. Egg money, how to increase it; a book of complete and reliable information on the more profitable production of eggs on the city lot, the village acre and the farm . Comfdrtable Quarters for the Housewife's Fowls, Banked with Corn Stalks and Equipped with an Improvised Open Shed. ing flock) is almost sure to have some hens in it that are lay- ing 200 or more eggs in the year; but, if the breeder has no way of knowing which hen it is that is his or her best layer, there is very little chance of improving the laying qualities of the flock. The only practical way in which improvement in the lay
. Egg money, how to increase it; a book of complete and reliable information on the more profitable production of eggs on the city lot, the village acre and the farm . Comfdrtable Quarters for the Housewife's Fowls, Banked with Corn Stalks and Equipped with an Improvised Open Shed. ing flock) is almost sure to have some hens in it that are lay- ing 200 or more eggs in the year; but, if the breeder has no way of knowing which hen it is that is his or her best layer, there is very little chance of improving the laying qualities of the flock. The only practical way in which improvement in the laying can be accomplished is by careful selection and mating. Of course care is necessarily limited in its effect. One can give a scrub cow the very best of food and care, but she will not begin to give product in the milk and butter w^hich the same care would bring from a well-bred Jersey of a heavy milking strain. Just so with the laying hen^ a flock of hens which for generations have been selected and mated to produce superior layers will respond much more
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