. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m each other at the top ofthe egg- In the space between is airwith much acid in it, for the use ofthe chick, as it forms. It sometimeshappens that there are two \ white oi the egg is connectedwith the yolk by two threads, or con-duits, which conduct nourishmentto the chick during the incubationperiod. A young hen will begin to laywhen a year old. It is b\ that timeprovided by Nature with an ovarywhich contains the germs of no lessthan six hundred eggs. The hn ingdiminishes after the fourth year, andis almost entirely f
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m each other at the top ofthe egg- In the space between is airwith much acid in it, for the use ofthe chick, as it forms. It sometimeshappens that there are two \ white oi the egg is connectedwith the yolk by two threads, or con-duits, which conduct nourishmentto the chick during the incubationperiod. A young hen will begin to laywhen a year old. It is b\ that timeprovided by Nature with an ovarywhich contains the germs of no lessthan six hundred eggs. The hn ingdiminishes after the fourth year, andis almost entirely finished by thesixth year ; the hen has then fulfilled her duty in 1901 amountetl in \-alue to 353,920,000to Nature. But this is not quick enough for rubles — in round numbers 5223,000,000, andbreeders of the present daw Maste and hurry it increases every year. Russia is alread) soprevail even here, and artificial culture has strong in this particular that it is on the pointenormously increased the number of chickens of supplanting Italy and Austria in supplying. .\ 15 k All MA hatched daily and thus the production of eggs, the trade in which appears to be illimitable. In reading the statistics of different countries we are astounded at the enormous demand for this product, and the supply does not keep pace with the demand. In the Netherlands, for instance, that small country which is by no means unsuited for the production of eggs, the deficit last year was seventy million. Denmark may serve as a model informed as to the best methods of managing to the lesser countries in the raising of chickens, the inhabitants of their poultry yards. In the It exports yearly about four million dollars first place, they ought to know that hens when worth; and the husbandmen profit by it. laying and brooding should, as far as possible,
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