The Farm-poultry . 8<•:_-- which weighed(56 ounces. A select-ed dnzen of these eggs weighed 30 ounces. Three hens ami three pullets mated with a?•?ven-eisbths Indian Game cock, not a bird inthe lot under ten pounds when the mating wasmade late in February, laid in the week 20Egg« which weighed 02 ounces. The heaviestdozen of these eggs also weighed 30 ounces. Five Silver Gray Dorking hens and pulletslaid that week 2i eggs, two of which weresmall and malformed. The other 24 eggsweighed 58 ounces. I have never weighed theDorkings, but should judge them six to eightpounds. The Brabmas in the s
The Farm-poultry . 8<•:_-- which weighed(56 ounces. A select-ed dnzen of these eggs weighed 30 ounces. Three hens ami three pullets mated with a?•?ven-eisbths Indian Game cock, not a bird inthe lot under ten pounds when the mating wasmade late in February, laid in the week 20Egg« which weighed 02 ounces. The heaviestdozen of these eggs also weighed 30 ounces. Five Silver Gray Dorking hens and pulletslaid that week 2i eggs, two of which weresmall and malformed. The other 24 eggsweighed 58 ounces. I have never weighed theDorkings, but should judge them six to eightpounds. The Brabmas in the small matings fromwhich eggs were weighed separately were alloverweight when weighed late in February,the hen* goina from ten to eleven and one-halfpounds, and the pullets from nine and one-fourth to ten and one-half pound*. In thel irier pens of Brahma hens and pullets are„«<»uie birds weighing not over seven anil one- half to eight pounds, but most run eight andone-half to nine and one-half A SILVER GRAY DORKING COCK. Here are a few :is on fertility. To get afew early pullets, pullets that would beginlaying in November, and perhaps give me achance to have a full winters eggs record froma pen in my cold house, I made two one was an April hatched cockerel weigh-ing twelve pounds, and the five June hatchedpullets meutioned above. In the other was abrother of these pullets and seven May pullets,the eggs of which are noted above as havingbeen weighed. Looking at the two matings in the yards,and especially considering the want of ageand the awkwardness of the June hatchedmale, I felt in doubtas to whether anysatisfactory fertilitywould come fromhis pen. This maleweighed at eightmonths old just agood ten pen containingthe other male 1 feltquite sure would givegood fertility. Imagine my sur-prise then when hav-ing set one sitting ofeggs from each pen, Ifound only 1 infertileegg in 13 from theyounger males only 3 fertileeggs in 13
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