HISTORY OP ANCONAS 
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T. A. Ell'ott, Brooks, Maine, claims 
the champion early laying pullet, an 
Ancona that laid her first egg when 
eighty-eight days old. 
A. L. Helvin, Norfolk, Va., had nine 
out of eleven February hatched An¬ 
cona pullets laying when seventeen 
weeks old. 
Jeff H. Allen, Springfield, Mo., had 
several Ancona pullets laying at six¬ 
teen weeks old. 
C. A. Newton, Vassar, Mich., had one 
of his Ancona pullets lay in the coop 
while at the poultry show. She was 
three months and fifteen days old. 
Mrs. J. F. McMurray, Van Buren, 
Ohio, had April hatched Ancona pullets 
weigh four pounds each in November. 
They were laying at four and one-half 
months old. 
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J. W. Gardner of Summerfield, Fla., 
reports his Ancona pullets laying at 
four months and one day old. 
Charles W. Hall, Millbury, Ohio, has 
42 Ancona hens, two and three years 
old, that in ten months laid 6,967 eggs. 
Several breeders in different parts 
of the country have reported that they 
had Ancona hens that by actual trap- 
nest records laid two full sized eggs in 
one day. In several instances the 
same birds repeated the performance. 
It did not interfere with these same 
hens laying the regular egg-a-day on 
other days. Two names and addresses 
are here given, of well known and re¬ 
liable Ancona breeders who have sever¬ 
al such Ancona hens in their flocks— 
H. Steffensmeyer, 2112 Calvert St., 
Lincoln, Nebraska; and Robert Elliott, 
240 Regal Ave., St. Vital, Manitoba, 
Canada. 
