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A REVOLUTION IN EGG PRODUCTION 



favorably with the fall and winter of 1911-1912, and conclu- 

 sively proves the value and aid of a longer business day. 

 The following table will show this quite clearly: 



Adult Fowls 



Fall and winter of 1911-12. 

 No hens in this flock over 20 

 months old at the end of this 

 period. 



No. of Hen No. of 

 Days Eggs 



Sept 1,434 545 



Oct 1,457 367 



Nov 1,410 201 



Dec 1,445 273 



Jan 1,426 93 



Per 

 Cent 



38 % 

 25.19% 



14.25% 



18.89% 



6.52% 



Totals ..7,172 1,479 20-62% 



Adult Fowls 



Fall and winter of 1914-15. 

 Some hens in this record over 

 454 years old at the end of this 

 period. 



Xo. of Hen 

 Days 



Sept 2,969 



Oct 3,004 



Nov 2,822 



Dec 2,826 



Jan 2,790 



Totals .14,411 4,514 31.32% 



When it is remembered that the reasons, previously given, 

 to show the advantages of a longer business day, demonstrate 

 that these reasons merely add one (and that a heretofore neg- 

 lected and essential) factor to the summer conditions, neces- 

 sary to good egg production, the above comparison will serve 

 to emphasize the great importance of this factor in profitable 

 poultry keeping. 



Not over thirty-seven per cent of the adult fowls in the 

 fall and winter of 1914-1915 were of the same age as the adult 

 fowls in the same period of 1911-1912 — the other sixty-three 

 per cent had a handicap of one, two, and some of them three 

 years, to overcome. 



It is reasonable to suppose that, if fowls of such ages 

 were able to outstrip their youthful competitors during the 

 moulting season and in the winter months, because of the 

 advantages of a longer business day, the young stock would 

 have made a much better showing than they did, for this same 

 period, if the length of their working day had been equalized. 



Taking these comparisons under consideration, the two 

 hundred egg goal, previously mentioned as being possible, 

 does not seem at all unattainable for whole flocks of young 

 and vigorous birds under "A Revolution in Egg Production." 



From an average of one hundred seventy-eight eggs per 

 annum to an average of two hundred eggs per annum does 



