836 .47125 



July I, 1910 to June 30, 191 1 4,723 612,000 .4618 



AVERAGE FOR FIRST TEN MONTHS OF PULLET LAYING IN FLOCKS OF 

 FIFTEEN HUNDRED. 



1909 143.25 



1910 I4S.II 



I9II 146.23 



On examination of this Egg Record it will be no- 

 ticed that in the average number of eggs laid by the 

 pullets, in flocks of fifteen hundred, there have been 

 three gains, and in analyzing these averages it must 

 be remembered that these are results obtained, not by 

 the handling of a few pullets most carefully selected 

 to produce a record, but of thousands, and the ad- 

 vance of three eggs in the average is therefore a re- 

 markable gain. 



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