CHAPTER XVI 



BREEDING FOR EGGS 



No part of poultry culture is more fascinating 

 than breeding the stock to bring it nearer and 

 nearer our ideals of perfection. This is possible 

 in small plants if certain essentials are prowded: 

 Poultry from which we intend to breed should 

 have ample opporttinity for exercise whUe growing, 

 should have ample space for fresh air during the 

 winter months, and should eat a rather less con- 

 centrated diet than lajdng stock. The regular 

 mash, with half the quantity of beef scraps, would 

 make a good diet for the principal feed, and the 

 scratch grain may be of the same mixture. 



It is taken for granted that most people who 

 keep small flocks wish to develop egg-laying quali- 

 ties above all others. If we wish to breed, we must 

 have a definite object toward which we bend our 

 efforts, and as egg-production is by far the most 



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