. 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 . Interior of a House for Winter Layers, Showing the Roost and RooSt Platform with Curtain to let Down in Front. We have often wished that we could afford to give a pen of hens a fair show for a full year's record. We feel con- fident the results would be such as to establish the fact that careful breeding and good care easily produce a flock of 200- egg hens. When we first began breeding poultry we found a very great variation in


. 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 . Interior of a House for Winter Layers, Showing the Roost and RooSt Platform with Curtain to let Down in Front. We have often wished that we could afford to give a pen of hens a fair show for a full year's record. We feel con- fident the results would be such as to establish the fact that careful breeding and good care easily produce a flock of 200- egg hens. When we first began breeding poultry we found a very great variation in the hens as layers, some actually not laying fifty eggs in a year and one hen, which was a beauty and won second prize at the poultry show, was practically worthless as a layer. We found such hens fine eating on the table, but chose the best layers for breeders, and today the most of our breeding hens have records of from twenty-


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