. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . N breeding poultry such wonderful changes have been made in form and feather that it seems to have been demonstrated that the laws of inher- itance and transmission are as true with poultry as with cattle, sheep and horses. Many at- / tempts have been made to improve egg produc- ^ tion by breeding. This work has, for the most part, been by flocks rather then by individuals, much the same as
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . N breeding poultry such wonderful changes have been made in form and feather that it seems to have been demonstrated that the laws of inher- itance and transmission are as true with poultry as with cattle, sheep and horses. Many at- / tempts have been made to improve egg produc- ^ tion by breeding. This work has, for the most part, been by flocks rather then by individuals, much the same as if we would attempt to improve the milk production of the lierd by basing the breeding upon the milk or butter produc- tion of the herd without reference to the milk of the individual animal. Our work is based upon the individual records obtained by the use of trap nests devised by us. The houses are specially constructed for the purpose, and while numerous problems have arisen in connection with the work, and other side ques- tions have been studied, nothing has been allowed to interfere â with the original proposition of breeding for increased egg production. At the time we began this work we were carrying three breedsâBarred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes and Light Brahmas. With the particular strains that we had of these breeds, the Barred Plymouth Rock seemed the most promising and the work here reported is with this breed. As the New England market demands large, dark-brown eggs, only birds laying such eggs have been used in the breeding. FIFTY-TWO TRAP NESTS WERE CONSTRUCTED In recognition of the necessity for improvement of the egg producing capacities of hens, the work was taken up, and November 1, 1898, two hundred and sixty April and May Jiatched pullets were put into breeding pens and records kept of their individual productions for a year. This was done with much certainty by use of the trap nest boxes described as follows in the station report for 1898: "
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