Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Table Records for the Mating ^ x CI. G. $. Mating Number. 01be _a5 CD Cj 5^ Percentof fertileeggs dyingin shell. a CD o3P-|,C1 0 (2 III 418 26 0 0466001300045 105 13 126 144652 103 1617 4 627194 3 419 251831373852232422 1 1200700n 2 420 •.-. 3 421 17 .=59 9 422 31 19391719203416 8458877479917784 5 423 4 424 6 425 3 426 3 427 3 428 !46 ! 2 20 1 5 429 3 357 Totals and 14 4 90 249 73 - Table 6. Hatching Records for Pure Cornish Indian Game Matings
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Table Records for the Mating ^ x CI. G. $. Mating Number. 01be _a5 CD Cj 5^ Percentof fertileeggs dyingin shell. a CD o3P-|,C1 0 (2 III 418 26 0 0466001300045 105 13 126 144652 103 1617 4 627194 3 419 251831373852232422 1 1200700n 2 420 •.-. 3 421 17 .=59 9 422 31 19391719203416 8458877479917784 5 423 4 424 6 425 3 426 3 427 3 428 !46 ! 2 20 1 5 429 3 357 Totals and 14 4 90 249 73 - Table 6. Hatching Records for Pure Cornish Indian Game Matings. ( S -^ $). Mating Number. i taO Eggsinfertile. Percentinfertile. CD CD Percentof fertileeggs dyingin shell. CD o Percenthatched. Number of different incubators. 430 431 321946324835264523541938 122122088974 3 11434601813173711 4 423 910 9 636 540 615 132452292227289725895044 27 12 21 22 36 24 20 1 15 5 6 19 877148717873773 75115055 54 482 3 433 3 434 4 435 3 436 3 437 3 438 3 439 4 440 3 567 4 Totals and 417 41 10 167 44 208 55 -. A B Fic. 78. Feather Chart, showing feathers from Tarred Rock female and Barredhybrid female. A. feathers from hybrids. B. feathers from Barred Rocks. POULTRY NOTES—1909. 93 From these tables the following points are to be noted:— 1. The fertility of the eggs during the hatching season inwhich these hybrids were raised was relatively very high for thepure bred birds, both Barred Plymouth Rocks and CornishIndian Games. The average percentage of eggs infertile fromall the Barred Plymouth Rock pullets used as breeders duringthat breeding season was ± * The average percent-age of eggs infertile for the pure Cornish Indian Game matingsshown in Table 6 above is only 10. In both cases (BarredRocks and Cornish) the figures given include all the eggsset throughout the whole of the hatching season from earlyin March until the middle of May. No data were omitted inmaking up these general averages. It is evident from these
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