100 



POULTRY CXTLTTJRB 



them to the production situation by setting them back a 

 month — ^and the average of these three sets of percentages is 

 given as a general average of the percentage distribution of 

 egg production. 



In the next table is given the actual egg production month 

 by month when different amounts of yearly production are 

 distributed according to the percentages established. 



In the examination of records of pens and flocks making high 

 averages it is found that as a rule production is more evenly 

 distributed through the year than in the general average, 

 and especially that egg production is heavy through the simi- 

 mer and early fall. In no case either in this or in the next 

 competition at Storrs did a pen approximating an averge of 

 200 eggs per hen to as high as 28 and 30 eggs a month. Indi- 

 vidual hens may do so; some must when averages for 10 hens 

 go to 25 and 26. In the extreme]}^ high averages good laying — 

 far better than usual for the season — is the rule at all times, 

 except the short period in spring when nearly all hens lay 

 well; but where egg production runs at averages of 120 to 

 150 or 160 per hen per year the result is usually due more to 

 good laying in summer than to good laying in early winter. 



RESULTS IN BREEDING FROM UNSELECTED BIRDS 



The production of unselected White Leghorns varies widely 

 in different years as influenced by the environment; but from 

 all available records it averages about 130 for the first year, 

 120 for the second and less than 110 for the third, drops to 

 about 85 in the fourth, and falls about 10 eggs a year after 

 this up to the eighth year. Selected flocks have averaged 



