. The Eastern poultryman . This Is the Oldest and Best Horticultural Family Magazine In the World Grower is not only for fruit growers; it is for every member of the family. Each number contains the following departments: Good Health, Women's Department, Poultry Department, Nature Studies, Small Fruit Depart- ment, Answers to Correspondents, Good Cheer Department, Youths' De- partment, Stories, Poetry, etc. Renew your subscription now, ask- ing for Green's Fruit Grower's within twelve months, thus beating all previous reported records in egg yield. This hen, known to the records as No. 617, is
. The Eastern poultryman . This Is the Oldest and Best Horticultural Family Magazine In the World Grower is not only for fruit growers; it is for every member of the family. Each number contains the following departments: Good Health, Women's Department, Poultry Department, Nature Studies, Small Fruit Depart- ment, Answers to Correspondents, Good Cheer Department, Youths' De- partment, Stories, Poetry, etc. Renew your subscription now, ask- ing for Green's Fruit Grower's within twelve months, thus beating all previous reported records in egg yield. This hen, known to the records as No. 617, is a small Plymouth Rock of pure strain, though not shaped according to the standard type. She is not only under the size demanded for perfect specimens of the breed, but her wing barring is im- perfect and her neck is too slim for her body. In spite of her defects, as viewed from the standpoint of the fancier, she is in actual performance the most valuable hen in the world, being capable under average Maine conditions of returning to her owners a net profit of 176 per cent a year. The figures, which have been passed upon and approved by expert book-keep- ers, are deduced from counting the aver- age cost of food and subtracting the total expense 01 subsistence from the income derived from eggs at the average price paid in Maine, which is eighteen cents a dozen. Prof. Gowell has devoted himself almost exclusively to breeding hens for a specific purpose for the last five years. Beginning with 1,000 hens divided into flocks of about twenty hens and two cockerels to a pen, he has employed trap nests and been able to get at the exact performance of every bird. The first year the best record was 220 eggs, laid by a Plymouth Rock pullet. There were eleven other Plymouth Rock hens that exceeded 200 eggs each the first year, though of the 500 White Wyan- dottes only three reached the 200 egg class. The next season the most prolific hens in their respective classes were put in pens togethe
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