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Title: Eggs and egg farms; devoted to increased egg production, contributed to by expert authorities and successful breeders, who furnish life-long experiences in the production of eggs, methods of feeding, market requirements, and desirable breeds for the farm and fancier ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Poultry Eggs
Publisher: Quincy, Ill., The Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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amount is small,and when confined to such a space it is necessary to limitthe number of fowls in a pen to ten or a dozen. The mostimportant requirement has not been mentioned, that is thewater. Watch the hen come off the nest after laying andsee her make for the water, and you will understand thenecessity for pure v,ater and lots of it. In the winter, if your house is dry, the fowls will keepthemselves warm during the day if you feed little and often,and make them work. At night care must be exercised tosee that they have a warm corner for a roosting place. Hatch your chicks as early as possible, but certainly notlater than May, and if properly cared for you will have win-ter layers, and receive all the way from 25 to 50 cents adozen for your eggs. If you allow the hen to use her ownsweet will she will probably incubate in June, July and Aug-ust, and you will have lots of worry, lots of squabs, and anyamount of expense feeding during winter chicks that bringyou no return. R. H. ESSEX.
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that i-s Z lbs e puUets (sisters) that weigh 2 lbs. 8 oz■ighS^ to 10^ lbs. each.—I. K. Felcj LIGHT BRAHMA EGGS. EGG YIELDING CAPACITIY OF HENS. The Use of the Trap Nest Shows Great Variation in the Egg Production of a Flock—Work of Two Hundred and Thirty-six Hens During a Year—Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes and Light Brahmas Undergoing Experiment. By PROFESSOR G. M. GOWELL, of the Maine Experiment Station. Vf2viB N recognition of the necessity for improvement ofHie egg producing capacities of hens, the work wastaken up, and November 1, 1898, two hundred andsixty April and May hatched pullets were put intobreeding pens and records kept of their individual produc-tions for a year. This was done with much certainty by useof the trap nest boxes described as follows in the stationreport for 1898: We constructed a nest that proved so satisfactory thatwe placed fifty-two of them in the breeding house. * * *The boxes are placed four in a bank (Pig. I.) and slide inand out like drawers

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