108 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 199. 



Table V. — "Non-broody" Lines, 1917-18. 



[Daughters of males No. 3003, No. 5470 and No. 9752.] 



conclusion is supported by the ratios observed in other matings which 

 have already been commented upon. However, the amount of broodi- 

 ness in the first laying year is much reduced compared with the flock from 

 which it originated, the data on this point being given in Table VH, Table 

 VIII, item 4, and Table IX. A comparison with the published results 

 of the laying contest at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 

 shows that our foundation stock had broodiness developed to a higher 

 degree than any of the breeds studied at Storrs, and that our non-broody 



Table VI. — Broodiness in the Several Breeds at the Storrs Contest of 

 1915-16, compared with Three Flocks at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



