BREEDING 



149 



nomical gains. With the rapid maturing bird, egg produc- 

 tion comes eariier and is hkely to be more persistent. Rice' 



Table XVII. 



Total 5,130 4,445 3,447 



Grand total 



Average production per hen . 



Total 



5,150 

 5,130 



10,280 

 171.3 



4,498 

 4,445 



3,460 

 3,447 



8,943 6,907 

 149.05 115.1 



found from a study of the trap-nest egg records, covering 

 several years' work at Cornell University, that it was the 



' Cornell Countryman, March, 1913. 



